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Title: The Jesus Puzzle. Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? : Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus by Earl Doherty ISBN: 0-9686014-0-5 Publisher: Canadian Humanist Publications Pub. Date: 19 October, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $14.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (67 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Analysis
Comment: The title tells you that this will be an inflammatory work in the eyes of many. However, anyone who has tried to make sense of the New Testament--without the structured guidance of one of the hundred Christian sects that have come up with a hundred different explanations--will find this work valuable. I also recommend Doherty's website (just Google his name), which includes among other things a short novel about modern investigators researching this topic. With such a controversial topic, you can't get a good overview from just one author. Doherty is easily the most skeptical author; while Thomas Cahill is essentially a literalist. Writers like Mack, Wells, Wilson and Spong all provide a different slant on how The New Testament came into being. If you read enough on this topic, I believe that there is one inescapable conclusion: Paul's Christ of Faith is not the Synoptic Gospel's historical Jesus.
Rating: 5
Summary: The New Best Fit.
Comment: For anyone who is attempting to uncover the origins of Christianity, this book is a must read. Ten years ago the well accepted phrase among liberal bible scholars was "There is no serious scholar today who doubts Jesus ever existed." With the publication of G. A. Wells' book that offered an argument of a mythological Jesus based on an absense of evidence, scholars began to turn their collective heads. In the end, however, the majority concluded an argument from the negative is not enough. The revolution of Christianity needs a viable explanation and the best explanation is a man named Jesus. Hence, Jesus as an actual man was axiomatic...but who Jesus was and what Jesus said and did were constantly debated. Enter Earl Doherty. Exceptionally well researched, incredibly accurate and lucid to the most intricate concepts of modern theological debate Doherty, a layman, did what none of the pre-supposing scholars thought possible. He deviced a better theory that answered all the open ended problems, without having to dispose of any 'ugly' facts. The argument presented in this book is now recognized by many - and likely soon to be most - biblical scholars as the single best argument for the origin of Christianity. And until it is replaced with a better supported and more concise historical argument (which in all honesty may never happen) an honest truth seeker has no choice but to seriously consider the possibility that Jesus never existed. Doherty's argument is not air-tight but to date it is the best we've got. As a person with a Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Religion, I've heard them all - his facts are accurate, his understanding of the debated issues is very good, he has an argument to be reckoned with.
Rating: 2
Summary: Problems abound in the text
Comment: Jesus was a real person. This book argues differently. Here we see evidence presented that Jesus was a fictional character. But the evidence is simply to large to the contrary. The best evidence of Jesus is written by Josephus, a Jewish scholar who wrote in Latin and spoke of a man named Jesus, who created a 'tribe' of Christians. Josephus served in the Jewish war in AD 70 and he would have been in contact with people that actually knew Jesus. Beyond this evidence is the biblical evidence. The Book of Matthew clearly traces the lineage of Jesus back to King David. Why trace the lineage of a person who was but a myth? The tracing of ancestry was a typical Jewish trait to establish the reliability of Prophecy and therefore it is normal that such would have been done for someone real, not a made up character. Beyond this evidence is the evidence from even the Qur'an which although it disagrees with the gospels nevertheless agrees that Jesus was a person. Thus is it just no logical to argue that Jesus was a myth. Certainly many of the acts of Jesus may be considered legend but the reality of a man named Jesus is an established fact.
Seth J. Frantzman
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Title: The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Acharya S ISBN: 0932813747 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God? by Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy ISBN: 0609807986 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read by Tim C. Leedom ISBN: 0939040158 Publisher: Truth Seeker Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Jesus Myth by George Albert Wells ISBN: 0812693922 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Dark Side of Christian History by Helen Ellerbe ISBN: 0964487349 Publisher: Morningstar Books Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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