A History of ‘Jesus Denial’ - The End is Nigh (for the godman!)
Demolishing the historicity of Jesus – A History
“For more than 200 years a minority of courageous scholars have dared to question the story of Jesus. Despite the risks of physical assault, professional ruin and social opprobrium, they have seriously doubted the veracity of the gospel saga, have peeled away the layers of fraud and deceit and eventually have challenged the very existence of the godman.” ~Kenneth Humphreys
See the massive timeline list:
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/scholars.html
A TIMELINE OF JESUS MYTHICISM
http://www.mythicistpapers.com/timeline-of-jesus-mythicism/
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
http://www.amazon.com/Freethinkers-American-Secularism-Susan-Jacoby/dp/0805077766
Many christian apologists try to claim that the discovery that jesus was a fictional character is some new extraordinary and wild conspiracy theory without any merit. Even “if” the discovery was new, it wouldn’t take away from the validity of the findings. New discoveries are made all the time and they are not automatically moot like many christians desperately claim.
Many discoveries concerning the fraud of christianity began during the latter half of the Age of Enlightenment (between 1650-1815); after the fall of The Roman Empire in the 15th Century and the official end of The Holy Roman Empire in 1806.
In 1842 (172 years ago), the first openly public author: professor Bruno Bauer, came forward with this discovery. Even in the mid-19th century, such a discovery was very dangerous. Bruno was destroyed and removed from his position. If anyone would of came forward 40 years earlier, they may had been executed.
For an example of the church power, in the 1300s, John Wycliffe translated the bible from Latin to English. These translations were banned and burned as quickly as church officials could get their hands on them. People found to have a copy were subject to burning at the stake. In 1428, 44 years after Wycliffe’s death, church officials dug up his bones, burned them, and scattered the ashes on the River Swift.
This was a very dangerous time for free thinkers and truth. Various Holy Crusades ran between 718-1456, the christian Dark Ages ended around the year 1000, the christian Witch Trials began in 1692 and various christian Inquisitions persisted until the mid-19th century.
Often times, christians and apologists brag about the discovery of fictional jesus, not occurring until 1842 and use this claimed “late” date in order to try to delegitimize the findings. It could have came out earlier but it would have been very likely that the scholars and their work would have been incinerated. 1842 was already a very early date for such an “illegal” truth. Scholars may have just been waiting for a safe time to introduce the discovery that jesus was a fictional character.
~Dishonest Bart D. Ehrman Quotes:
“I don’t know any serious or reputable scholar that doubts a historical Jesus existed.”
“ALL New Testament scholars unanimously agree that Jesus existed.”
Interviewer: “There are historians that disagree with you right?”
Bart D Ehrman: “No. None that I ever heard of.”
Interviewer: “Oh really?”
Bart D Ehrman: “Well, not serious historians.”
Is Bart incompetent, ignorant, delusional or dishonest, when it comes to jesus belief?
How could he not know about the discovery that jesus was a fictional character?
QUOTES FROM A FEW SCHOLARS ABOUT JESUS
http://exposingreligionblog.tumblr.com/post/20641891493
~Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth: An Evaluation of Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist?
This book is written by: Richard Carrier (Author), Ph.D. (Author), D.M. Murdock (Author), Earl Doherty (Author), René Salm (Author), David Fitzgerald (Author), Robert M. Price (Author, Editor), Frank R. Zindler (Author, Editor)
When New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman published DID JESUS EXIST? THE HISTORICAL ARGUMENT FOR JESUS OF NAZARETH, he not only attempted to prove the historical reality of a man called *Jesus of Nazareth*, he sharply criticized scholars who have sought to develop a new paradigm in the study of Christian origins scholars who have claimed that Jesus was a mythical, not historical, figure, and that the traditional, Jesus-centered paradigm for studying the origins of Christianity must be replaced by an actual science of Christian origins. In the present volume, some of those scholars respond to Ehrman’s treatment of their research and findings, showing how he has either ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented their arguments. They present evidence that *Jesus of Nazareth* was no more historical than Osiris or Thor. Several contributors question not only the historicity of *Jesus of NAZARETH,* they present evidence that the site of present-day Nazareth was not inhabited at the time Jesus and his family should have been living there.
http://www.amazon.com/Ehrman-Quest-Historical-Jesus-Nazareth/dp/1578840198
Debunking Bart Ehrman’s belief in jesus that he is attempting to call a fact, with his newest book:
http://exposingreligionblog.tumblr.com/post/20640153264
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http://www.abebooks.com/books/Textbooks/
https://shopping.yahoo.com/books
http://www.betterworldbooks.com
http://bookstore.mbsdirect.net/webster.htm
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The first 3 books that I recommend as an introduction are The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation and then Nailed. These books are very well written and they are real easy to read and understand. I list books all the way back to the 1600’s. These older books are great for collections but many are outdated. Newer books have built off of these classics and included modern scholarship and discoveries.
For most authors, I provided a link to their biographies and credentials, as well as links to their works.
~Sam Harris
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated….Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say."—Natalie Angier, New York Times
In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs—even when these beliefs inspire the worst human atrocities. While warning against the encroachment of organized religion into world politics, Harris draws on insights from neuroscience, philosophy, and Eastern mysticism to deliver a call for a truly modern foundation for ethics and spirituality that is both secular and humanistic. Winner of the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction.
http://www.amazon.com/End-Faith-Religion-Terror-Future/dp/0393327655
Letter to a Christian Nation
From the new afterword by the author: Humanity has had a long fascination with blood sacrifice. In fact, it has been by no means uncommon for a child to be born into this world only to be patiently and lovingly reared by religious maniacs, who believe that the best way to keep the sun on its course or to ensure a rich harvest is to lead him by tender hand into a field or to a mountaintop and bury, butcher, or burn him alive as offering to an invisible God. The notion that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that his death constitutes a successful propitiation of a “loving” God is a direct and undisguised inheritance of the superstitious bloodletting that has plagued bewildered people throughout history…
http://www.amazon.com/Letter-Christian-Nation-Sam-Harris/dp/0307278778
~David Fitzgerald
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fitzgerald_(author)
Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All
Why would anyone think Jesus never existed? Isn’t it perfectly reasonable to accept that he was a real first century figure? As it turns out, no. NAILED sheds light on ten beloved Christian myths, and, with evidence gathered from historians across the theological spectrum, shows how they point to a Jesus Christ created solely through allegorical alchemy of hope and imagination; a messiah transformed from a purely literary, theological construct into the familiar figure of Jesus - in short, a purely mythic Christ.
http://www.amazon.com/Nailed-Christian-Myths-Jesus-Existed/dp/0557709911
Skepticon 3 "Examining the Existence of a Historical Jesus”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvleOBYTrDE
~Kenneth Humphreys
Kenneth Humphreys is one of the leading experts in exposing the jesus fiction. He holds post-graduate qualifications from two British universities and taught for many years in the UK, Turkey and Papua New Guinea; including a Senior Lecturership in Modern Languages. He is now fully occupied as a writer, radio broadcaster and public speaker.
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/
Jesus Never Existed
Can you handle the truth?
No “hidden code”, no “secret bloodline”, no “arcane wisdom”, no “holy grail”, in fact, no mystery at all – just the unembellished truth about the greatest fraud in history. Jesus Never Existed reveals a disturbing truth: that the triumph of Christianity was a disaster for humanity – made chillingly ironic by the bogus nature of its central character, superstar and “saviour”. Jesus Never Existed is an uncompromising exposure of the counterfeit origins of Christianity and of the evil it has brought to the world. Not a book for those who wish to keep their faith in the cozy bliss of historical ignorance.
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Never-Existed-Kenneth-Humphreys/dp/0906879140
The Birthing of a Godman - Unbelievable in Every Word
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/book.html
Jesus Never Existed: An Introduction to the Ultimate Heresy
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Never-Existed-Introduction-Ultimate/dp/098969724X
~Richard Carrier
http://www.richardcarrier.info/about.html
On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt
http://www.amazon.com/On-Historicity-Jesus-Might-Reason/dp/1909697494
Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
http://www.amazon.com/Proving-History-Bayess-Theorem-Historical/dp/1616145595
Hitler Homer Bible Christ: The Historical Papers of Richard Carrier 1995-2013 - All of Dr. Carrier’s peer reviewed academic journal articles in history through the year 2013
http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Homer-Bible-Christ-Historical/dp/1493567128
Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Am-Not-Christian-Conclusive/dp/1456588850
~Robert M. Price
Ex-minister and accredited scholar shows Jesus to be a fictional amalgam of several 1st century prophets, mystery cult redeemers and gnostic ‘aions’.
http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/bio.htm
http://infidels.org/library/modern/robert_price/
The Case Against The Case For Christ: A New Testament Scholar Refutes the Reverend Lee Strobel - Frank R. Zindler (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Christ-Testament-Reverend/dp/1578840058
The Christ-Myth Theory and Its Problems
http://www.amazon.com/The-Christ-Myth-Theory-Its-Problems/dp/1578840171
Deconstructing Jesus
http://www.amazon.com/Deconstructing-Jesus-Robert-M-Price/dp/1573927589
The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond The Grave
http://www.amazon.com/Empty-Tomb-Jesus-Beyond-Grave/dp/159102286X
Night of the Living Savior
http://www.amazon.com/Night-Living-Savior-Robert-Price/dp/1578840104
Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?
http://www.amazon.com/Incredible-Shrinking-Son-Man-Tradition/dp/1591021219
The Amazing Colossal Apostle: The Search for the Historical Paul
http://www.amazon.com/The-Amazing-Colossal-Apostle-Historical/dp/156085216X
~Earl Doherty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Doherty
Jesus: Neither God Nor Man - The Case for a Mythical Jesus - Massive Book
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Neither-God-Case-Mythical-ebook/dp/B00772ZH8Y
The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Puzzle-Christianity-Challenging-Historical/dp/096892591X
~Frank R. Zindler
http://infidels.org/library/modern/frank_zindler/bio.html
http://www.mythicistpapers.com/2012/10/01/frank-zindler/
The Jesus the Jews Never Knew
http://www.amazon.com/The-Jesus-Jews-Never-Knew/dp/1578849160
The Age of Reason: Examination of the Prophecies - by Thomas Paine (Author), Frank R. Zindler (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Reason-Examination-Prophecies/dp/0910309701
The Legend of Saint Peter - by Arthur Drews (Author), Frank R. Zindler (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Saint-Peter-Arthur-Drews/dp/1578849519
~W. H. Uffington
http://www.workhorsepublishing.co.uk/Workhorse_Publishing/Home.html
The Greatest Lie Ever Told
http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Lie-Ever-Told/dp/0956798004
50 fascinating facts about Jesus that no-one told you before (50 fascinating facts about religion that no-one told you before Book 1
http://www.amazon.com/fascinating-facts-no-one-before-religion-ebook/dp/B005KC24DE
~Thomas L. Brodie
Irish Roman Catholic priest within the Dominican Order. He is also a biblical theologian, educator and author born in Crusheen, County Clare. He is a co-founder and former director of the Dominican Biblical Institute in Limerick. “Jesus did not exist as a historical individual.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Brodie
Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Quest-Historical-Jesus-Discovery/dp/190753458X
~Thomas L. Thompson
Theologian, university don and historian of the Copenhagen school who concludes Jesus and David are both amalgams of Near Eastern mythological themes originating in the Bronze Age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Thompson
Is This Not the Carpenter?: The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus
http://www.amazon.com/This-Not-Carpenter-Historicity-International/dp/1844657299
The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David
http://www.amazon.com/The-Messiah-Myth-Eastern-Roots/dp/022406200X
http://ku-dk.academia.edu/ThomasLThompson
~Harold Leidner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Leidner
The Fabrication of the Christ Myth
http://www.amazon.com/Fabrication-Christ-Myth-Harold-Leidner/dp/0967790107
~Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Freke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gandy_(author)
The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus” a Pagan God?
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Mysteries-Was-Original-Pagan/dp/0609807986
Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians
Examines the close relationship between the Jesus Story and that of Osiris-Dionysus. Jesus and Mary Magdalene mythic figures based on the Pagan Godman and Goddess.
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Lost-Goddess-Teachings-Christians/dp/1400045940
The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom
http://www.amazon.com/Laughing-Jesus-Religious-Gnostic-Wisdom/dp/140008279X
~Raphael Lataster
Religious studies scholar at the University of Sydney puts his head above the parapet. This former fundamentalist Christian concludes from the spurious evidence, Bayesian reasoning, and rigorous logic that the historical Jesus never existed.
http://www.raphaellataster.com/
There was no Jesus, there is no God: A Scholarly Examination of the Scientific, Historical, and Philosophical Evidence & Arguments for Monotheism
http://www.amazon.com/there-was-Jesus-God-Philosophical/dp/1492234419
~D. M. Murdock - Acharya S
http://www.truthbeknown.com/author.html
The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
http://www.amazon.com/Christ-Conspiracy-Greatest-Story-Ever/dp/0932813747
Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Was-Jesus-Fingerprints-Christ/dp/0979963109
The Origins of Christianity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus Christ
http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Christianity-Quest-Historical-Christ-ebook/dp/B004KZOS22
Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection
http://www.amazon.com/Christ-Egypt-Horus-Jesus-Connection-Murdock/dp/0979963117
Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled
http://www.amazon.com/Suns-God-Krishna-Buddha-Unveiled/dp/1931882312
Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver
http://www.amazon.com/Moses-Exist-Myth-Israelite-Lawgiver/dp/0979963184
~Christopher Hitchens
http://www.biography.com/people/christopher-hitchens–20845987
(1949–2011) He appeared more emphatic when speaking to a bookstore audience in Washington D.C. in 2007 when he said, “Jesus of Nazareth is not a figure in history … there is no firm evidence that he existed.” When asked if he really believed that Jesus never lived, however, he more carefully responded, “No, I said there is no reason to believe that he did.”
“little or no evidence for the life of Jesus,”
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
http://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything/dp/0446697966
~Arthur Drews
Eminent philosopher was Germany’s greatest exponent of the contention that Christ is a myth. The gospels historized a pre-existing mystical Jesus whose character was drawn from the prophets and Jewish wisdom literature. The Passion was to be found in the speculations of Plato.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Drews
The Christ Myth, 1910, Die Christusmythe
https://archive.org/details/christmyth00drew
The Witnesses to the Historicity of Jesus
http://www.mountainman.com.au/essenes/Witnesses_to_the_historicity_of%20Jesus_AUTHUR_DREWS_1912.htm
1924, Die Entstehung des Christentums aus dem Gnostizismus (The Emergence of Christianity from Gnosticism).
1926, The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus
~George R. Dekle, Sr.
The Case against Christ: A Critique of the Prosecution of Jesus
http://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Christ-Critique-Prosecution/dp/1443831948
~Matthew S. Mccormick
http://www.csus.edu/phil/Department/Faculty/McCormick.html
Atheism And The Case Against Christ - The resurrection of Jesus, is false.
http://www.amazon.com/Atheism-Against-Christ-Matthew-Mccormick/dp/1616145811
~Tom Harpur
Canadian New Testament scholar and ex-Anglican priest re-states the ideas of Kuhn, Higgins and Massey. Jesus is a myth and all of the essential ideas of Christianity originated in Egypt.
http://www.tomharpur.com/biography/
Water Into Wine: An Empowering Vision of the Gospels
http://www.amazon.com/Water-Into-Wine-Empowering-Gospels/dp/0887623646
The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?
http://www.amazon.com/Pagan-Christ-Blind-Killing-Christianity-ebook/dp/B002VQ7PWC
The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light
http://www.amazon.com/Pagan-Christ-Recovering-Lost-Light/dp/0802714498
The Pagan Christ Documentary - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
~John G. Jackson
Most influential Black Atheist drew attention to the Ethiopian and Egyptian precedents of Christian belief.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Jackson_(writer)
Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth
http://www.amazon.com/Pagan-Origins-Christ-Myth-Jackson/dp/0910309531
1985, Christianity Before Christ
http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Before-Christ-John-Jackson/dp/0910309205
1933, Was Jesus Christ a Negro?
~John W. Loftus
http://infidels.org/library/modern/john_loftus/bio.html
The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails
http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Delusion-Why-Faith-Fails/dp/1616141689
The End of Christianity
http://www.amazon.com/End-Christianity-John-W-Loftus/dp/1616144130
~Rene Salm
http://www.amazon.com/Ren%C3%A9-Salm/e/B001JS0VEC
The Myth Of Nazareth: The Invented Town Of Jesus - with Frank R. Zindler (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Nazareth-Invented-Town-Jesus/dp/1578840031
~Guy P. Harrison
50 Simple Questions for Every Christian
http://www.amazon.com/50-Simple-Questions-Every-Christian/dp/161614727X
50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God
http://www.amazon.com/Reasons-People-Give-Believing-God/dp/1591025672
~John E. Remsburg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Remsburg
1909, The Christ: A critical review and analysis of the evidences of His existence.
http://www.amazon.com/Christ-John-E-Remsberg/dp/0879759240
~Robert G Ingersoll
Illinois orator extraordinaire, his speeches savaged the Christian religion. “It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll
Challenging the Bible: Selections from the Writings and Speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll
http://www.amazon.com/Challenging-Bible-Selections-Writings-Ingersoll/dp/1932968261
http://infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/
1872, The Gods
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Other-Lectures-Robert-Ingersoll/dp/1605209015
1879, Some Mistakes of Moses
http://www.amazon.com/Some-Mistakes-Moses-Robert-Ingersoll/dp/0879753617
~Daniel C. Dennett
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/
Caught in The Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind
http://www.amazon.com/Caught-Pulpit-Leaving-Belief-Behind/dp/0615927904
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Spell-Religion-Natural-Phenomenon/dp/0143038338
~Bertrand Russell
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“Historically it is quite doubtful that Jesus existed, and if he did we do not know anything about him, so that I am not concerned with the historical question, which is a very difficult one”
http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Essays-Religion-Related-Subjects/dp/0671203231
~Albert Schweitzer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer
The famous German theologian and missionary (35 years in the Cameroons) ridiculed the humanitarian Jesus of the liberals and at the same time had the courage to recognize the work of the Dutch Radicals. His own pessimistic conclusion was that the superhero had been an apocalyptic fanatic and that Jesus died a disappointed man.
1901, The Mystery of the Kingdom of God
http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Kingdom-God-Albert-Schweitzer-ebook/dp/B0034L001Q
1906, The Quest of the Historical Jesus
http://www.amazon.com/Quest-Historical-Jesus-Albert-Schweitzer/dp/0486440273
~George Albert Wells
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Albert_Wells
1975, Did Jesus Exist?
http://www.amazon.com/Did-Jesus-Exist-G-Wells/dp/0879753951
1988, The Historical Evidence for Jesus
http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Evidence-Jesus-G-Wells/dp/087975429X
1996, The Jesus Legend
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Legend-George-Albert-Wells/dp/0812693345
1998, Jesus Myth
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Myth-G-Wells/dp/0812693922
2004, Can We Trust the New Testament? Thoughts on the Reliability of Early Christian Testimony. Christianity a growth from Jewish Wisdom literature
http://www.amazon.com/Can-Trust-New-Testament-Reliability/dp/0812695674
*Later books concede possible influence of a real preacher.
~Tim C. Leedom
The Book Your Church Doesn’t Want You to Read
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Your-Church-Doesnt-Want/dp/0939040158
http://www.scribd.com/doc/231890796/Tim-C-Leedom-The-Book-Your-Church-Doesn-t-Want-You-to-Read
http://issuu.com/scottjenson/docs/tim_c._leedom_-_the_book_your_churc/1
~Alexander Jacob
http://www.arktos.com/our-authors/alexander-jacob.html
Brahman: A Study of the Solar Rituals of the Indo-Europeans
http://www.amazon.com/Brahman-Study-Solar-Rituals-Indo-Europeans/dp/3487147408
~Sir James George Frazer
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/217662/Sir-James-George-Frazer
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
~Joseph Klausner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Klausner
He wrote that biblical scholars “tried their hardest to find in the historic Jesus something which is not Judaism; but in his actual history they have found nothing of this whatever, since this history is reduced almost to zero. It is therefore no wonder that at the beginning of this century there has been a revival of the eighteenth and nineteenth century view that Jesus never existed.”
Jesus of Nazareth: His Life, Times, and Teaching
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/jesus-of-nazareth-joseph-klausner/1001388954?ean=9780819705655
http://www.publishersrow.com/ebookshuk/cart/shopproductdetail.asp?id=2752
http://www.jnjr.div.ed.ac.uk/Primary%20Sources/modern/langton_josephklausnersjesus.html
Sequel: From Jesus to Paul
http://www.jnjr.div.ed.ac.uk/Primary%20Sources/modern/langton_josephklausnersjesus.html
~Hermann Samuel Reimarus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Samuel_Reimarus
(1694-1768) Enlightenment thinker and professor of Oriental languages at the Hamburg Gymnasium, his extensive writings – published after his death – rejected 'revealed religion’ and argued for a naturalistic deism. Reimarus charged the gospel writers with conscious fraud and innumerable contradictions.
Fragments from Reimarus: Consisting of Brief Critical Remarks on the Object of Jesus and His Disciples As Seen in the New Testament (Classic Reprint) – Contains: 1778, On the Intention of Jesus and His Teaching
http://www.amazon.com/Fragments-Reimarus-Consisting-Disciples-Testament/dp/B008ZJR6XM
~Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
(1694-1778)The most influential figure of the Enlightenment was educated at a Jesuit college yet concluded, “Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world … The true God cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on a gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough.” Imprisoned, exiled, his works banned and burned, Voltaire’s great popularity in revolutionary France assured him a final resting place in the Pantheon in Paris. Religious extremists stole his remains and dumped them in a garbage heap.
http://www.biography.com/people/voltaire-9520178
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voltaire/
God & Human Beings: First English Translation
http://www.amazon.com/God-Human-Beings-English-Translation/dp/1616141786
The Portable Voltaire (Portable Library)
http://www.amazon.com/Portable-Voltaire-Library/dp/0140150412
The Best Known Works of Voltaire: The Complete Romances, Including Candide, the Philosophy of History, the Ignorant Philosopher, Dialogues and Philosophic Criticisms
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Known-Works-Voltaire-Philosopher/dp/B000NSGTMW
~Count Constantine Volney
Napoleonic investigator saw for himself evidence of Egyptian precursors of Christianity.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/632357/Constantin-Francois-de-Chasseboeuf-count-de-Volney
1787, Les Ruines; ou, Méditation sur les révolutions des empires (Ruins of Empires)
~Edward Evanson
English rationalist challenged apostolic authorship of the 4th Gospel and denounced several Pauline epistles as spurious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Evanson
1792, The Dissonance of the Four Generally Received Evangelists and the Evidence of their Respective Authenticity
~Reverend Robert Taylor
Taylor was imprisoned for declaring mythical origins for Christianity. “The earliest Christians meant the words to be nothing more than a personification of the principle of reason, of goodness, or that principle, be it what it may, which may most benefit mankind in the passage through life.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_(Radical)
1828, Syntagma Of The Evidences Of The Christian Religion
1829, Diegesis
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Diegesis%20
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
One time Trinitarian Christian and former Unitarian minister held Jesus to be a "true prophet” but that organised Christianity was an “eastern monarchy”.
“Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck.”
http://www.biography.com/people/ralph-waldo-emerson-9287153
RWE.org - Complete Works of RWE
1841, Essays
~Mitchell Logan
“Reigning opinion, however ill-founded and absurd, is always queen of the nations.”
1842, Christian Mythology Unveiled
http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Mythology-Unveiled-Lectures/dp/B009PU7D10
~Ferdinand Christian Baur
German scholar who identified as “inauthentic” not only the pastoral epistles, but also Colossians, Ephesians, Philemon and Philippians (leaving only the four main Pauline epistles regarded as genuine). Baur was the founder of the so-called “Tübingen School.”
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/56490/Ferdinand-Christian-Baur
1845, Paulus, der Apostel Jesu Christi
~David Friedrich Strauss
Lutheran vicar-turned-scholar, skilfully exposed gospel miracles as myth and in the process reduced Jesus to a man. It cost him his career. Strauss’ appointment as chair of theology at the University of Zürich caused such controversy that the authorities offered him a pension before he had a chance to start his duties.
The Earl of Shaftesbury called the 1846 translation by Marian Evans “The most pestilential book ever vomited out of the jaws of hell.”
http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/bce/strauss.htm
The life of Jesus critically examined
~Bruno Bauer
German, Bruno Bauer (1809–1882), who taught at the University of Bonn, took Strauss’ arguments further and became the first openly public author to systematically argue that Jesus did not exist. Bauer contested the authenticity of all the Pauline epistles (in which he saw the influence of Stoic thinkers like Seneca) and identified Philo’s role in emergent Christianity. Bauer rejected the historicity of Jesus himself. “Everything that is known of Jesus belongs to the world of imagination.” As a result in 1842 Bauer was ridiculed and removed from his professorship of New Testament theology at Tübingen.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bauer/
An English Edition of Bruno Bauer’s 1843 Christianity Exposed
http://www.amazon.com/English-Bruno-Bauers-Christianity-Exposed/dp/0773471839
1877, Christus und die Caesaren. Der Hervorgang des Christentums aus dem romischen Griechentum
Christ and the Caesars
http://sidneyrigdon.com/vern/1879BaurEng.htm#pg001
Kritische Darstellung der Religion des Alten Testaments (Critical Exhibition of the Religion of the Old Testament) in two volumes
A Critique of the Gospels and a History of their Origin
1841, Criticism of the Gospel History of the Synoptics
~Kersey Graves
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kersey_Graves
The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/cv/wscs/
http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Sixteen-Crucified-Saviors-Christianity/dp/1631820419
Richard Carrier - Review
http://infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/graves.html
~Alvin Boyd Kuhn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Boyd_Kuhn
Christ’s Three Days in Hell & Case of the Missing Messiah
http://www.amazon.com/Christs-Three-Days-Missing-Messiah/dp/078731188X
Who is this King of Glory?: A Critical Study of the Christos-Messiah Tradition
http://www.amazon.com/Who-this-King-Glory-Christos-Messiah/dp/1461190363
~E. A. Wallis Budge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._A._Wallis_Budge
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum
http://www.amazon.com/Egyptian-Book-Dead-Papyrus-British/dp/048621866X
~Godfrey Higgins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Higgins
Anacalypsis; An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis; or an Inquiry into the Origin of languages, Nations and Religions
’“One thing is clear—the mythos of the Hindus, the mythos of the Jews and the mythos of the Greeks are all at bottom the same; and what are called their early histories are not histories of humankind, but are contrivances under the appearance of histories to perpetuate doctrines.” Higgins bluntly declares that every ancient author, without exception, has come to us through the medium of Christian edi- tors who have “either from roguery or folly, corrupted them all.”
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Anacalypsis
~Gerald Massey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Massey
The Natural Genesis (Two Volumes in One)
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Genesis-Two-Volumes-One/dp/1616405570
~Salomon Reinach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Reinach
Orpheus: A history of religions
http://www.amazon.com/Orpheus-history-religions-Salomon-Reinach/dp/B0008D1J6I
A short history of Christianity
~Édouard Dujardin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Dujardin
The source of the Christian tradition, a critical history of ancient Judaism
Ancient History of the God Jesus
http://books.google.com/books/about/Ancient_History_of_the_God_Jesus.html?id=WebwDM4TCK4C
~Charles-François Dupuis
“A great error is more easily propagated, than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.” Dupuis destroyed most of his own work because of the violent reaction it provoked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Fran%C3%A7ois_Dupuis
1794, Origine de tous les Cultes ou La Religion universelle. Astral-mythical interpretation of Christianity (and all religion)
~Rudolf Bultmann
Lutheran theologian and professor at Marburg University Bultman was the exponent of 'form criticism’ and did much to demythologise the gospels. He identified the narratives of Jesus as theology served up in the language of myth. Bultmann observed that the New Testament was not the story of Jesus but a record of early Christian belief. He argued that the search for an historical Jesus was fruitless: "We can know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Bultmann
Jesus Christ and Mythology
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Christ-Mythology-Rudolf-Bultmann/dp/0334046300
New Testament & Mythology
http://www.amazon.com/New-Testament-Mythology-Rudolf-Bultmann/dp/0800624424
1921, The History of the Synoptic Tradition
~Georges Ory
http://www.mythicistpapers.com/2012/10/01/georges-ory/
1961, An Analysis of Christian Origins
~ Emilio Bossi (pseudonym of Milesbo)
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Bossi
1904, Gesù Cristo non è mai esistito (Jesus Christ Never Existed)
~Solomon Zeitlin
http://www.nndb.com/people/402/000050252/
THE CHRIST PASSAGE IN JOSEPHUS
http://www.christianorigins.com/zeitlin.html
~Charles Bradlaugh
Most famous English atheist of the 19th century, founded the National Secular Society and became an MP, winning the right to affirm. Condemned the teachings of Jesus as dehumanizing passivity and disastrous as practical advice. Bradlaugh denounced the gospel Jesus as a myth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bradlaugh
1860, Who Was Jesus Christ? What Did Jesus Teach?
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Jesus-Christ-what-teach/dp/B00E9DSOQQ
http://infidels.org/library/historical/charles_bradlaugh/what_jesus_taught.html
Quotes:
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/bradlaugh.htm
~Ernest Renan
Although trained as a Catholic priest Renan was inspired by German biblical criticism and wrote a popular biography of Jesus which cost him his job (which he later regained). Renan concluded that the hero of the Christians was a gifted but merely human preacher, persuaded by his followers into thinking he was the messiah. Renan subsequently wrote a History of the Origins of Christianity in seven volumes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Renan
1863, Vie de Jésus (Das Leben Jesu / Life of Jesus)
~Walter Cassels
http://www.ftarchives.net/cassels/bio.htm
1874, Supernatural Religion - An Inquiry Concerning the Reality of Divine Revelation – 3 Volumes
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Supernatural%20religion%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts
Volume 1
http://www.amazon.com/Supernatural-Religion-Inquiry-Reality-Revelation-ebook/dp/B005LXJRVY
https://archive.org/details/supernaturalreli001cass
Volume 2
https://archive.org/details/supernaturalreli02cassiala
Volume 3
https://archive.org/details/supernaturalrel07cassgoog
A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot’s Essays By the Author of “Supernatural religion”
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=13433
~Allard Pierson
Theologian, art and literature historian who identified The Sermon on the Mount as a collection of aphorisms from Jewish Wisdom literature.The publication of Pierson’s Bergrede was the beginning of Dutch Radical Criticism. Not just the authenticity of all the Pauline epistles but the historical existence of Jesus himself was called into question.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allard_Pierson
1879, De Bergrede en andere synoptische Fragmenten
~Bronson C. Keeler
1881, A Short History of the Bible - A classic exposé of Christian fraud
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/bronson-c.-keeler
http://google.ca/books?id=u4kXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7&source=gbs_selected_pages%20e#v=onepage&q&f=false
~Abraham Dirk Loman
Professor of theology at Amsterdam who said all the epistles date from the 2nd century. Loman explained Christianity as a fusion of Jewish and Roman-Hellenic thinking. When he went blind Loman said his blindness gave him insight into the dark history of the church!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Dirk_Loman
1882, “Quaestiones Paulinae,” in Theologisch Tijdschrift
http://www.worldcat.org/title/quaestiones-paulinae/oclc/13799483
~Thomas William Doane
1882, Bible Myths and their Parallels in Other Religions
http://www.amazon.com/Bible-Myths-their-Parallels-Religions/dp/1564599221
https://archive.org/details/biblemythsandthe00doanuoft
~Samuel Adrianus Naber
Classicist who saw Greek myths hidden within Christian scripture.
1886, Verisimilia. Laceram conditionem Novi Testamenti exemplis illustrarunt et ab origine repetierunt
~Edwin Johnson
English radical theologian identified the early Christians as the Chrestiani, followers of a good (Chrestus) God who had expropriating the myth of Dionysos Eleutherios (“Dionysos the Emancipator”), to produce a self-sacrificing Godman. Denounced the twelve apostles as complete fabrication.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Johnson_(historian)
1887, Antiqua Mater. A Study of Christian Origins
http://www.amazon.com/Antiqua-Mater-Christian-Origins-Primary/dp/1294850539
1894, The Pauline Epistles: Re-studied and Explained
http://www.egodeath.com/edwinjohnsonpaulineepistles.htm
http://www.radikalkritik.de/pauline_epistles.htm
~Rudolf Steck
Radical Swiss scholar branded all the Pauline epistles as fakes.
1888, Der Galaterbrief nach seiner Echtheit untersucht nebst kritischen Bemerkungen zu den Paulinischen Hauptbriefen
~Franz Hartman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hartmann
1889, The Life of Johoshua: The Prophet of Nazareth
http://www.theosophical.ca/books/LifeOfJehoshua,The_FHartmann.pdf
https://archive.org/details/lifeofjehoshuapr00hart
~Willem Christiaan van Manen
Professor at Leiden and most famous of the Dutch Radicals, a churchman who did not believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. After resisting the argument for many years van Manen concluded none of the Pauline epistles were genuine and that Acts was dependent on the works of Josephus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Christiaan_van_Manen
1896, Paulus
http://www.amazon.com/Paulus-Dutch-Willem-Christiaan-Manen/dp/1167239776
~Joseph McCabe
Franciscan monk-turned-evangelical atheist. A prolific writer, shredded many parts of the Christ legend – “There is no 'figure of Jesus’ in the Gospels. There are a dozen figures” – but he continued to allow the possibility for a historical founder..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCabe
http://infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_mccabe/
1897, Why I Left the Church
1907, The Bible in Europe: an Inquiry into the Contribution of the Christian Religion to Civilization
1914, The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels
1926, The Human Origin of Morals
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Joseph%20McCabe
~Wilhelm Wrede
Wrede demonstrated how, in Mark’s gospel, a false history was shaped by early Christian belief.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wrede
1901, The Messianic Secret (Das Messiasgeheimnis in den Evangelien)
~Albert Kalthoff
Another radical German scholar who identified Christianity as a psychosis. Christ was essentially the transcendental principle of the Christ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kalthoff
1902, Das Christus-Problem
http://www.worldcat.org/title/christus-problem-grundlinien-zu-einer-sozial-theologie/oclc/367402584
1907, The Rise of Christianity
http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Christianity-Primary-Source/dp/1293282855
~George Robert Stowe Mead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._R._S._Mead
1903, Did Jesus Live 100 BC?
1907, The Gnostic Crucifixion
The G. R. S. Mead Online Collection
http://www.gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/jesus_live_100/index.htm
~Thomas Whittaker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Whittaker_(metaphysician)
1904, The Origins of Christianity
~William Benjamin Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Benjamin_Smith
1906, Der vorchristliche Jesus
1911, Die urchristliche Lehre des reingöttlichen Jesus
http://www.worldcat.org/title/ecce-deus-die-urchristliche-lehre-des-reingottlichen-jesu/oclc/6460209
The Birth Of The Gospel: A Study Of The Origin And Purport Of The Primitive Allegory Of The Jesus
http://www.amazon.com/Birth-Gospel-Purport-Primitive-Allegory/dp/125818172X
~Gerardus Bolland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Bolland
Philosopher at Leiden identified the origin of Christianity in an earlier Jewish Gnosticism. The New Testament superstar is the Old Testament 'son of Nun’, the follower renamed Jesus by Moses. The virgin is nothing but a symbol for the people of Israel. From Alexandria the “Netzerim” took their gospel to Palestine.
1907, De Evangelische Jozua
http://www.amazon.com/evangelische-Jozua-aanwijzing-oorsprong-Christendoms/dp/B0037UZC1C
~Prosper Alfaric
(1886-1955)French Professor of Theology, shaken by the stance of Pius X, renounced his faith and left the church in 1909 to work for the cause of rationalism.
http://www.mythicistpapers.com/2012/10/01/prosper-alfaric/
- Pour comprendre la vie de Jésus: Examen critique de l’évangile selon Marc. Paris: Rieder, 1929.
- De la foi à la raison, Nouvelles Éditions Rationalistes, rééd. 1984 (1re éd. 1932)
- Jésus-Christ a-t-il existé? (1932), prefaced by Michel Onfray. The 2005 Coda edition also contains Comment s’est formé le mythe du Christ? (1947) and Le problème de Jésus (1954).
- P. Alfaric, Paul-Louis Couchoud et Albert Bayet, Le Problème de Jésus et les Origines du Christianisme, éd. Paris: Bibliothèque Rationaliste, Les œuvres représentatives, 1932.
- Les manuscrits de la “Vie de Jesus” d’Ernest Renan, éd. Les Belles Lettres, Publications de la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Strasbourg, 1939.
- A l’école de la raison: études sur les origines chrétiennes, Nouvelles Éditions Rationalistes
- Origines sociales du christianisme, Publications de l’Union Rationaliste, 1959.
http://www.amazon.com/Prosper-Alfaric/e/B00IZ4GYFI/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1406344009
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/prosper-alfaric
~Peter Jensen
Orientalist argued that Jesus was reworked Babylonian mythology.
1909, Moses, Jesus, Paul: Three Variations on the Babylonian Godman Gilgamesh
~Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian
Erstwhile Presbyterian Minister who saw through the fabrication. “Even in the first centuries the Christians were compelled to resort to forgery to prove the historicity of Jesus.”
1909, The Truth About Jesus. Is He a Myth?
~Karl Kautsky
Early socialist interpreted Christianity in terms of class struggle.
1909, The Foundations of Christianity
~John Robertson
Robertson drew attention to the universality of many elements of the Jesus storyline and to pre-Christian crucifixion rituals in the ancient world. Identified the original Jesus/Joshua with an ancient Ephraimite deity in the form of a lamb.
1910, Christianity and Mythology
1911, Pagan Christs. Studies in Comparative Hierology
1917, The Jesus Problem
~Gustaaf Adolf van den Bergh van Eysinga
Theologian and last of the Dutch radicals to hold a university professorship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaaf_Adolf_van_den_Bergh_van_Eysinga
1908, Examining the Authenticity of the First Epistle of Clement
1912, Radical Views about the New Testament
1918, Voorchristelijk Christendom. De vorbereiding van het Evangelie in de Hellenistische wereld
1930, Does Jesus Live, or Has He Only Lived?
1951, Early Christianity`s Letters
~Alexander Hislop
Exhaustive exposure of the pagan rituals and paraphernalia of Roman Catholicism.
1916, The Two Babylons
~Edward Carpenter
Elaborated the pagan origins of Christianity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Carpenter
1920, Pagan and Christian Creeds
~Paul-Louis Couchoud
Couchoud espoused an historical Peter rather than an historical Jesus and argued that the Passion was modelled on the death of Stephen.
http://www.mythicistpapers.com/2012/10/02/paul-louis-couchoud/
http://www.radikalkritik.de/Couchoud21.pdf
1924, Le mystère de Jesus
1926, La Première Edition de St. Paul
1930, Jesus Barabbas
1939, The Creation of Christ
http://vridar.org/2012/03/12/table-of-contents-for-couchouds-the-creation-of-christ/
~Georg Brandes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Brandes
Danish scholar identified the Revelation of St John as the earliest part of the New Testament.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Brandes
1925, Die Jesus-Sage
http://www.radikalkritik.de/Brandes_Jesus-Sage.pdf
1926, Jesus – A Myth
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-myth-Translated-Danish-Bj%C3%B6rkman/dp/B001DBE4O8
~Joseph Wheless
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wheless
American attorney, raised in the Bible Belt, shredded the biblical fantasy.
1926, Is It God’s Word? An Exposition of the Fables and Mythology of the Bible and the Fallacies of Theology
http://infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_wheless/is_it_gods_word/
1930, Forgery in Christianity
http://infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_wheless/forgery_in_christianity/
http://www.harrington-sites.com/Wheless2.htm
http://www.harrington-sites.com/terms.htm
~Henri Delafosse
Epistles of Ignatius denounced as late forgeries.
1926, L'épître aux Romains
1927, Les Lettres d’Ignace d’Antioche
1928, “Les e'crits de Saint Paul,” in Christianisme
~L. Gordon Rylands
1927, The Evolution of Christianity
1935, Did Jesus Ever Live?
~Herbert Cutner
Mythical nature of Jesus and a summary of the ongoing debate between mythicists and historicizers. Mythic-only position is continuous tradition, not novel. Pagan origins of Christ.
Jesus: God, Man or Myth? An Examination of the Evidence
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-God-Myth-Examination-Evidence/dp/1585090727
~Georges Las Vergnas
Vicar general of the diocese of Limoges who lost his faith. Argues that the central figure of Christianity had no historical existence.
1956, Pourquoi j'ai quitté l'Eglise romaine Besançon
1958, Jésus-Christ a-t-il existé?
~Guy Fau
1967, Le Fable de Jesus Christ
~John Allegro
Jesus was nothing other than a magic mushroom and his life an allegorical interpretation of a drug-induced state. Not jail for Allegro – but professional ruin.
1970, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
1979, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth
~Jean Magne
1975, Christian Origins, I-II
1989, III, IV. Logique des Dogmes, Logic of the Sacraments
1993, From Christianity to Gnosis and From Gnosis to Christianity: An Itinerary through the Texts to and from the Tree of Paradise.
~Max Rieser
Christianity started by Jews of the Diaspora and then retroactively set in pre-70 Palestine. Christianity arrived last, not first, in Palestine – that’s why Christian archeological finds appear in Rome but not in Judea until the 4th century.
1979, The True Founder of Christianity and the Hellenistic Philosophy
~Abelard Reuchlin
Conspiracy theory par excellence: Roman aristocrat Arius Calpurnius Piso (aka “Flavius Josephus”) conspired to gain control of the Roman Empire by forging an entirely new religion.
1979, The True Authorship of the New Testament
~Karlheinz Deschner
A leading German critic of religion and the Church. In 1971 Deschner was called before a court in Nuremberg, charged with “insulting the Church.”
The Criminal History of Christianity, Volumes 1-8
~Hermann Detering
German minister in the Dutch radical tradition. No Jesus and no Paul. The latter Detering identifies with the Samaritan sorcerer Simon Magus.
1992, Paulusbriefe ohne Paulus?: Die Paulusbriefe in der Holländischen Radikalkritik (The Pauline Epistles Without Paul)
2012, Der gefälschte Paulus – Das Urchristentum im Zwielicht (The Falsified Paul. Early Christianity in the twilight)
~Gary Courtney
The Passion is essentially Caesar’s fate in Judaic disguise, grafted onto the dying/resurrcting cult of Attis. Jewish fans of Caesar assimilated the sacrificed 'saviour of mankind’ into the 'Suffering Servant’ of Isaiah.
1992, 2004 Et tu, Judas? Then Fall Jesus!
~Michael Kalopoulos
Greek historian finds strikingly similar parallels between biblical texts and Greek mythology. He exposes the cunning, deceitful and authoritarian nature of religion.
1995, The Great Lie
~Gerd Lüdemann
After 25 years of study German professor concluded Paul, not Jesus, started Christianity. Lüdemann was expelled from the theology faculty at the University of Göttingen for daring to say that the Resurrection was “a pious self-deception.” So much for academic freedom.
1998, The Great Deception: And What Jesus Really Said and Did
2002, Paul: The Founder of Christianity
2004, The Resurrection Of Christ: A Historical Inquiry
~Alvar Ellegard
Christianity seen as emerging from the Essene Church of God with the Jesus prototype the Teacher of Righteousness.
1999, Jesus One Hundred Years Before Christ
~Hal Childs
A psychotherapist take on the godman.
2000, The Myth of the Historical Jesus and the Evolution of Consciousness
~Michael Hoffman
2000, Philosopher and theorist of “ego death” who jettisoned an historical Jesus
~Dennis MacDonald
Professor of New Testament studies and Christian origins maps extensive borrowings from the Homeric epics the Iliad and the Odyssey by the authors of the gospel of Mark and Acts of the Apostles.
2000, The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark
~Burton Mack
2001, The Christian Myth: Origins, Logic, and Legacy.
~Luigi Cascioli
Indicting the Papacy for profiteering from a fraud!
2001, The Fable of Christ.
~Israel Finkelstein, Neil Silbermann
Courageous archaeologists who skillfully proved the sacred foundational stories of Judaism and Christianity are bogus.
2002, The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts.
~Daniel Unterbrink
Parallels between the tax rebel of 6 AD and the phantom of the Gospels explored in detail. 'Judas is Jesus’. Well, part of Jesus, no doubt.
2004, Judas the Galilean. The Flesh and Blood Jesus.
~Michel Onfray
French philosopher argues for a positive atheism, debunking an historical Jesus along the way.
2005, Traité d'athéologie (2007 In Defence of Atheism)
~Jay Raskin
Academic and erstwhile filmaker Raskin looks beyond the official smokescreen of Eusebius and finds a fragmented Christ movement and a composite Christ figure, crafted from several literary and historical characters. Speculates that the earliest layer of myth-making was a play written by a woman called Mary. Maybe.
2006, The Evolution of Christs and Christianities..
~Jan Irvin, Andrew Rutajit
Explores astrotheology and shamanism and vindicates John Allegro’s work with psychoactive substances.
2006, Astrotheology and Shamanism: Unveiling the Law of Duality in Christianity and other Religions.
~Roger Viklund
A Swedish scholar reaches the same inescapable conclusion: Jesus never existed.
2008. Den Jesus som aldrig funnits (The Jesus who never existed).
~Sid Martin
Not a new idea but skilfully presented here by Sid Martin, who analyses the gospel of Mark with the thesis that not a man but Jewish history was his source.
2014, Secret of the Savior. Jesus as a cypher for Israel?
~Samuel Lublinski
A certain historical importance came in his theories on Jesus’ mythology (He denied the existence of Jesus). Lublinski questioned the existence of Jesus and argued that Christianity arose out of a syncretism of Judaism, mystery religions, gnosticism, and oriental influences, with the Essenes and Therapeutae as pioneering sects.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Lublinski
Das werdende Dogma vom Leben Jesu or The expectant dogma of the life of Jesus, Jena 1910
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?tn=Das+werdende+Dogma+vom+Leben+Jesu
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101055431041;view=1up;seq=1
http://www.worldcat.org/title/werdende-dogma-vom-leben-jesu/oclc/7391444
Falsche Beweise für die Existenz des Menschen Jesus or False evidence for the existence of the man Jesus , Leipzig 1910
http://www.worldcat.org/title/falsche-beweise-fur-die-existenz-des-menschen-jesus/oclc/42083933
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101063844748;view=1up;seq=5
~Archibald Robertson
Not to be confused with John Robertson. His father (same name) was Principal of King’s College, London and Bishop of Exeter. Robertson finds a middle ground between traditionalism and mythicism.
Jesus: Myth or History?
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Myth-History-Archibald-Robertson/dp/B000L58SL2
http://worldlibrary.net/eBooks/WPLBN0000892890-Jesus-Myth-or-History-by-Archibald-Robertson.aspx
~Albert Bayet
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bayet
Le Problème de Jésus et les Origines du christianisme, avec or The Problem of Jesus and the Origins of Christianity , with Prosper Alfaric and Paul-Louis Couchoud , 1932
~Charles Guignebert
http://www.mythicistpapers.com/2012/10/01/charles-guignebert/
- Jésus (1933)
- Le monde juif vers le temps de Jésus (1935)
- Le Christ (posthumous, 1943)
- Manuel d’Histoire ancienne du Christianisme (1907)
- Le Christianisme antique (1921)
- Le christianisme médieval et moderne (1927)
Significant works by Guignebert also include:
- Tertullien (1901)
- Modernisme et tradition catholique en France (1908)
- La primauté de Pierre et la venue de Pierre à Rome (1909)
- Le problème de Jésus (1914)
- La vie cachée de Jésus (1921)
~Joseph Turmel
Turmel’s faith was ardent, and he worked hard to defend the Church against the incredulous. However, he himself became subject to doubts with the appearance of Gesenius’ commentary on Isaiah. Despite Turmel’s attempts to convince himself of error, those doubts grew with his continued study of the Pentateuch. On March 18, 1886 he finally realized that he could do nothing against facts which were indubitable, and declared to himself that he was no longer a believer.
An open rupture with the Church would have represented a rapier thrust for those whom he loved. Hence Turmel lived a sort of suffocating double existence, keeping his views private as he worked in secret, until a young clerk in whom he had confided apprized the authorities of his radical theories. Turmel was forced to resign his position and hand over his manuscripts: twenty-three notebooks totaling 5,000 lines were consigned to the flames “for the greater glory of God.”
Turmel retained his position as chaplain to the Little Sisters of the Poor of Rennes (1893). He continued his solitary researches without any real hope of publication. Luckily, a priest from Breton made Turmel’s Angelology known to Alfred Loisy and Lejay. These included Turmel on their production staff of the Revue d’Historie et de Litterature Religieuse. Several of Turmel’s works were published in its pages under pseudonyms and elicited much attention. Soon Turmel was linked to the works through their quality and style and the revenge of orthodoxy was not long delayed. In 1903 he resigned his position as chaplain and took up an insignificant post under a parish priest. He made use of ample spare time to write. Turmel’s public persona disappeared while a stream of his works appeared under numerous pseudonyms from 1909 to 1930.
Meanwhile, the Church watched. One pseudonym was revealed, and Turmel was betrayed yet again by an ecclesiastic whom he had taken into his confidence. Turmel eventually confessed to the use of fourteen pseudonyms and was excommunicated in 1930. However, this did not alter his working habits and Turmel continued to produce admirable works, many published before his death. These include his monumental History of Dogma (6 volumes, 1931-36) and no less than 143 reviews and articles of significance.
http://www.mythicistpapers.com/2012/10/01/joseph-turmel/
Most notable are:
Pseud. “L. Coulanges”:
- La Vierge Marie (1925)
- La Messe (1927)
- Catechisme pour adultes, I, II (1929-30)
Pseud. “H. Delafosse”:
- Le quatrième évangile (1925)
- Les écrits de Saint Paul (4 vols., 1926-28)
- Les Lettres d’Ignace d’Antioche (1927)
J. Turmel:
- Histoire du Diable (1931)
- Comment j’ai donné congé aux dogmes (1935)
~Hannen Swaffer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannen_Swaffer
TEACHINGS OF SILVER BIRCH
http://www.amazon.com/Teachings-Silver-Birch-W-Austen/dp/B000RIUWYY
http://continuityoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Teachings-of-Silver-birch.pdf
~Harry Elmer Barnes
“Biblical criticism, applied to the New Testament, has removed the element of supernaturalism…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Elmer_Barnes
~Charles Virolleaud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Virolleaud
La légende du Christ
http://www.amazon.com/l%C3%A9gende-du-Christ-French/dp/B00387EZE4
https://archive.org/details/MN42086ucmf_1
http://www.worldcat.org/title/legende-du-christ/oclc/48188216
La Civilisation phénicienne (1933)
La Mythologie phénicienne (1938)
~Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin-Fran%C3%A7ois_Chasseb%C5%93uf
~Emil Felden
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Felden
Books
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Emil%20Felden
~Tony Bushby
Christ on Trial
http://www.amazon.com/Christ-Trial-Tony-Bushby-ebook/dp/B00BH1FNAI
The Bible Fraud: An Untold Story of Jesus Christ by Tony Bushby (Jan 15, 2001)
http://www.amazon.com/Bible-Fraud-Untold-Story-Christ/dp/0957900716
~Michael O. Wise
https://www.unwsp.edu/web/bats-dept/michael-o-wise
The First Messiah: Investigating the Savior Before Jesus
http://www.amazon.com/The-First-Messiah-Investigating-Savior/dp/0060696451
~Arthur M. Rothstein
The Jesus Idea
http://www.amazon.com/The-Jesus-Idea-Arnold-Rothstein/dp/0879758627
~Frank Dobbins
False Gods Or The Idol Worship Of The World
http://www.amazon.com/False-Gods-Idol-Worship-World/dp/1162983744
Story of the world’s worship;: A complete, graphic and comparative history of the many strange beliefs, superstitious practices, domestic … from the birth of man to the present day
http://www.amazon.com/Story-worlds-worship-comparative-superstitious/dp/B00085BFBK
~R.G. Price
Jesus - A Very Jewish Myth
http://www.lulu.com/shop/rg-price/jesus-a-very-jewish-myth/ebook/product-17510469.html
http://www.lulu.com/shop/rg-price/jesus-a-very-jewish-myth/paperback/product-2079912.html
http://rationalrevolution.net/articles/jesus_myth_history.htm
~Klaus Schilling
http://www.egodeath.com/BollandGospelJesus.htm
~Andrzej Niemojewski
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Niemojewski
~Livio C. Stecchini & Jan Sammer
The Gospel According to Seneca
http://www.metrum.org/gosen/fromtraggospel.htm
~Abelard Reuchlin
The true authorship of the New Testament
http://www.amazon.com/The-true-authorship-New-Testament/dp/0930808029
http://www.ivantic.net/Ostale_knjiige/TrueAuthorship.pdf
~Paul-Eric Blanrue
"le secret du suaire ; autopsie d'une escroquerie”
http://www.amazon.com/secret-suaire-autopsie-dune-escroquerie/dp/2756400637
http://www.abebooks.fr/secret-suaire-autopsie-dune-escroquerie-Paul-Eric/7699120924/bd
~C. Dennis McKinsey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_McKinsey
Biblical Errancy: A Reference Guide
http://www.amazon.com/Biblical-Errancy-Reference-Dennis-Mckinsey/dp/1573928089
The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy
http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Biblical-Errancy-Dennis-Mckinsey/dp/0879759267
~Friedrich Nork (pen name Zelig Kohn)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nork
Myths of the ancient Persians. The sources of Christian beliefs and rituals. After the individual intimations of the Church Fathers and some more recent scholars to the First Male systematically lined up. Leipzig 1835
~Gilbert T. Sadler
The Origin and Meaning of Christianity
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Origin-Meaning-Christianity-Gilbert-Thomas/dp/B0017WEWJK
http://www.worldcat.org/title/origin-and-meaning-of-christianity/oclc/492358569
The Gnostic story of Jesus Christ
Behind the New Testament
http://www.worldcat.org/title/behind-the-new-testament/oclc/12755366
~Thomas Paine
http://www.biography.com/people/thomas-paine-9431951
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/paine.html
Pamphleteer who made the first call for American independence (Common Sense, 1776; Rights of Man, 1791) Paine poured savage ridicule on the contradictions and atrocities of the Bible. Like many American revolutionaries Paine was a deist:
1795, The Age of Reason
“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of … Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all." – The Age of Reason.
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