Jesus--One Hundred Years Before Christ: A Study in Creative Mythology Paperback - 2002
by Alvar Ellegard
It is commonly believed that the story of Jesus as told in the Gospels contains elements of fiction and myth, but in this ground-breaking and controversial book, Alvar Ellegard argues that even those ideas agreed to be the basic facts about the life of Jesus are fictional
This closely researched and argued study takes the reader through the earliest Christian writings, including Paul's Letters and various other biblical and non-biblical texts, and presents the provocative argument that not one of these writers had ever met Jesus or refer to anyone who had. Indeed, Ellegard postulates, even the earliest Christians describe Jesus as a great Jewish prophet and teacher, who had already become a figure of mythology-not a contemporary crucified before their eyes, but a historical figure, on a par with the Old Testament prophets. Readers will surely be fascinated by this purely historical, non-theological approach to Christianity's origins.
"Deserves a serious look not just for its ingenuity but also for the questions it raises." (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
"The reading is close, full of references in the main text as well as in endnotes...anyone interested in the argument will easily grasp and just as easily devour it." (Booklist)
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We start our investigation of earliest Christianity with Paul, whose letters are admitted by all scholars to be the earliest unquestionably Christian writings.
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- Title Jesus--One Hundred Years Before Christ: A Study in Creative Mythology
- Author Alvar Ellegard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 322
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Overlook Press, Woodstock
- Date April 1, 2002
- ISBN 9781585672523 / 1585672521
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.88 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 2.24 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99037839
- Dewey Decimal Code 270.1
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