A prominent defender of the Jesus Myth point of view in the first half of the twentieth century was the French writer M. Couchoud. Couchoud raised such classic arguments as the ideas that Paul spoke of a heavenly non-physical Jesus and that the Evangelists spun their tales out of Old Testament midrash. Maurice Goguel, a respected New Testament scholar, published this book in part to respond to the ideas of Couchoud. Available online for the first time:
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