Posted by Peter Kirby at 7:34 PM | Permalink

Sid Green has written this article that explores the relationship between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nazorean sect that became Christianity with some help from Paul and the later Gospel mythmakers. Green concludes that the Jesus story may trace back to a figure in the centuries BCE. Read it now.

Posted by Peter Kirby at 7:23 PM | Permalink

Shirley Jackson Case wrote one of the first responses to the Jesus Myth theory, The Historicity of Jesus published in 1912. Available online for the first time: read it now.

Posted by Peter Kirby at 7:20 PM | Permalink

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: read it now.