The Historical Christ; Or, An investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. Smith

[Orthodox obscurantism the parent of Sciolism] In Myth, Magic, and Morals (Chapter IX) I have remarked that the Church, by refusing to apply in the field of so-called sacred his...

[Babylonian influence on Greek religion slight;] The three writers whose views I have so far considered agree in denying that Jesus was a real historical personage; but their ag...

[Repudiation by the partisans of non-historicity of Jesus of regular historical method] Let us pause here and try to frame some ideas of the methods of this new school which den...

[Mr. Robertson's vital interpolations] Now let us turn to the Epistles of Paul, a person whom these writers, as we have seen above, admit to have lived, and to have played no sm...

[Multiplicity of documents converging on and involving an historical Jesus] I have remarked above that if the Gospel of Mark were an isolated writing, if we knew nothing of its...

[Is Mark's Gospel a religious romance?] I can imagine some people arguing that Mark's Gospel might be a religious novel, of which the scene is laid in Jerusalem and Galilee amon...

[Evidence of Josephus] It remains to examine how this school of writers handle the evidence with regard to the earliest church supplied by Jewish or Pagan writers. I have said e...

fellow-traveller of Paul was himself the redactor, if not the author, of the earlier chapters (i-xv) of Acts, as he is obviously of the last half (ch. xvi to end); for that last...