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Around the same time he created a website under the same title, in which he developed the material which he was later to publish in book form. His method was to publish a fairly crude first draft, and then omit material that proved untenable, while retaining the general direction of argument. The
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as "filled with so many unguarded and undocumented statements and claims, and so many misstatements of fact, that it would take a 2,400-page book to deal with all the problems... Not a single early Christian source supports Doherty's claim that Paul and those before him thought of Jesus as a
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Doherty asserts that Christianity began with a belief in a spiritual, mythical figure, that the Gospels are essentially allegory and fiction, and that no single identifiable person named Jesus lay at the root of the Galilean preaching tradition." Doherty argues in
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in a historical setting. Rather, they believed in Jesus as a heavenly being who suffered his sacrificial death in the lower spheres of heaven at the hands of the demon spirits, and was subsequently resurrected by
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George Albert Wells, who now argues a more moderate form of the Christ myth and who rejects Doherty's view that the mythical Jesus of Paul did not also descend to Earth, has nonetheless described
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Doherty says that the Jesus myth was given a historical setting only by the second generation of Christians, somewhere between the 1st and 2nd century. He further says that even the author of the
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considers that there are "reasons for scholars to hold" the view that Jesus never existed, but considers Doherty "A 'disciple' of Wells" who "has rehashed many of the former’s views in
249:(writing around 150–270) offer no indication that they believed in a historical figure crucified and resurrected, and that the name Jesus does not appear in any of them. 369:. In time, the gospel-narrative of this embodiment of Wisdom became interpreted as the literal history of the life of Jesus. Doherty denies any historical value of the 1285: 1325: 474:
describes Doherty as "perhaps the most influential of all the mythicists", but one who is unable to understand the ancient texts he uses in his arguments.
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into the other gospels. According to Doherty, the Q-authors may have regarded themselves as "spokespersons for the Wisdom of God," with Jesus being the
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Writers who do not necessarily support the hypothesis that Jesus did not exist have found merit in some of Doherty's arguments.
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in Ancient History and Classical Languages, but no completed advanced degrees. His undergraduate studies gave him knowledge of
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The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? - Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus
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The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? - Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus
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The End of an Illusion: How Bart Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist?" Has Laid the Case for an Historical Jesus to Rest
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Among authors sympathetic to the view that Jesus never existed, Doherty's work has received mixed reactions.
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site continued to be used for additional commentary and responses to reviews and criticisms of his work.
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described it as "the most compelling argument against the historical Jesus published in my life-time".
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Doherty was introduced to the idea of a mythical origin of Jesus by, among other things, the work of
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spiritual, not a human being, who was executed in the spiritual, not the earthly realm."
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probably did not consider his gospel to be a literal work of history, but an allegorical
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was published by Canadian Humanist Publications. He self-published a 2005 re-release of
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According to Doherty, none of the major Christian apologists before 180 AD, except for
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Challenging the Verdict - A Cross-Examination of Lee Strobel's "The Case for Christ"
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Challenging the Verdict: A Cross-Examination of Lee Strobel's "The Case for Christ"
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In 2009, Doherty self-published a revised edition of his book, with a new title of
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published his article, "The Jesus Puzzle: Pieces in a Puzzle of Christian Origins."
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in dating Acts into the 2nd century and regarding it as largely based on legend.
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He also used the title for a novel which he provided for download on his website.
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under his own imprint, Age of Reason Publications, along with two other books.
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New edition, Revised and Expanded, Originally published under the title:
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Doherty has used the title "The Jesus Puzzle" for four different works.
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and the 'Myth Theory' of Christian Origins". In Goguel, Maurice (ed.).
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In all four of these works, Doherty presents views on the origins of
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thought of Jesus as a spiritual being executed in a spiritual realm.
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In a book criticizing the Christ myth theory, New Testament scholar
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The Jesus Puzzle: A Novel About the Greatest Question of Our Time
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documents did not believe in Jesus as a person who incarnated on
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The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ?
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The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ?
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The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ?
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Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
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outlines a plausible theory for a completely mythical Jesus."
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and Classical Languages (institution and date not identified)
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figure rather than a historical person. Doherty argues that
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and other writers of the earliest existing proto-Christian
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The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present
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Jesus: Neither God Nor Man - The Case for a Mythical Jesus
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Jesus: Neither God Nor Man - The Case for a Mythical Jesus
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Jesus: Neither God nor Man—The Case for a Mythical Jesus
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did not exist as a historical figure. Doherty says that
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Canadian historian, proponent of the Christ myth theory
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has received favorable reviews from fellow mythicists
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