The Jesus Puzzle

By Earl Doherty,

Book cover of The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ?

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1 author picked The Jesus Puzzle as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The author, also a personal friend, has written a book full of surprising insights adding up to, again, the purely mythic character of Jesus.

I had read the New Testament many, many times, but Doherty’s book repeatedly startled me with gospel details and their implications that I could not believe I had never noticed before! He argues that the first Christians believed in a celestial Christ who never lived as a man on earth.

From Robert's list on the historical Jesus.

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