The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth?

The author examines claims about the historical Jesus, arguing that many gospel narratives and Christian rites derive from earlier pagan and Jewish sources. He surveys documentary evidence, questions the virgin-birth and resurrection narratives, traces the pre-Christian origin of the cross and liturgical practices, and highlights the silence of contemporary writers. He contrasts the figure constructed by early Christian epistles with narratives of the gospels, debates Christianity's cultural debt to paganism, and collects contemporary reactions and replies to clerical critics, presenting a skeptical, evidence-focused case that the central Christian portrait may be largely a later religious synthesis.