Did Jesus Live 100 B.C.?: An Enquiry Into the Talmud Jesus Stories, the Toldoth Jeschu, and Some Curious Statements of Epiphanius; Being a ... Study of Christian Origins (Classic Reprint) Book

WHEN some five and a half centuries before the Christian Christ and Criticism. era the Buddha arose in ancient Aryfwarta to substitute actuality for tradition, to break down the barriers of convention, and throw open the Way of Righteousness to all, irrespective of race or birth, we arc told that He set aside the ancestral scriptures of His race and times, and preached a Gospel of self·reliance and a freedom from bibliolatry that will ever keep His memory green among the independent thinkers of the world. When the Christ arose in Judea, once more to break down the barriers of exclusiveness, and preach the Way to the IAmme ha-aretz, the rejected of tho ceremonialists and legal purists, we are told that Ho extended the regis of His great authority over the ancient writings of His fellow-countrymen, and cited the Torah as the very Law of God Himsolf. Vo arc assnred by Traditionalists that the Incarnation of Deity Itself, the very Giver of that Law, explicitly atteTable of Contents SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS; I-FOR~WORDChrist; and Criticism; Brahman and Jew; ??; The Christian and the Torah; The Jew and the Cospel ; The New Humanism; Theology the Divider; Au Appeal to Humanists; The New J ewisb EncycloplEdia ; The Talmud; History and Dogma; The Womb of Christianity; The Interest of our Enquiry; 'I'he Main Ohject of Search; The Problem; The Need of its Definition; The Resultant Dilemma; " OcellI t" Research ; Its Possible Validity; Some Verified Results; The Sane Attitude of the Layman; The Scope of OllT Enquiry; H-'I'm; CANONICAL DATE OF JESUSUltra; ·Scepticism; Criticism; The Position of the Layman; Encyclopredias ignore our Problem ?; Recent Research on the Date of the Nativity; The Pilate Date; In the Acts; In the Pastoral Epistles; Van :Manen on Pauline Literature; The Pilate Tradition in the Gospels ; The" Oldest " Written Gospel ; The Date of the " Common Document"; The Strength of the Tradition ; PAGE; 1; 2; 3;Read More