The Christ Myth :: CONTENTS

CONTENTS

I.	The Influence of Parseeism on the Belief in a Messiah	37
II.	The Hellenistic Idea of a Mediator (Philo)	46
III.	Jesus as Cult-God in the Creed of Jewish Sects	51
IV.	The Sufferings of the Messiah	64
V.	The Birth of the Messiah. The Baptism	88
VI.	The Self-Offering of the Messiah. The Supper	128
VII.	Symbols of the Messiah. The Lamb and the Cross	140

I.	The Pauline Jesus			165
II.	The Jesus of the Gospels			214
	a.	The Synoptic Jesus		214
			Jesus in Secular Literature	230
	b.	The Objections against a Denial of the Historicity of the Synoptic Jesus		235
	c.	The True Character of the Synoptic Jesus		265
	d.	Gnosticism and the Johannine Jesus		273

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