The Truth About Jesus. Is He a Myth?
M. M. Mangasarian
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The following work offers in book form the series of studies on the question of the historicity of Jesus, presented from time to time before the Independent Religious Society in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, 1909. No effort has been made to change the manner of the spoken, into the more regular form of the written, word. (Summary by M.M. Mangasarian (1859-1943) and Joanne Pauwels) (5 hr 40 min)
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Excellent book
Reversatire
Very well researched, this book presents some compelling arguments that show how little we really can prove regarding the existence of historical Jesus.
Uneven Summary of the Mythicist Position
Scott Knickelbine
Mangasarian manages to get in the most pertinent arguments against the historicity of Jesus, but this work has not aged well. Especially offensive is his prolonged defense of Paganism as a more appropriate religion for the West, as opposed to the "Asiatic" attitudes revealed in Christianity. How Mangasarian can laud the intellectual achievements of classical Greece while overlooking the fact that the New Testament is a work of Hellenism is beyond me, but the argument is racist to it's core.
Well Well
LibriVoxReviewer
This argument seems entirely driven by racist attitudes towards the Eastern part of the world.