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Janie Fountain New Library
Luther W. New Junior Theological College

The Jesus Mysteries : Was the "original Jesus" a Pagan God? /

Freke, Timothy, 1959-

The Jesus Mysteries : Was the "original Jesus" a Pagan God? / Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy - 1st American pbk. ed - New York, N.Y. : Three Rivers Press, 2001 - 343 p., [8] p. of plates : Spiral

"Originally published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd., in 1999"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-328) and index

The unthinkable thought -- The pagan mysteries -- Diabolical mimicry -- Perfected platonism -- The Gnostics -- The Jesus code -- The missing man -- Was Paul a gnostic -- The Jewish mysteries -- The Jesus myth -- An imitation church -- The greatest story ever told -- Bibliography

Two scholars explore the role of ancient pagan mystery cults in the early Christian Church, concluding that the early Christians may have hailed from a Jewish version of a very ancient pagan sect

0609807986 : 9780609807989


Jesus Christ--Historicity


Christianity and other religions--Greek
Mysteries, Religious


Greece--Religion

232.9 / F867

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