The Christian Myth

by Burton L. Mack

Book Overview

This book traces Burton Mack's intellectual evolution, from a creative analyst of ancient texts, to a scholar searching for the motives and interests of Jesus's followers who composed those texts, and for the social logic of "the Christian myths" they created. Mack rejects depictions of Jesus that have emerged from the quest for the "historical Jesus"--peasant teacher, revolutionary leader, mystical visionary or miracle-working prophet--on the grounds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826415431
• ISBN13: 9780826415431
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"