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Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth [Paperback] Mack, Burton L

The Making of the Christian MythCommencing in mid February 2004, SBS TV Australia will run a twopart documentary based on this titleIn this groundbreaking and controversial book, Burton Mack brilliantly exposes how the Gospels are fictional mythologies created by different communities for various purposes and are only distantly related to the actual historical JesusMacks innovative scholarship which boldly challenges traditional Christian understanding will change the way you approach the New Testament and think about how Christianity aroseThe clarity of Macks prose and the intelligent pursuit of his subject make compelling reading Macks investigation of the various groups and strands of the early Christian community out of which were generated the texts of Christianitys first anthology of religious literature and makes sense of a topic that has been confusing