The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity

[Brakeman]

I've been reading a good book that I wanted to recommend to all of you.

It's by Hyam MacCoby, a jewish religious studies author. The book is quite old and the reviews on different sites vary wildly. Of course the christians hate it and wikipedia currently downs it to but the critics only give general disdain and their accusations are quite unfounded. If one reads the book, they see that he makes few direct claims, he just points out hundreds of points of evidence that indicate that paul was not a jew, and certainly not a Pharisaic jew as he claimed. Furthermore he points out where the gospels evolved from a pro pharasee stance to an anti. It further explains that many of jesus' ideas and main sayings were from older Pharisee writings.

[Minimalist]

Many of "jesus'" main ideas were borrowed from the Greeks.

[Boris Karloff]

Paul was a fucking nutcase anyway.