The Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ; a Lecture

Great book on the subject, with an authoritative author on the subject. Much more in depth than Harpur, the only one I like even more is 'Lost Light: An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures' by Alvin Boyd Kuhn. Massey does an excellent job of showing the correlations between Ancient Egyptian texts and the Bible. An eye opener to say the least, more people need to educate themselves on the subject so the truth shine through the darkness.

Gerald Massey is a scholar's scholar. He has disected not just the important aspects about Jesus the myth, but has gone to every little insignificant things and showed how it relates to some other world myth. This ranges from the 12 followers, to Jesus the bibical myth spreading the fish and bread among 5 thousand people. It is important to realize that the beggining formula for the christ myth, as well as many others began in Egypt. I will use the example from the book, in that Jesus doesn't appear until he is 12 in the tabernacle. In Egypt boys wore the Horus tail until they were 12. Also Jesus didn't appear again until 30 years of age. In Egypt boys became men at about the age 30. These are just a few I will say to give you a feal of what the book is about. To learn more, open your minds beleievers and nonbelievers, and just unmask this book.

Massey is always very adamant and almost ruthless in approach. That is NOT why I think this is an excellent book, though. Using his immense skill as an Egyptologist, Massey shows us incredible links to the Jesus story. Like other books I have read on paganism, the linkage is unignorable. One must read this to gain a perspective on the links between ancient religions and Christianity.