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This is a partial list of people who have been categorized as Christ myth theory proponents, the belief that "the historical Jesus did not exist. Or if he did, he had virtually nothing to do with the founding of Christianity".^[1]

A

John M. Allegro (1923–1988) – English archaeologist.^[2]

B

Dan Barker (born 1949) – American atheist activist.^[3]
Bruno Bauer (1809–1882) – German philosopher and historian.^[4]
Albert Bayet (1880–1961) – French sociologist.^[5]
Gustaaf Adolf van den Bergh van Eysinga (1874–1957) – Dutch theologian.^[6]
Gerard Bolland (1854–1922) – Dutch philosopher and scholar.^[7]
Georg Brandes (1842–1927) – Danish literary critic.^[8]
Thomas L. Brodie (born 1943) – Irish Roman Catholic priest.^[9]

C

Richard Carlile – English journalist, radical and secularist.^[10]
Richard Carrier (born 1969) – American historian.^[11]
Paul-Louis Couchoud (1879–1959) – French philosopher.^[12]

D

Earl Doherty (born 1941) – Canadian writer.^[13]
Arthur Drews (1865–1935) – German historian and philosopher.
Édouard Dujardin (1861–1949) – French novelist and writer.^[14]
Charles-François Dupuis (1742–1809) – French scientist.^[15]

E

Alvar Ellegård (1919–2008) – Swedish linguist.^[16]

F

David Fitzgerald (born 1964) – American atheist activist and writer.^[17]
Brian Flemming (born 1966) – American film director.^[18]

G

Peter Gandy – British writer.^[19]
Marshall Gauvin (1881–1978) – Canadian atheist and freethought writer.^[20]
Gilbert T. Sadler (1871–1939) – British Congregational minister.^[21]
Kersey Graves (1813–1883) – American freethought writer.^[22]
Edward Greenly (1861–1951) – English geologist.^[23]

H

Tom Harpur (1929–2017) – Canadian theologian and writer.^[24]
Arthur Heulhard (1849–1920) – French journalist.^[25]
Edward Johnson (1842–1901) – English historian.^[26]

K

Albert Kalthoff (1850–1906) – German Protestant theologian.^[15]
Shūsui Kōtoku (1871–1911) – Japanese socialist and anarchist.^[27]
Sergey Kovalev (1886–1960) – Russian scholar of classical antiquity.^[28]
Iosif Kryvelev (1906–1991) – Russian historian of Judaism and Christianity.^[29]
Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880–1963) – American Theosophist.^[30]

L

Raphael Lataster – (born 1984) – Australian academic and writer.^[31]
Harold Leidner (1916–2008) – American patent attorney.^[32]
Logan Mitchell (1802–1881) – British freethinker.^[33]
Abraham Dirk Loman (1823–1897) – Dutch theologian.^[34]
Samuel Lublinski (1868–1910) – Literary historian, critic, and philosopher of religion.^[35]

M

M. M. Mangasarian (1859–1943) – American rationalist and secularist.^[36]
Michael Martin (1932–2015) – American philosopher.^[37]
Gerald Massey (1828–1907) – English poet and spiritualist.
Dennis McKinsey (1940–2009) – American atheist writer.^[38]
Michael Paulkovich – American inventor and aerospace engineer.^[39]
Myles McSweeney (1814–1881) – Irish Chartist, mythologist and secularist writer.^[40]

N

Andrzej Niemojewski (1864–1921) – Polish social and political activist.^[41]

O

Michel Onfray (born 1959) – French philosopher.^[42]

P

Peter Jensen (1861–1936) – German orientalist.^[43]
Allard Pierson (1831–1896) – Dutch theologian and historian.^[15]
Robert M. Price (born 1954) – American theologian and writer.^[44]

R

Abram Ranovich (1885–1948) – Russian scholar of classical antiquity and religion.^[28]
Salomon Reinach (1858–1932) – French archaeologist.
Samuel Maximilian Rieser (1893–1981) – American lawyer and philosopher.^[45]
Jonathan M. Roberts (1821–1888) – American lawyer and spiritualist medium.^[46]
J. M. Robertson (1856–1933) - Scottish journalist, politician and writer.^[47]
Rudolf Steck (1842–1924) – Swiss reformed theologian.^[48]
Nikolai Rumyantsev (1892–1956) – Russian historian.
L. Gordon Rylands – British criminologist and writer.^[14]

S

Acharya S (1961–2015) – American writer.^[49]
Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb (1841–1895) – American genealogist and writer.^[50]
William Benjamin Smith (1850–1934) – professor of mathematics.^[15]

T

Robert Taylor (1784–1844) – Freethinker and radical.^[51]
Thomas L. Thompson (born 1939) – Danish Biblical scholar and theologian.^[52]
Farrell Till (1933–2012) – American skeptic.^[53]

V

Charles Virolleaud (1879–1968) – French archaeologist.^[54]
Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757–1820) – French historian and philosopher.^[15]

W

Barbara G. Walker (born 1930) – American feminist writer.^[55]
George Albert Wells (1926–2017) – English Professor of German and writer.^[56]
Joseph Wheless (1868–1950) – American lawyer.^[57]
Thomas Whittaker (1856–1935) – English metaphysician and critic.^[47]
Robert Wipper (1859–1954) – Russian historian.^[28]

Z

Frank Zindler (born 1939) – American atheist writer.^[58]

References

^ Ehrman, Bart D. (2012). Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth. HarperOne. ISBN 978-0062206442 pp. 12, 347, n. 1. "[Per Jesus mythicism] In a recent exhaustive elaboration of the position, one of the leading proponents of Jesus mythicism, Earl Doherty, defines the view as follows: it is “the theory that no historical Jesus worthy of the name existed, that Christianity began with a belief in a spiritual, mythical figure, that the Gospels are essentially allegory and fiction, and that no single identifiable person lay at the root of the Galilean preaching tradition.” [Jesus: Neither God nor Man: The Case for a mythical Jesus (Ottawa, ON: Age of Reason Publications, 2009), vii-viii.] In simpler terms, the historical Jesus did not exist. Or if he did, he had virtually nothing to do with the founding of Christianity."
^ Novenson, Matthew V. (2017). The Grammar of Messianism: An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users. Oxford University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0190255022
^ "Debunking the Historical Jesus". Freedom From Religion Foundation.
^ Beilby, James K; Eddy, Paul Rhodes. The Quest for the Historical Jesus. In James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy. (2009). The Historical Jesus: Five Views. pp. 16-18. ISBN 978-0830838684
^ Alfaric, Prosper; Bayet, Albert; Couchoud, Paul-Louis. (1932). Le Problème de Jésus et les Origines du Christianisme, with Prosper Alfaric. Paris: Bibliothèque Rationaliste
^ Whittaker, Thomas. (1934). Prof. G.A. van den Bergh van Eysinga. Nieuw Theologisch Tijdschrift. 34.
^ McCown, Chester Charlton. (1940). The Search for the Real Jesus: A Century of Historical Study. Scribner. p. 75
^ Weaver, Walter P. (1999). The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1950. Trinity Press International. p. 300. ISBN 1-56338-280-6
^ Brodie, Thomas L. (2012). Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery. Sheffield Phoenix Press.
^ Carlile, Richard. (1826). To Mr. J. R. Beard, Unitarian Preacher, Manchester. The Republican 13 (3): 65-72.
^ Casey, Maurice. (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Bloomsbury. pp. 14-16. ISBN 978-0-56759-224-8
^ Ziolkowski, Theodore. (2002 edition). Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus. Wipf & Stock Publishers. pp. 145-147. ISBN 978-1579109318
^ Casey, Maurice. (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Bloomsbury. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-56759-224-8
^ ^a ^b McCabe, Joseph. (1950). A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science. Watts & Co. p. 334
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Van Voorst, Robert E. (2000). Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence . Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. pp. 7-12. ISBN 0-8028-4368-9
^ Ellegård, Alvar. (1992). Myten om Jesus: den tidigaste kristendomen i nytt ljus. Bonniers. ISBN 91-34-51245-4
^ Tarico, Valerie (12 April 2017). "What if Jesus Never Existed? An Interview with History Writer David Fitzgerald". ValerieTarico.com.
^ The God Who Wasn't There, 2005.
^ Casey, Maurice. (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Bloomsbury. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-56759-224-8
^ Gauvin, Marshall. (1922). Jesus Christ Really Live? Peter Eckler Publishing Company.
^ A. F. (1917). Reviewed Work: The Origin and Meaning of Christianity by Gilbert T. Sadler. International Journal of Ethics 28 (1): 131-132.
^ Graves, Kersey (1875). The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors. Freethought Press.
^ Stein, Gordon. (1980). An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism. Prometheus Books. p. 185. ISBN 978-0879752569
^ Evans, Craig A. (2012). Jesus and His World: The Archaeological Evidence. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-664-23413-3
^ Goguel, Maurice. (1926). Jesus The Nazarene: Myth Or History? D. Appleton & Company. Footnote 41. p. 20
^ Radicalism in England: Johnson from "The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present" by Arthur Drews.
^ Tierney, Robert Thomas; Shusui, Kotoku. (2015). Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kotoku Shusui and Japan's First Anti-Imperialist Movement. University of California Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-0520286344
^ ^a ^b ^c А. В. Андреев (2015). "Дискуссия об историчности Иисуса Христа в советском религиоведении" (PDF). Вестник ПСТГУ (in Russian). Retrieved 1 November 2017.
^ Гололоб Г. "Богословие и национальный вопрос" (in Russian). Библиотека Гумер. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
^ Harpur, Tom. (2004). The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers. ISBN 0-88762-145-7
^ Gibson, David. (2014). "Forget Santa Claus, Virginia. Was there a Jesus Christ?". Deseret News. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
^ Casey, Maurice. (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Bloomsbury. pp. 20-21. ISBN 978-0-56759-224-8
^ Mitchell, Logan. (1881). Religion in the Heavens; Or, Mythology Unveiled. London: Freethought Publishing Company.
^ A.J. Allan (1995). "A Forgotten Chapter: the Radicals". Kerk & Wereld. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Weaver, Walter P. (1999). The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1950. Trinity Press International. p. 69. ISBN 1-56338-280-6
^ Mangasarian, M. M. (1909). The Truth About Jesus, Is He a Myth? Chicago: Independent Religious Society.
^ Eddy, Paul Rhodes; Boyd, Gregory A. (2007). The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition. Baker Academic. p. 166. ISBN 978-0801031144
^ McKinsey, Dennis. (1995). The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy. Prometheus Books. p. 108. ISBN 978-0879759261
^ "Jesus Was 'Urban Legend' - Claims Historian Michael Paulkovich". International Business Times.
^ Davies, Charles Maurice. (1874). Heterodox London: Or, Phases of Free Thought in the Metropolis. London: Tinsley Brothers. pp. 111-120
^ Schweitzer, Albert. (1913, 2nd edition). The Quest of the Historical Jesus. Auflage. p. 451
^ Metro.co.uk, Rob Waugh for (12 April 2017). "'Jesus never actually existed at all,' controversial French author argues". Metro.
^ Smith, Warren Allen. (2000). Who's Who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists, and Non-theists. Barricade Books. p. 590. ISBN 978-1569801581
^ Price, Robert M. (2011). Conclusion: Do You “No” Jesus?. In The Christ-Myth Theory and Its Problems. American Atheist Press. p. 425. ISBN 978-1-57884-017-5
^ Rieser, Max. (1979). The True Founder of Christianity and the Hellenistic Philosophy. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
^ Spearman, Gretta. (1996). There Was No Jesus: The Teacher of the New Testament was Apollonius of Tyana: Also the Truth about Ancient History and Jewish History: Extracted from the Book Antiquity Unveiled by Jonathan M. Roberts. Health Research Books.
^ ^a ^b Hawton, Hector. (1971). Controversy: The Humanist/Christian Encounter. Pemberton Books. p. 173. ISBN 978-0301710211
^ O'Neill, J. C. (1991). Bible's Authority: A Portrait Gallery of Thinkers from Lessing to Bultmann. Clark. p. 164
^ Casey, Maurice. (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Bloomsbury. pp. 21-22. ISBN 978-0-56759-224-8
^ Anonymous. (1890). Aryan Sun-Myths the Origin of Religions. The Open Court 4: 2555.
^ Jongeneel, Jan A. B. (2009). Jesus Christ in World History: His Presence and Representation in Cyclical and Linear Settings. Peter Lang. p. 210. ISBN 978-3-631-59688-3
^ Thompson, Thomas L; Verenna, Thomas S. (2014). Is This Not the Carpenter?: The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus. Routledge. ISBN 978-1844657292
^ Till, Farrell. (1995). The Historicity of Jesus. Skeptical Review: Issue 4.
^ Case, Shirley Jackson. (1912). The Historicity of Jesus: A Criticism of the Contention that Jesus Never Lived, a Statement of the Evidence for His Existence, an Estimate of His Relation to Christianity. University of Chicago Press. p. 39
^ Walker, Barbara G. (1983). Jesus Christ. In The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. Harper & Row. 464-465. ISBN 0-06-250926-8
^ Casey, Maurice. (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Bloomsbury. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-56759-224-8
^ Wheless, Joseph. (1930). Forgery In Christianity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
^ Zindler, Frank; Price, Robert M. (2013). Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth: An Evaluation of Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist? American Atheist Press. ISBN 978-1578840199

[1] Ehrman, Bart D. (2012). Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth. HarperOne. ISBN 978-0062206442 pp. 12, 347, n. 1. "[Per Jesus mythicism] In a recent exhaustive elaboration of the position, one of the leading proponents of Jesus mythicism, Earl Doherty, defines the view as follows: it is “the theory that no historical Jesus worthy of the name existed, that Christianity began with a belief in a spiritual, mythical figure, that the Gospels are essentially allegory and fiction, and that no single identifiable person lay at the root of the Galilean preaching tradition.” [Jesus: Neither God nor Man: The Case for a mythical Jesus (Ottawa, ON: Age of Reason Publications, 2009), vii-viii.] In simpler terms, the historical Jesus did not exist. Or if he did, he had virtually nothing to do with the founding of Christianity."

[2] Novenson, Matthew V. (2017). The Grammar of Messianism: An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users. Oxford University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0190255022

[3] "Debunking the Historical Jesus". Freedom From Religion Foundation.

[4] Beilby, James K; Eddy, Paul Rhodes. The Quest for the Historical Jesus. In James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy. (2009). The Historical Jesus: Five Views. pp. 16-18. ISBN 978-0830838684

[5] Alfaric, Prosper; Bayet, Albert; Couchoud, Paul-Louis. (1932). Le Problème de Jésus et les Origines du Christianisme, with Prosper Alfaric. Paris: Bibliothèque Rationaliste

[6] Whittaker, Thomas. (1934). Prof. G.A. van den Bergh van Eysinga. Nieuw Theologisch Tijdschrift. 34.

[7] McCown, Chester Charlton. (1940). The Search for the Real Jesus: A Century of Historical Study. Scribner. p. 75

[8] Weaver, Walter P. (1999). The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1950. Trinity Press International. p. 300. ISBN 1-56338-280-6

[9] Brodie, Thomas L. (2012). Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery. Sheffield Phoenix Press.

[10] Carlile, Richard. (1826). To Mr. J. R. Beard, Unitarian Preacher, Manchester. The Republican 13 (3): 65-72.

[11] Casey, Maurice. (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Bloomsbury. pp. 14-16. ISBN 978-0-56759-224-8

[12] Ziolkowski, Theodore. (2002 edition). Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus. Wipf & Stock Publishers. pp. 145-147. ISBN 978-1579109318

[13] Casey, Maurice. (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Bloomsbury. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-56759-224-8

[McCabe_1950-14] McCabe, Joseph. (1950). A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science. Watts & Co. p. 334

[Voorst_2000-15] Van Voorst, Robert E. (2000). Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence . Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. pp. 7-12. ISBN 0-8028-4368-9

[16] Ellegård, Alvar. (1992). Myten om Jesus: den tidigaste kristendomen i nytt ljus. Bonniers. ISBN 91-34-51245-4

[17] Tarico, Valerie (12 April 2017). "What if Jesus Never Existed? An Interview with History Writer David Fitzgerald". ValerieTarico.com.

[18] The God Who Wasn't There, 2005.

[19] Casey, Maurice. (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Bloomsbury. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-56759-224-8

[20] Gauvin, Marshall. (1922). Jesus Christ Really Live? Peter Eckler Publishing Company.

[21] A. F. (1917). Reviewed Work: The Origin and Meaning of Christianity by Gilbert T. Sadler. International Journal of Ethics 28 (1): 131-132.

[22] Graves, Kersey (1875). The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors. Freethought Press.

[23] Stein, Gordon. (1980). An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism. Prometheus Books. p. 185. ISBN 978-0879752569

[24] Evans, Craig A. (2012). Jesus and His World: The Archaeological Evidence. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-664-23413-3

[25] Goguel, Maurice. (1926). Jesus The Nazarene: Myth Or History? D. Appleton & Company. Footnote 41. p. 20

[26] Radicalism in England: Johnson from "The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present" by Arthur Drews.

[27] Tierney, Robert Thomas; Shusui, Kotoku. (2015). Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kotoku Shusui and Japan's First Anti-Imperialist Movement. University of California Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-0520286344

[Андреев_2015-28] А. В. Андреев (2015). "Дискуссия об историчности Иисуса Христа в советском религиоведении" (PDF). Вестник ПСТГУ (in Russian). Retrieved 1 November 2017.

[29] Гололоб Г. "Богословие и национальный вопрос" (in Russian). Библиотека Гумер. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

[30] Harpur, Tom. (2004). The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers. ISBN 0-88762-145-7

[31] Gibson, David. (2014). "Forget Santa Claus, Virginia. Was there a Jesus Christ?". Deseret News. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

[32] Casey, Maurice. (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Bloomsbury. pp. 20-21. ISBN 978-0-56759-224-8

[33] Mitchell, Logan. (1881). Religion in the Heavens; Or, Mythology Unveiled. London: Freethought Publishing Company.

[34] A.J. Allan (1995). "A Forgotten Chapter: the Radicals". Kerk & Wereld. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[35] Weaver, Walter P. (1999). The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1950. Trinity Press International. p. 69. ISBN 1-56338-280-6

[36] Mangasarian, M. M. (1909). The Truth About Jesus, Is He a Myth? Chicago: Independent Religious Society.

[37] Eddy, Paul Rhodes; Boyd, Gregory A. (2007). The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition. Baker Academic. p. 166. ISBN 978-0801031144

[38] McKinsey, Dennis. (1995). The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy. Prometheus Books. p. 108. ISBN 978-0879759261

[39] "Jesus Was 'Urban Legend' - Claims Historian Michael Paulkovich". International Business Times.

[40] Davies, Charles Maurice. (1874). Heterodox London: Or, Phases of Free Thought in the Metropolis. London: Tinsley Brothers. pp. 111-120

[41] Schweitzer, Albert. (1913, 2nd edition). The Quest of the Historical Jesus. Auflage. p. 451

[42] Metro.co.uk, Rob Waugh for (12 April 2017). "'Jesus never actually existed at all,' controversial French author argues". Metro.

[43] Smith, Warren Allen. (2000). Who's Who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists, and Non-theists. Barricade Books. p. 590. ISBN 978-1569801581

[44] Price, Robert M. (2011). Conclusion: Do You “No” Jesus?. In The Christ-Myth Theory and Its Problems. American Atheist Press. p. 425. ISBN 978-1-57884-017-5

[45] Rieser, Max. (1979). The True Founder of Christianity and the Hellenistic Philosophy. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

[46] Spearman, Gretta. (1996). There Was No Jesus: The Teacher of the New Testament was Apollonius of Tyana: Also the Truth about Ancient History and Jewish History: Extracted from the Book Antiquity Unveiled by Jonathan M. Roberts. Health Research Books.

[Hawton_1971-47] Hawton, Hector. (1971). Controversy: The Humanist/Christian Encounter. Pemberton Books. p. 173. ISBN 978-0301710211

[48] O'Neill, J. C. (1991). Bible's Authority: A Portrait Gallery of Thinkers from Lessing to Bultmann. Clark. p. 164

[49] Casey, Maurice. (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Bloomsbury. pp. 21-22. ISBN 978-0-56759-224-8

[50] Anonymous. (1890). Aryan Sun-Myths the Origin of Religions. The Open Court 4: 2555.

[51] Jongeneel, Jan A. B. (2009). Jesus Christ in World History: His Presence and Representation in Cyclical and Linear Settings. Peter Lang. p. 210. ISBN 978-3-631-59688-3

[52] Thompson, Thomas L; Verenna, Thomas S. (2014). Is This Not the Carpenter?: The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus. Routledge. ISBN 978-1844657292

[53] Till, Farrell. (1995). The Historicity of Jesus. Skeptical Review: Issue 4.

[54] Case, Shirley Jackson. (1912). The Historicity of Jesus: A Criticism of the Contention that Jesus Never Lived, a Statement of the Evidence for His Existence, an Estimate of His Relation to Christianity. University of Chicago Press. p. 39

[55] Walker, Barbara G. (1983). Jesus Christ. In The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. Harper & Row. 464-465. ISBN 0-06-250926-8

[56] Casey, Maurice. (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Bloomsbury. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-56759-224-8

[57] Wheless, Joseph. (1930). Forgery In Christianity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

[58] Zindler, Frank; Price, Robert M. (2013). Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth: An Evaluation of Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist? American Atheist Press. ISBN 978-1578840199

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+This is a partial '''list of people''' who have been categorized as [[Christ myth theory]] proponents, the belief that "the [[historical Jesus]] did not exist. Or if he did, he had virtually nothing to do with the founding of Christianity".<ref>[[Bart D. Ehrman|Ehrman, Bart D]]. (2012). ''[[Did Jesus Exist? (Ehrman)|Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth]]''. HarperOne. ISBN 978-0062206442 pp. 12, 347, n. 1. "[Per Jesus mythicism] In a recent exhaustive elaboration of the position, one of the leading proponents of Jesus mythicism, Earl Doherty, defines the view as follows: it is “the theory that no historical Jesus worthy of the name existed, that Christianity began with a belief in a spiritual, mythical figure, that the Gospels are essentially allegory and fiction, and that no single identifiable person lay at the root of the Galilean preaching tradition.” [Jesus: Neither God nor Man: The Case for a mythical Jesus (Ottawa, ON: Age of Reason Publications, 2009), vii-viii.] In simpler terms, the historical Jesus did not exist. Or if he did, he had virtually nothing to do with the founding of Christianity."</ref>
-#REDIRECT [[Category:Christ myth theory proponents]]
+{{compact ToC|side=no|top=yes|num=no|seealso=no|extlinks=no|refs=yes}}
+==A==
+[[File:John Marco Allegro.jpg|thumb|right|120px|[[John Marco Allegro]]]]
+*[[John M. Allegro]] (1923–1988) – English [[archaeologist]].<ref>Novenson, Matthew V. (2017). ''The Grammar of Messianism: An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users''. Oxford University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0190255022</ref>
+==B==
+[[File:Bruno Bauer.jpg|thumb|right|120px|[[Bruno Bauer]]]]
+*[[Dan Barker]] (born 1949) – American [[Atheism|atheist]] activist.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171027034342/https://ffrf.org/faq/feeds/item/18412-debunking-the-historical-jesus "Debunking the Historical Jesus"]. Freedom From Religion Foundation.</ref>
+*[[Bruno Bauer]] (1809–1882) – German [[philosopher]] and historian.<ref>Beilby, James K; Eddy, Paul Rhodes. ''The Quest for the Historical Jesus''. In James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy. (2009). ''The Historical Jesus: Five Views''. pp. 16-18. ISBN 978-0830838684</ref>
+*[[Albert Bayet]] (1880–1961) – French [[sociologist]].<ref>Alfaric, Prosper; Bayet, Albert; Couchoud, Paul-Louis. (1932). ''Le Problème de Jésus et les Origines du Christianisme, with Prosper Alfaric''. Paris: Bibliothèque Rationaliste</ref>
+*[[Gustaaf Adolf van den Bergh van Eysinga]] (1874–1957) – Dutch [[theologian]].<ref>Whittaker, Thomas. (1934). ''Prof. G.A. van den Bergh van Eysinga''. Nieuw Theologisch Tijdschrift. 34.</ref>
+*[[Gerard Bolland]] (1854–1922) – Dutch philosopher and scholar.<ref>McCown, Chester Charlton. (1940). ''The Search for the Real Jesus: A Century of Historical Study''. Scribner. p. 75</ref>
+*[[Georg Brandes]] (1842–1927) – Danish [[literary critic]].<ref>Weaver, Walter P. (1999). ''The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1950''. Trinity Press International. p. 300. ISBN 1-56338-280-6</ref>
+*[[Thomas L. Brodie]] (born 1943) – Irish [[Priesthood in the Catholic Church|Roman Catholic priest]].<ref>Brodie, Thomas L. (2012). ''Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery''. Sheffield Phoenix Press.</ref>
+==C==
+*[[Richard Carlile]] – English [[journalist]], [[Radicalism (historical)|radical]] and [[secularist]].<ref>Carlile, Richard. (1826). ''To Mr. J. R. Beard, Unitarian Preacher, Manchester''. ''The Republican'' 13 (3): 65-72.</ref>
+*[[Richard Carrier]] (born 1969) – American historian.<ref>[[Maurice Casey|Casey, Maurice]]. (2014). ''Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?'' [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]]. pp. 14-16. {{ISBN|978-0-56759-224-8}}</ref>
+*[[Paul-Louis Couchoud]]  (1879–1959) – French philosopher.<ref>[[Theodore Ziolkowski|Ziolkowski, Theodore]]. (2002 edition). ''Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus''. Wipf & Stock Publishers. pp. 145-147. ISBN 978-1579109318</ref>
+==D==
+[[File:Arthur Drews.jpg|thumb|right|120px|[[Arthur Drews]]]]
+*[[Earl Doherty]] (born 1941) – Canadian writer.<ref>[[Maurice Casey|Casey, Maurice]]. (2014). ''Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?'' [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]]. p. 16. {{ISBN|978-0-56759-224-8}}</ref>
+*[[Arthur Drews]] (1865–1935) – German historian and philosopher.
+*[[Édouard Dujardin]] (1861–1949) – French [[novelist]] and writer.<ref name="McCabe 1950">[[Joseph McCabe|McCabe, Joseph]]. (1950). ''A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science''. Watts & Co. p. 334</ref>
+*[[Charles-François Dupuis]] (1742–1809) – French [[scientist]].<ref name= "Voorst 2000">[[Robert E. Van Voorst|Van Voorst, Robert E]]. (2000). ''Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence'' . Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. pp. 7-12. {{ISBN|0-8028-4368-9}}</ref>
+==E==
+*[[Alvar Ellegård]] (1919–2008) – Swedish [[linguist]].<ref>Ellegård, Alvar. (1992). ''Myten om Jesus: den tidigaste kristendomen i nytt ljus''. Bonniers. ISBN 91-34-51245-4</ref>
+==F==
+*[[David Fitzgerald (author)|David Fitzgerald]] (born 1964) – American atheist activist and writer.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Tarico|first1=Valerie|title=What if Jesus Never Existed? An Interview with History Writer David Fitzgerald|url=https://valerietarico.com/2017/04/12/what-if-jesus-never-existed-an-interview-with-history-writer-david-fitzgerald/|website=ValerieTarico.com|date=12 April 2017}}</ref>
+*[[Brian Flemming]] (born 1966) – American [[film director]].<ref>''The God Who Wasn't There'', 2005.</ref>
+==G==
+[[File:Edward Greenly.png|thumb|right|120px|[[Edward Greenly]]]]
+*[[Peter Gandy (author)|Peter Gandy]] – British writer.<ref>[[Maurice Casey|Casey, Maurice]]. (2014). ''Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?'' [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]]. p. 17. {{ISBN|978-0-56759-224-8}}</ref>
+*[[Marshall Gauvin]] (1881–1978) – Canadian atheist and freethought writer.<ref>Gauvin, Marshall. (1922). ''Jesus Christ Really Live?'' Peter Eckler Publishing Company.</ref>
+*[[Gilbert T. Sadler]] (1871–1939) – British [[Congregational church|Congregational minister]].<ref>A. F. (1917). ''Reviewed Work: The Origin and Meaning of Christianity by Gilbert T. Sadler''. ''[[International Journal of Ethics]]'' 28 (1): 131-132.</ref>
+*[[Kersey Graves]] (1813–1883) – American freethought writer.<ref>Graves, Kersey (1875). ''[[The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors]]''. Freethought Press.</ref>
+*[[Edward Greenly]] (1861–1951) – English [[geologist]].<ref>[[Gordon Stein|Stein, Gordon]]. (1980). ''An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism''. Prometheus Books. p. 185. ISBN 978-0879752569</ref>
+==H==
+[[File:Photo of Tom Harpur by Hugh Wesley.jpg|thumb|right|120px|[[Tom Harpur]]]]
+*[[Tom Harpur]] (1929–2017) – Canadian theologian and writer.<ref>[[Craig A. Evans|Evans, Craig A]]. (2012). ''Jesus and His World: The Archaeological Evidence''. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 5. {{ISBN|978-0-664-23413-3}}</ref>
+*[[Arthur Heulhard]] (1849–1920) – French [[journalist]].<ref>[[Maurice Goguel|Goguel, Maurice]]. (1926). ''Jesus The Nazarene: Myth Or History?'' D. Appleton & Company. Footnote 41. p. 20</ref>
+*[[Edwin Johnson (historian)|Edward Johnson]] (1842–1901) – English [[historian]].<ref>[http://www.egodeath.com/drewshistorymythiconlyjesus.htm#_Toc51777081 Radicalism in England: Johnson from "The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present"] by [[Arthur Drews]].</ref>
+==K==
+*[[Albert Kalthoff]] (1850–1906) – German Protestant theologian.<ref name= "Voorst 2000"/>
+*[[Shūsui Kōtoku]] (1871–1911) – Japanese [[socialist]] and [[anarchist]].<ref>Tierney, Robert Thomas; Shusui, Kotoku. (2015). ''Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kotoku Shusui and Japan's First Anti-Imperialist Movement''. University of California Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-0520286344</ref>
+*[[Sergey Kovalev (historian)|Sergey Kovalev]] (1886–1960) – Russian scholar of [[classical antiquity]].<ref name="Андреев 2015">{{cite web | url =http://pstgu.ru/download/1430825026.5_andreev_73-88.pdf |title=Дискуссия об историчности Иисуса Христа в советском религиоведении|author=А. В. Андреев|work=Вестник ПСТГУ|language=Russian| date=2015| accessdate =1 November 2017}}</ref>
+*[[Iosif Kryvelev]] (1906–1991) – Russian historian of Judaism and Christianity.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.gumer.info/bogoslov_Buks/bogoslov/Golol/03.php|title=Богословие и национальный вопрос|author=Гололоб Г.|publisher=Библиотека Гумер| language=Russian| accessdate =1 November 2017}}</ref>
+*[[Alvin Boyd Kuhn]] (1880–1963) – American [[Theosophist]].<ref>Harpur, Tom. (2004). ''[[The Pagan Christ]]: Recovering the Lost Light''. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers. {{ISBN|0-88762-145-7}}</ref>
+==L==
+[[File:Samuel Lublinski.png|thumb|right|120px|[[Samuel Lublinski]]]]
+*[[Raphael Lataster]] – (born 1984) – Australian academic and writer.<ref>Gibson, David. (2014). [http://national.deseretnews.com/article/3060/forget-santa-claus-virginia-was-there-a-jesus-christ.html "Forget Santa Claus, Virginia. Was there a Jesus Christ?"]. ''[[Deseret News]]''. Retrieved 1 November 2017.</ref>
+*[[Harold Leidner]] (1916–2008) – American [[patent attorney]].<ref>[[Maurice Casey|Casey, Maurice]]. (2014). ''Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?'' [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]]. pp. 20-21. {{ISBN|978-0-56759-224-8}}</ref>
+*[[Logan Mitchell (freethinker)|Logan Mitchell]] (1802–1881) – British freethinker.<ref>Mitchell, Logan. (1881). ''Religion in the Heavens; Or, Mythology Unveiled''. London: Freethought Publishing Company.</ref>
+*[[Abraham Dirk Loman]] (1823–1897) – Dutch theologian.<ref>{{cite journal|author=A.J. Allan |url=http://www.radikalkritik.de/A_forgotten_chapter.htm |title=A Forgotten Chapter: the Radicals |journal=Kerk & Wereld |year=1995 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717072449/http://www.radikalkritik.de/A_forgotten_chapter.htm |archivedate=2011-07-17}}</ref>
+*[[Samuel Lublinski]] (1868–1910) – Literary historian, critic, and [[philosopher of religion]].<ref>Weaver, Walter P. (1999). ''The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1950''. Trinity Press International. p. 69. ISBN 1-56338-280-6</ref>
+==M==
+[[File:M. M. Mangasarian.png|thumb|right|120px|[[M. M. Mangasarian]]]]
+*[[M. M. Mangasarian]] (1859–1943) – American [[rationalist]] and secularist.<ref>Mangasarian, M. M. (1909). ''The Truth About Jesus, Is He a Myth?'' Chicago: Independent Religious Society.</ref>
+*[[Michael Martin (philosopher)|Michael Martin]] (1932–2015) – American philosopher.<ref>Eddy, Paul Rhodes; Boyd, Gregory A. (2007). ''The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition''. Baker Academic. p. 166. ISBN 978-0801031144</ref>
+*[[Gerald Massey]] (1828–1907) – English [[poet]] and [[Spiritualism|spiritualist]].
+*[[Dennis McKinsey]] (1940–2009) – American atheist writer.<ref>McKinsey, Dennis. (1995). ''The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy''. Prometheus Books. p. 108. ISBN 978-0879759261</ref>
+*[[Michael Paulkovich]] – American [[inventor]] and aerospace engineer.<ref>[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/jesus-was-urban-legend-claims-historian-michael-paulkovich-1468273 "Jesus Was 'Urban Legend' - Claims Historian Michael Paulkovich"]. International Business Times.</ref>
+*[[Myles McSweeney]] (1814–1881) – Irish [[Chartism|Chartist]], mythologist and secularist writer.<ref>[[Charles Maurice Davies|Davies, Charles Maurice]]. (1874). ''Heterodox London: Or, Phases of Free Thought in the Metropolis''. London: Tinsley Brothers. pp. 111-120</ref>
+==N==
+*[[Andrzej Niemojewski]] (1864–1921) – Polish social and political activist.<ref>[[Albert Schweitzer|Schweitzer, Albert]]. (1913, 2nd edition). ''The Quest of the Historical Jesus''. Auflage. p. 451</ref>
+==O==
+*[[Michel Onfray]] (born 1959) – French [[philosopher]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Metro.co.uk|first1=Rob Waugh for|title=‘Jesus never actually existed at all,’ controversial French author argues|url=http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/12/jesus-never-actually-existed-at-all-controversial-french-author-argues-6571007/|website=Metro|date=12 April 2017}}</ref>
+==P==
+*[[Peter Jensen (Orientalist)|Peter Jensen]] (1861–1936) – German [[orientalist]].<ref>[[Warren Allen Smith|Smith, Warren Allen]]. (2000). ''Who's Who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists, and Non-theists''. [[Barricade Books]]. p. 590. {{ISBN|978-1569801581}}</ref>
+*[[Allard Pierson]] (1831–1896) – Dutch theologian and historian.<ref name= "Voorst 2000"/>
+*[[Robert M. Price]] (born 1954) – American theologian and writer.<ref>Price, Robert M. (2011). ''Conclusion: Do You “No” Jesus?''. In ''The Christ-Myth Theory and Its Problems''. American Atheist Press. p. 425. ISBN 978-1-57884-017-5</ref>
+==R==
+[[File:J. M. Robertson 1909.png|thumb|right|120px|[[J. M. Robertson]]]]
+*[[Abram Ranovich]]  (1885–1948) – Russian scholar of [[classical antiquity]] and religion.<ref name="Андреев 2015"/>
+*[[Salomon Reinach]] (1858–1932) – French archaeologist.
+*[[Samuel Maximilian Rieser]] (1893–1981) – American [[lawyer]] and philosopher.<ref>Rieser, Max. (1979). ''The True Founder of Christianity and the Hellenistic Philosophy''. John Benjamins Publishing Company.</ref>
+*[[Jonathan M. Roberts]] (1821–1888) – American lawyer and spiritualist medium.<ref>Spearman, Gretta. (1996). ''There Was No Jesus: The Teacher of the New Testament was Apollonius of Tyana: Also the Truth about Ancient History and Jewish History: Extracted from the Book Antiquity Unveiled by Jonathan M. Roberts''. Health Research Books.</ref>
+*[[J. M. Robertson]] (1856–1933) - Scottish journalist, [[politician]] and writer.<ref name="Hawton 1971">Hawton, Hector. (1971). ''Controversy: The Humanist/Christian Encounter''. Pemberton Books. p. 173. ISBN 978-0301710211</ref>
+*[[Rudolf Steck]] (1842–1924) – Swiss reformed theologian.<ref>O'Neill, J. C. (1991). ''Bible's Authority: A Portrait Gallery of Thinkers from Lessing to Bultmann''. Clark. p. 164</ref>
+*[[Nikolai Rumyantsev (historian)|Nikolai Rumyantsev]] (1892–1956) – Russian historian.
+*[[L. Gordon Rylands]] – British [[criminologist]] and writer.<ref name="McCabe 1950"/>
+==S==
+[[File:William Benjamin Smith.png|thumb|right|120px|[[William Benjamin Smith]]]]
+*[[Acharya S]] (1961–2015) – American writer.<ref>[[Maurice Casey|Casey, Maurice]]. (2014). ''Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?'' [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]]. pp. 21-22. {{ISBN|978-0-56759-224-8}}</ref>
+*[[Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb]] (1841–1895) – American [[genealogist]] and writer.<ref>Anonymous. (1890). ''Aryan Sun-Myths the Origin of Religions''. ''[[The Open Court (journal)|The Open Court]]'' 4: 2555.</ref>
+*[[William Benjamin Smith]] (1850–1934) – professor of [[mathematics]].<ref name= "Voorst 2000"/>
+==T==
+[[File:Robert Taylor 1828.png|thumb|right|120px|[[Robert Taylor (Radical)|Robert Taylor]]]]
+*[[Robert Taylor (Radical)|Robert Taylor]] (1784–1844) – [[Freethought|Freethinker]] and [[Historical radicalism|radical]].<ref>Jongeneel, Jan A. B. (2009). ''Jesus Christ in World History: His Presence and Representation in Cyclical and Linear Settings''. Peter Lang. p. 210. ISBN 978-3-631-59688-3</ref>
+*[[Thomas L. Thompson]] (born 1939) – Danish Biblical scholar and theologian.<ref>Thompson, Thomas L; Verenna, Thomas S. (2014). ''Is This Not the Carpenter?: The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus''. Routledge. ISBN 978-1844657292</ref>
+*[[Farrell Till]] (1933–2012) – American [[skeptic]].<ref>Till, Farrell. (1995). ''The Historicity of Jesus''. Skeptical Review: Issue 4.</ref>
+==V==
+*[[Charles Virolleaud]] (1879–1968) – French archaeologist.<ref>[[Shirley Jackson Case|Case, Shirley Jackson]]. (1912). ''The Historicity of Jesus: A Criticism of the Contention that Jesus Never Lived, a Statement of the Evidence for His Existence, an Estimate of His Relation to Christianity''. University of Chicago Press. p. 39</ref>
+*[[Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney]] (1757–1820) – French historian and philosopher.<ref name= "Voorst 2000"/>
+==W==
+*[[Barbara G. Walker]] (born 1930) – American [[Feminism|feminist]] writer.<ref>Walker, Barbara G. (1983). ''Jesus Christ''. In ''The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets''. Harper & Row. 464-465. ISBN 0-06-250926-8</ref>
+*[[George Albert Wells]] (1926–2017) – English Professor of German and writer.<ref>[[Maurice Casey|Casey, Maurice]]. (2014). ''Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?'' [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]]. p. 25. {{ISBN|978-0-56759-224-8}}</ref>
+*[[Joseph Wheless]] (1868–1950) – American lawyer.<ref>Wheless, Joseph. (1930). ''Forgery In Christianity''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.</ref>
+*[[Thomas Whittaker (metaphysician)|Thomas Whittaker]] (1856–1935) – English [[metaphysician]] and critic.<ref name="Hawton 1971"/>
+*[[Robert Wipper]] (1859–1954) – Russian historian.<ref name="Андреев 2015"/>
+==Z==
+*[[Frank Zindler]] (born 1939) – American atheist writer.<ref>Zindler, Frank; Price, Robert M. (2013). ''Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth: An Evaluation of Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist?'' American Atheist Press. ISBN 978-1578840199</ref>
+==References==
+{{Reflist|2}}
+[[Category:Christ myth theory]]
+[[Category:Lists of people by belief]]