Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

246 Pages·2010·1.42 MB·English

by  David Fitzgerald

Ten Christian Myths
That Show
Jesus Never Existed
At All

by
David Fitzgerald

2010
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Praise for Nailed

“Fitzgerald’s is possibly the best ‘capsule
summary’ of the mythicist case I’ve ever en-
countered …with an interesting and accessible
approach.”
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Earl Doherty, author of The Jesus Puzzle

“Fitzgerald summarizes a great number of key
arguments concisely and with new power and
original spin. I really learned something from
him. Recalls classical skeptics and biblical crit-
ics. A surprising amount of new material.”
—Rob(cid:2)e(cid:3)r(cid:4)t M. Price, author of Deconstructing (cid:1)
Jesus The Incredibl(cid:1)e Shrinking Son of Man
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brightest new star in the firmament of scholars
who deny historical reality to “Jesus of Naz-
areth.” His brilliance would have been suffi-
ciently established had he done nothing more
than illustrate and explain traditional argu-
ments with a clarity and transparency never
achieved by us old-timers. But he has done
more. He has developed new arguments and
insights as well that will help any honest
seeker after truth understand how a fictional
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cter — perhaps the hero of a mystery
play or liturgy — could come to acquire a bi-
ography. Thanks to Fitzgerald, we can see
more clearly now how Jesus got a life.”
—Frank R. Zindler, editor of American
Atheist Press and author of The Jesus the Jews
Never Knew: Sepher Toldoth Yeshu and the (cid:4)
quest for the Historical Jesus in Jewish Sources

“Say what you will about the overall conclu-
sion that Jesus never existed, but you can't
deny that when it comes to the ten modern
myths about Jesus dissected here, Fitzgerald
has hit the nail on the head. All ten points are
succinct and correct. A nice, readable intro-
duction to the top ten problems typically
swept under t(cid:0)h(cid:1)e(cid:0) (cid:2)r(cid:3)u(cid:4)(cid:5)g(cid:4) (cid:5)(cid:6)b(cid:7)y(cid:8) (cid:7)a(cid:4)n(cid:9)y(cid:10)o(cid:11)n(cid:1)e(cid:12) (cid:4)(cid:13)in(cid:14)s(cid:12)i(cid:4)s(cid:1)t(cid:2)in(cid:15)g(cid:6) (cid:4)(cid:6)it's
crazy even to x-
isted.”

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—Richard C. Carrier, Ph.D., author of
Impossible Faith: Why(cid:2) (cid:13)C(cid:16)h(cid:4)r(cid:12)(cid:1)is(cid:6)ti(cid:4)a(cid:17)(cid:14)n(cid:3)it(cid:12)(cid:1)y (cid:0)D(cid:14)i(cid:9)dn(cid:10)(cid:13)’t(cid:11) N(cid:4) eed
a Miracle to Succeed
book On the Historicity of Jesus Christ
(www.richardcarrier.info)

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Parts of this book previously ap-
peared in the online essay “Ten Beau-
tiful Lies about Jesus,” which took
Honorable Mention for the 2010
Mythicist Prize offered by the Mythi-
cists' Forum, a consortium of secular
New Testament scholars. The infor-
mation in that essay has been up-
dated and corrected where necessary
for this book.
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Nailed:
Ten Christian myths that show
Jesus never existed at all
Copyright © 2010 by David Fitzgerald
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For everyone who ever thought to themselves:

“I wonder what Jesus was really like?
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