But what does this Allen guy have to say about Paul?Table of Contents
..Acknowledgements and Disclaimers
..Figures and Tables
..Abbreviations
..CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
.....1.1 Raisons d’Ȇtre
.....1.2 The Span of Credulity
.....1.3 The Lack of Critical Discernment
.....1.4 The Edification of Naïveté
.....1.5 The Exploitation of Ignorance
.....1.6 The Scope of This Book
..CHAPTER TWO: The Christian Creed
.....2.1 Disclaimer
.....2.2 The Nature of the Christian Deity
.....2.3 The Revealed Knowledge of the Supreme Deity
.....2.4 The Christian Confession of Faith
..CHAPTER THREE: Towards Rationality
.....3.1 The Problem of Bias
.....3.2 Deconstructing the Christian Deity
.....3.3 Scientific Inquiry
.....3.4 Irrationality
.....3.5 Towards Rationality
..CHAPTER FOUR: Christian Dogma in its Proper Context
.....4.1 Passé Christianity
.....4.2 Zoroastrianism (c.600 BCE – present)
.....4.3 Zurvanism (c. 400 BCE – c.950 CE)
.....4.4 Egyptian Belief Systems (c.3200 BCE – c.600 CE)
.....4.5 Greek Religious Belief Systems (c.600 BCE – c.100 CE)
.....4.6 Influential Ancient Greek Philosophies
.....4.7 Roman Religious Practices (c. 50 BCE – c. 200 CE)
.....4.8 Influences on Nascent Christianity (c.70 – c.400 CE)
.....4.9 The Impact of Gnosticism
..CHAPTER FIVE: The Evolution of Judaism
.....5.1 Introduction
.....5.2 In the Beginning
.....5.3 Judaism Comes of Age
.....5.4 The Compilation of the Hebrew Bible
.....5.5 The Theological Rationalisation of Oppression
.....5.6 Literalist Judaism
.....5.7 The Advent of Apocalypticism
.....5.8 The Rabbinical Period and the Talmud
..CHAPTER SIX: The Evolution of Christian Dogma
.....6.1 Jewish Foundations
.....6.2 Nascent Christianity
.....6.3 Nascent Christianity as a Foreign Cult
.....6.4 The Hegemony of Catholic Christian Orthodoxy
.....6.5 The Suppression of Non-Christian Faiths
..CHAPTER SEVEN: Pious Fraud and Self-Deception
.....7.1 Supposed Historical Sources
.....7.2 Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (c.62 – c.113 CE)
.....7.3 Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c.69 – after 122 CE)
.....7.4 Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c.56 – 117 CE)
.....7.5 Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis (c.95 – 120 CE)
.....7.6 Mara bar Serapion (fl. first to third centuries CE)
.....7.7 Thallos aka. Thallus (unknown dates)
.....7.8 Phlegon of Tralles (fl. c.80 CE)
.....7.9 Lucian of Samosata (c.125 – after 180 CE)
.....7.10 Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (c.160 – 225 CE)
.....7.11 Josephus Titus Flavius (37 – c.100 CE)
.....7.12 The Talmud Bavli and Tosefta (c.200 – 500 CE)
..CHAPTER EIGHT: Dissecting the New Testament
.....8.1 The Sole Source of Information
.....8.2 How Factual is the New Testament?
.....8.3 Confused Tales
.....8.4 Discrepancies in the New Testament
.....8.5 New Testament Rhetoric
.....8.6 The Nazareth Issue
.....8.7 NT Miracles from a Twenty-First Century Perspective
.....8.8 The Importance of Mythological and Theological Symbolism
.....8.9 An Attempt to Save Jesus
..CHAPTER NINE: Conclusions
.....9.1 Is Ratiocination Even Possible?
.....9.2 Two Possible Scenarios
.....9.3 Christianity as a Form of Syncretism
.....9.4 Quo Vadis?
..Bibliography
..About the Author
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