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The year before his book<\/a> on the subject was published, Shirley Jackson Case wrote an article on the question of the historicity of Jesus. I suspect that few modern mythicists have read either. But the article is now available for free online, courtesy of JSTOR<\/a>. Take a look at it, see how many mythicists there were\u00a0a century ago, and then let me know if you think that recent claims of a mythicist \u201cresurgence\u201d<\/a> are justified in our time, as opposed to in 1911, when the\u00a0ideas\u00a0were not new but had seen a growth in the attention they were getting from scholars.<\/p>\n

S. J. Case\u2019s book on the topic is also online, thanks to the Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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