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Title: Jesus Mysteries
Review: The authors took Sir James Frazer's "Golden Bough" to ridiculous extremes. They set a new record by revealing their bias not in the first page, but on the dedication page! This half-baked bit of scholarship somehow manages to combine Osiris and the Greek god of ecstasy Dionysius into one being, despite the inconvenient fact that they are two separatre and distinct deities from different cultures, and there is no reason to do it whatsoever. The work then plods through a buffet of Near Eastern religions and cults, grabbing on to anything which even remotely resembles gospel accounts and considers it as absolute evidence that all of Christianity is a fraud. Pagan philosophers are called 'sages' while early Christian wirters, saying much the same thing, are referred to as 'mouthpieces'. While the authors concentrate on surface details, the major differences between minor fertillity deities and Jesus are completely overlooked.
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