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Title: Simply a Rehash of Nineteenth Century speculation
Review: This book rehashes the ideas of the nineteenth century amateur Egyptologist Gerald Massey (1828-1907), and ignores the entire last century of discoveries in Egyptology. The author, following Massey, puts forward all sorts of hypothetical derivations of words and events in the Gospels.But he tells us nothing of how the Gospels were composed, who wrote them, or why, or what political agenda and what literary sources lay behind their creation. Any readers interested in the empirical answers to those questions should rather read Joseph Atwill's new book Caesar's Messiah.
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