The Mythmaker

Author: Hyam MacCoby
Edition: Seventh Printing.
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0760707871

The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity

Maccoby's account of Paul is nothing short of a thorough shredding. Download The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. If Paul was a trained Pharisee, why don't his arguments have the sound logical structure he should have learned in Pharisee School? Isn't there something a little funny about the way Paul whipped out Roman citizenship papers whenever he got into trouble? And just what _was_ the nature of the famous disagreement between Peter and Paul? Maccoby's Paul was, in short, a cunning rogue who pieced together a new religion from bits of this and that, and then dressed the whole thing up with a sprinkling of out-of-context Torah quotations. Does he denigrate Paul too far? Perhaps. Does he fail to account adequately for the rise of Christianity? Perhaps. But can we ever read the letters Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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