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The Christ myth theory (also called the Jesus myth theory, Jesus Myth, and Christ Myth) is the idea that the person named Jesus in the Bible's Gospels is a myth. However, there is a big difference between what the words myth, historical, and fiction mean. Because of this, there are many different opinions about how the Jesus in the Gospels is a myth.

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    A 3rd century fragment of Paul's letter to the Romans

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    French historian Constantin-François Volney, one of the earliest myth theorists

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    German Prof. David Strauss.

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    German Prof. Arthur Drews.

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    American New Testament scholar Robert M. Price.

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    American historian Richard Carrier.

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    British academic John M. Allegro

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    Canadian author Tom Harpur (photo by Hugh Wesley)

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