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"A brilliant case. Your work is first rate." -- Gore Vidal "I agree with you one hundred percent that the biblical Jesus is a total fabrication. I had always thought so as a hunch after some casual investigation, but you make the case beyond possible doubt." -- Ralph Anspach, Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, San Francisco State University "Yours is the first statement, since Albert Schweitzer's at the beginning of the 20th Century, that Christianity will have to surrender the historicity of Jesus." -- Professor G.A. Wells, Birbeck College, University of London (Wells is one of the foremost biblical scholars in the world and the author of such classic works on Jesus as Did Jesus Exist?) "You may not call yourself a scholar, but you certainly have done a great deal of honest scholarly research...It often takes so-called 'amateurs' such as yourself to get us so-called 'scholars' to see that the Emperor has no clothes!...You have many excellent scholars who support you in your view that no Talmudic reference to Jesus is trustworthy...Why would a Jew admit that Jesus even lived?...I believe that you are to be commended for stressing the importance of the issue of whether Jesus ever lived, inasmuch as the existence of Jesus is the sine qua non for Christianity..." -- Louis H. Feldman, Professor of Classics, Yeshiva University, New York (Feldman is renowned as one of the foremost translators of the histories attributed to the First-Century historian Flavius Josephus, into whose works the early Catholics dumped brief forgeries referring to Jesus, James, and John the baptizer) "I'm convinced that your book will contribute to a better understanding of what the early Christian religionists did in order to concoct one of the most devious deceptions in the history of civilization. Your book will succeed in convincing many Christian theologians to reconsider their outdated, outmoded, and dubious claims of a Jesus who is really nothing more than a fraudulent character who never existed in reality. I have a strong feeling that once it The Case Against 'Jesus' is published, it will cause quite a stir, resentment, and outrage from the religious community. Not to worry. Criticism and outrage from the religious community can only further, contribute, and generate publicity for your book. I can't wait to view the fireworks that are sure to take place once news of your book enters the public domain. I personally can't see how any religious apologist, no matter how clever or deceptive, can find any opposing rational argument against the numerous facts, history, etc., which you so intelligently expose in regard to the 'never was, never existed Jesus' of the gospels." -- Leland W. Ruble, Editor-Publisher, Perceptive Freethought "Our acquisitions committee has found your work most engaging. Its lively and provocative approach should entice readers to rethink traditional positions regarding the status of Jesus and the origins of Christianity. It is our fervent hope that you will continue your research and complete your manuscript on this fascinating topic." -- Steven L. Mitchell, Editor-in-Chief, Prometheus Books