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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: first in the myth field--though he allows that Dupuis in
L'origine de tous les cultes (1795) had given the clue to the
whole idea. He then mentions Bruno Bauer (1877) as
contending that Jesus was a pure invention of Mark's,
and John M. Robertson as having in his Christianity and
Mythology (1900) given the first thoroughly reasoned exposition
of the legendary theory; also Emilio Bossi in Italy, who
wrote Jesu Christo non e mai esistito, and similar authors
in Holland, Poland, and other countries, including W. Benjamin
Smith, the American author of The Pre-christian
Jesus (1906), and P. Jensen in Das Gilgamesch Epos in den
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