1835 · Boston
by Strauss, Frederick
Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1835. Revised and abridged by Baron Stow, 8vo, pp. xii, 298; original publisher's cloth, gilt title on spine; text cocked, corners bumped, prelims lightly foxed, the rest clean; ex-Amherst Library Association, with a regulations label on front free endpaper, gift inscription, and a small stamp on title page; good and sound. Frederick Strauss was a theologian best known for his assertion that while there may have been a historical Jesus the miracles in the Bible were myths developed by the early church to support their belief that he was the Jewish messiah. Rosenbach, American Jewish Bibliography 396.
(Inventory #: 54236)