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Hardcover, black cloth boldly lettered in gold, in non priced, non clipped dust-jacket. 500 pages. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. First edition, first printing with full number line. A continuation of the debate around the question is Christianity as the driving catalyst for the rise and vehemence of European antisemitism, with the author asserting that history has answered the question in the affirmative. Divided into three main sections Nicholls looks first at the historical Jesus and proclaims him a good Jew (i.e. a preacher whose message and tone in no way denigrated the Jewish people or religion); in the second he examines Paul’s influence in creating a mythology inimical to the religion of Judaism; and finally with the dawn of the nineteenth century of argues for the secularization of the myth and its promulgation through Europe with the rise of Napoleon. A scrupulously researched work, by a former Anglican minister, this work is an important contribution to the history of religion and its effects on the modern world. An as new copy but for small round blind-stamp of former owner on lower half-title page. Published at $142.00 this is a clean, crisp, unmarked and unread copy in an as new dust-jacket. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.