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The Problem With the Mythicists in the Jewish World
Maccabees faced two centuries before Jesus was the Hellenization of the Jewish homeland. If Jesus had wanted to take his disciples to see a play by Euripides on stage they could have just walked down the road from their base in Galilee, he says. Early Christianity wasn't a religion either in the modern sense or in the ancient sense it didn't have church buildings and there were no priestly caste.