Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth
Describe symbolism in Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth by Burton L. Mack
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According to Mack, Jesus Christ was a symbol.
"A Jewish penchant for personified abstractions and divine agency merged with a Greek predilection for conceptual abstractions and cosmic order. The Christ had become an overwhelming, all-encompassing symbol of the agency of a Jewish God in a Greek world."
Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth