CHAPTER

1. How Man Made God
2. Who Were The Jews?
3. The Kingdom of The Son of Man
4. The Jews In The Roman Empire

5. The Legend Of Jesus Christ
   1. Traditional Christianity
   2. The New Testament
   3. The Mystery Religions
   4. The Suffering Messiah
   5. The Myth Theory
   6. The Historical Nucleus
   7. Jewish Evidence
   8. Pagan Evidence
   9. Conclusion
6. Paul
   1. Prelude to Paul
   2. Paul -- The Documents
   3. Paul of Tarsus -- Acts v. Galatians
   4. Earlier Epistles
   5. I Corinthians
   6. 2 Corinthians
   7. Romans
   8. End of Paul's Mission
   9. Later Epistles
   10. Nero's Persecution
   11. Death of Peter and Paul
   12. The Social Basis of Pauline Christianity
7. The Break With Judaism
   1. The Jewish Revolt, 66-73
   2. Christians and the Revolt
   3. The Flavian Dynasty
   4. The Primitive Gospel
   5. Primitive Church Organization
   6. The Roman Gospel
   7. Domitian and the Jews
   8. The Apocalypse
   9. The Epistle to the Hebrews
   10. End of the Flavian Dynasty
   11. The Syrian Gospel
   12. Luke
   13. Trajan and the Christians
   14. The Ephesian Gospel and Epistles
   15. Christianity under Hadrian
   16. The Last Jewish Revolt, 132-135
8. The Birth of the Catholic Church
   1. The Antonine Age
   2. Marcion
   3. Justin
   4. Hermas
   5. The Episcopate
   6. Canon of the New Testament
   7. Deepening Crisis
   8. Celsus
   9. Irenaeus
   10. Close of the Second Century
   11. Conclusion

I am indebted to V. Gordon Childe for valuable criticism of the early chapters of this book, and to Maurice Cornforth, Christopher Hill and Jack Lindsay for valuable suggestions in regard to the whole book. While their advice has been useful in many places, I alone am responsible for the work as it now stands.

April, 1953.

A. R.