I am currently reading Paul W. Kahn’s recent book Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil (Princeton University Press, 2007). Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. He regards the Bible as myth and appears to be especially influenced by Sigmund Freud and, among more recent thinkers, Elaine Pagels in his reading of the biblical texts.

It is interesting, then, to see how this scholar perceives the early Christians’ view of Jesus Christ. He writes: Continue Reading »