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Hyam Maccoby: The Librarian Who Put Paul on Trial

Hyam Maccoby (1924–2004) worked as a British Jewish scholar, dramatist, and polemicist who built his career around a provocative reinterpretation of early Christianity. He argued that Jesus stood firmly within first-century Judaism, while Paul invented Christianity as a separate religion. … Continue reading

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Decoding Author Hyam Maccoby

Per Alliance Theory: Hyam Maccoby was an outsider intellectual who built authority by refusing every available alliance and then surviving anyway. His core move was inversion. He rejected the Christian scholarly consensus on Jesus and Paul not by becoming apologetic … Continue reading

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