Written in 1913, this is a rebuttal of the claim that Jesus never existed, as argued by J. M. Robertson, Arthur Drews and W. B. Smith. Conybeare, an Oxford scholar of early Christian texts and no friend of traditional orthodoxy, takes their arguments one at a time: pagan mystery plays, the argument from silence, and the way they handle evidence such as the text of Acts.
An early round in a debate still going today, conducted by a critic who wanted historical method applied fairly in both directions. Download the free EPUB.