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• He Walked Among Us: Evidence for the Historical Jesus (Nashville: T. Nelson Publishers, c1993), by Josh McDowell and Bill Wilson (PDF via josh.org)
• Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2025), by T. C. Schmidt (HTML and PDF with commentary at Oxford Academic)
• Did Jesus Christ Really Live?, by Marshall J. Gauvin (HTML at infidels.org)
• The Historic and the Inward Christ: A Study in Quaker Thought (London: Headley Bros., 1914), by Edward Grubb
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• The Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
• The Historicity of Jesus: A Criticism of the Contention that Jesus Never Lived, a Statement of the Evidence for His Existence, an Estimate of His Relation to Christianity, by Shirley Jackson Case (HTML at freewebspace.com)
• Sefer Toledot Yeshu: Sive Liber de Ortu et Origine Jesu ex Editione Wagenseiliana Transcriptus et Explicatus (in Hebrew and Latin, with short English quotation; Uppsala: C. A. Leffler, 1857), ed. by Lars Edman (multiple formats in reverse page order at Google)
• The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidence of His Existence (New York: Truth Seeker Co., ca. 1907), by John E. Remsburg (Gutenberg text)
• The Historical Jesus: A Survey of Positions (London: Watts and Co., 1916), by J. M. Robertson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Jesus Problem: A Restatement of the Myth Theory (London: Watts and Co., 1917), by J. M. Robertson (Gutenberg text)
• Pagan Christs: Studies in Comparative Hierology (2nd edition; London: Watts and Co., 1911), by J. M. Robertson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede, by Albert Schweitzer, trans. by W. Montgomery (HTML at earlychristianwritings.com)
• Gesù Cristo non è mai esistito. (Società editoriale milanese, 1905), by Emilio Bossi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The historicity of Jesus a criticism of the contention that Jesus never lived, a statement of the evidence for his existence, an estimate of his relation to Christianity (University of Chicago Press, 1912), by Shirley Jackson Case (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the historical Jesus; a critical study of its progress from Reimarus to Wrede (A. and C. Black, 1910), by Albert Schweitzer, F. Crawford Burkitt, and W. Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
• À propos d'histoire des religions. (É. Nourry, 1911), by Alfred Firmin Loisy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pagan Christs : studies in comparative hierology (London : b Watts & Co., 1911), by J. M. Robertson and Rationalist Press Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historicity of Jesus; a criticism of the contention that Jesus never lived, a statement of the evidence for his existence, an estimate of his relation to Christianity. (University of Chicago Press, 1928), by Shirley Jackson Case (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historical Jesus, a survey of positions. (Watts & co., 1916), by J. M. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• In search of Jesus Christ. ([Calcutta], 1927), by Dhirendranath Chowdhuri (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Patmakan Hisus Kʻristosě : (hetewoghutʻeamb ashkharhahambaw heghinakneru) (880-02 Marzuan : Tpagr. Nersō ew Srapean, 1914., 1914), by Arshak Tʻiwtʻiwnchean and V. H. Hagopian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Apstamb Ḥisusě (880-02 K. Polis : Tparan "Kohak"i, 1913., 1913), by Karl Kautsky and S. Hovhannēseantsʻ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The historicity of Jesus ; a criticism of the contention that Jesus never lived, a statement of the evidence for his existence, an estimate of his relation to Christianity (University of Chicago press, 1912), by Shirley Jackson Case (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Christusmythe (E. Diederichs, 1910), by Arthur Drews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gesù e il mito di Cristo : (saggio di critica metodologica) (G. Laterza, 1912), by Mario Puglisi Pico (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Christusmythe (E. Diederichs, 1910), by Arthur Drews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Jesus of history (Student Christian Movement, 1920), by T. R. Glover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesus, a myth (A. & C. Boni, 1926), by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes and Edwin Björkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The corner stone of Christianity; an introduction to the symbolic criticism of W.B. Smith (The Open Court Pub. Co., 1938), by William A. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Evangelien-mythen, mit vorwort des verfassers für die deutsche ausgabe. Berechtigte übersetzung aus dem englischen. (E. Diederichs, 1910), by J. M. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The great Galilean (Little, Brown, and company, 1929), by Robert Keable (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Christusmythe. (E. Diederichs, 1909), by Arthur Drews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The witnesses to the historicity of Jesus (The Open court publishing co., 1912), by Arthur Drews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Bedeutung der Geschichtlichkeit Jesu für den Glauben (J. C. B. Mohr, 1911), by Ernst Troeltsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The historical Man of Nazareth (J. North & co., printers, 1908), by Wilbur Franklin Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The witnesses to the historicity of Jesus (Watts, 1912), by Arthur Drews and Joseph McCabe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The historic Jesus (Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), by David Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jésus-Christ et les plus récentes théories "historiques" : discours prononcé le 15 novembre 1922, à l'occasion de la rentrée solennelle des cours universitaires (Imp. de l'Œuvre de Saint-Paul, 1922), by E. Bernard Allo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Christusfrage (Amerikanischen Traktat=Gesellschaft, 1872), by Philip Schaff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der sogenannte historische Jesus und der geschichtliche, biblische Christus (A. Deichert, 1896), by Martin Kähler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The career of the Christ-idea in history. (Adams, 1870), by Hudson Tuttle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth about Jesus : Is he a myth? (Independent religious society, 1909), by M. M. Mangasarian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vie de Jésus : ou examen critique de son histoire (Librairie de Ladrange, 1839), by David Friedrich Strauss, Emile Littré, and Emile Littré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesus: myth, man, or god; or, The popular theology and the positive religion contrasted (J. Burns, 1870), by J. M. Peebles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simon, son of man; a cognomen of undoubted historicity, obscured by translation and lost in the resplendence of a dual appellative (Sherman, French & company, 1917), by John Ira Riegel and John H. Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le mensonge chrétien (Jésus-Christ n'a pas existé) ... (A. Heulhard, 1908), by Arthur Heulhard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The History of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ : compiled from the gospels. (American Mission Press, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der sogenannte historische Jesus und der geschichtliche, biblische Christus. (George Böhme, 1896), by Martin Kähler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Hauptprobleme des Lebens Jesu : eine geschichtliche Untersuchung (Bertelsmann, 1903), by Fritz Barth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jesus von Nazareth, Mythus oder Geschichte? Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Kalthoff, Drews, Jensen. Vorträge, gehalten auf dem Theologischen Ferienkurs in Berlin am 31. März und 1. April 1910. (J.C.B. Mohr, 1910), by Johannes Weiss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jesus Christus in der Geschichte; ein Beitrag zu den Drews-und Jatho-Debatten (J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1912), by Eberhard Vischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Vernichtungskampf gegen das biblische Christusbild. (Aschendorff, 1908), by Ignaz Rohr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte der leben-Jesu-forschung. (J. C. B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1913), by Albert Schweitzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wahrheit und Dichtung im Leben Jesu (B.G. Teubner, 1919), by Paul Mehlhorn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der vorchristliche Jesus : nebst weiteren Vorstudien zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Urchristentums (A. Töpelmann, 1906), by William Benjamin Smith and Paul Wilh. Schmiedel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Geschichte der Geburt des Herrn und seiner ersten Schritte im Leben : in Bezug auf die neueste Kritik (Wiegandt und Grieben, 1873), by F. L. Steinmeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der sogenannte historische Jesus und der geschichtliche, biblische Christus (A. Deichert, 1892), by Martin Kähler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Geschichtliche existenz Christi (Volksvereins-verlag, g.m.b.h., 1910), by Franz Meffert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ersatzversuche für das biblische Christusbild. (Aschendorff, 1908), by Ignaz Rohr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Geschichtlichkeit Jesu Christi und der christliche Glaube, eine methodische Studie. (J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1913), by Martin Peisker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Jesus of history and the Jesus of tradition identified. (London : Reeves and Turner, 1880., 1880), by George Solomon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christ myth (The Open court Pub. Co., 1911), by Arthur Drews and Cecil Delisle Burns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesus the Son of God; or Primitive Christology. (Yale University Press, 1911), by Benjamin Wisner Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesus in modern criticism : a lecture (A. & C. Black, 1907), by Paul Wilh. Schmiedel and Maurice A. Canney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der geschichtliche Christus : eine Reihe von Vorträgen mit Quellenbeweis und Chronologie des Lebens Jesu (Orell, Füssli, 1866), by Theodor Keim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Evangelium : eine Nachdichtung (C. Konegen, 1910), by Rudolf Schuller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der geschichtliche Christus und die moderne philosophie. : Eine genetische darlegung der philosophischen voraussetzungen im streit um die christusmythe. (Kirchheim, 1911), by Franz Xaver Kiefl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El hombre de Galilea (Casa de Publicationes de la Inglesia Metodista Episcopal del Sur, 1901), by Atticus G. Haygood and Edna M. de Watkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the attempted application of pantheistic principles to the theory and historic criticism of the Gospel (J. and J. J. Deighton, 1840), by W. H. Mill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tradition und Mythe : ein Beitrag zur historischen Kritik der kanonischen Evangelien überhaupt, wie insbesondere zur Würdigung des mythischen Idealismus im Leben Jesu von Strauss (H. F. Hartmann, 1837), by Wilhelm Ferdinand Wilcke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der historische Christus und die Philosophie : Kritik der Grundidee des Werks das Leben Jesu von Dr. D. F. Strauss (O. Wigand, 1838), by Julius Schaller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vorlesungen über das Leben Jesu für Theologen und Nichttheologen. (Joh. Aug. Meissner, 1839), by Otto Krabbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ : compiled from the gospels. (American Mission Press, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man of Galilee (J.E. Wilson, 1889), by Atticus G. Haygood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Jesussage. (E. Reiss, 1925), by Georg Brandes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The great Galilean (Cassell, 1929), by Robert Keable (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Christ of faith and the Jesus of history (J. Clarke, 1921), by D. M. Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hat Jesus gelebt? : Vortrag gehalten zu Marburg am 1. März 1910 (N. G. Elwert, 1910), by Adolf Jülicher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vie de Jésus, ou, Examen critique de son histoire (Librairie Philosophique de Ladrange, 1856), by David Friedrich Strauss and Emile Littré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch einer Vertheidigung und Erlauterung der Geschichte Jesu und der Apostel allein aus griechischen und romischen Profanscribenten fur Freunde der heiligen Geschichte und profanen Literatur (Helwingschen, 1805), by J. A. G. Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jesus of the evangelists : his historical character vindicated; or, An examination of the internal evidence of our Lord's divine mission with reference to modern controversy (Williams and Norgate, 1868), by C. A. Row (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jagat kā muktidātā prabhe īsāmasīha kī kathā. (Baptist Mission Press, 1828), by M. T. Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der geschichtliche Christus ; drei reden mit rücksicht auf die neuesten werke und mit literarischen beigaben (Orell, Füssli und Comp., 1865), by Theodor Keim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die neuesten Angriffe auf die Geschichtlichkeit Jesu (J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1912), by Erich Klostermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The historic and the inward Christ : a study in Quaker thought (Pub. for the Woodbrooke Extension Committee by Headley Brothers, 1914), by Edward Grubb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Philosophie de l'impersonnalisme méthodique; évolution pacifique des sociétés de foi en sociétés de science. (F. Alcan, in the 1890s), by J. Strada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von Reimarus zu Wrede. (Mohr (Siebeck), 1921), by Albert Schweitzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Christ; a critical review and analysis of the evidences of His existence (The Truth seeker company, 1909), by John Eleazer Remsburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The founder of Christendom (American Unitarian Association, 1903), by Goldwin Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Syn chelovi͡echeskiĭ" (Knigoizd-vo P. P. Soĭkina, in the 19th century), by Philip Schaff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Ursprung des Christentums : eine historische Untersuchung (Dietz, 1920), by Karl Kautsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ist das "liberale" Jesusbild widerlegt? : eine Antwort an seine "positiven" und seine radikalen Gegner mit besonderer Rücksicht auf A. Drews, Die Christusmythe (J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1910), by Heinrich Weinel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kristinuskon alkuperä : historiallinen tutkimus (Amerikan Yhdist. Suom. Sos. Kustannusyhtiöt, 1918), by Karl Kautsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man of Galilee (Hunt & Eaton, 1890), by Atticus G. Haygood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Leben Jesu und die Kirche der Zukunft (C.G. Lüderitz'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Carl Habel, 1872), by Heinrich Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historic CHrist (Longmans, Green, 1905), by T. A. Lacey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Influence of Christianity. (Freethought Pub. Co., 1886), by A. Hatchard and Annie Besant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Hauptprobleme des Lebens Jesu : eine geschichtliche Untersuchung (Bertelsmann, 1899), by Fritz Barth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesus. (Gebauer-Schwetschke, 1904), by Wilhelm Bousset (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Jesus of history (Association Press, 1922), by T. R. Glover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wahrheit und Dichtung im Leben Jesu. (B.G. Teubner, 1906), by Paul Mehlhorn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Quelques traits du Jésus de l'histoire. Deux études. (Fischbacher, 1899), by J. de Visme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Jesusbild nach der Darstellung moderner Dichter und der historische Jesus (Paul Schwarzer, 1907), by Fritz Schönfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Von Reimarus zu Wrede : eine Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Forschung (J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1906), by Albert Schweitzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Irrgang des Lebens Jesu. (J.H.W. Dietz, 1884), by Albert Friedrich Benno Dulk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical Jesus and mythical Christ (Kanekawa Shoten, 1894), by Gerald Massey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mangasarian-Crapsey debate ... (Original Research Society, 1908), by Algernon Sidney Crapsey and M. M. Mangasarian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Christus und Christenthum. (F. Kirchheim, 1877), by Johann Diefenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jésus et l'ère de la science; la véritable histoire de Jésus (F. Alcan, 1896), by J. Strada and Gabriel Jules Delarue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gehört Jesus in das Evangelium? (A. Deichert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Nachf., (Georg Böhme), 1901), by Martin Kähler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De ortu et origine Jesu. (typis exscripsit C. A. Leffler, 1857), by L. Edman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Om Kristi opstandelses historiske virkelighed (Cammermeyer, 1878), by A. Chr. Bang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the resurrection of Christ told once more : with remarks upon the character of Christ and the historical claims of the four gospels (Houghton, Mifflin and Co. ;, 1890), by William Henry Furness (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moses, Jesus, Paulus : drei Varianten des babylonischen Gottmenschen Gilgamesch : eine Anklage wider die Theologen, ein Appell auch an die Laien (Neuer Frankfurter Verlag, 1909), by P. Jensen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wir Gelehrten vom Fach! : eine Streitschrift gegen Professor D. von Soden's Hat Jesus gelebt? (Neuer Frankfurter Verlag, 1910), by Friedrich Steudel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the historical Jesus, a critical study of its progress from Reimarus to Wrede. (Macmillan, 1910), by Albert Schweitzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der vorchristliche Jesus; vorstudien zur entstehungsgeschichte des urchristentums. (E. Diedrich, 1911), by William Benjamin Smith and Paul Wilh. Schmiedel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La Sainte-Famille : Barabbas et les siens dans les mythes grecs de Psyché et d'Apollonius et dans les écritures juives (Talmud, Apparition du Vaurien de l'étranger), avec l'explication de la pseudo-légende du Juif errant (Heulhard, 1914), by Arthur Heulhard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ : compiled from the gospels. (American Mission Press, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wissen wir etwas Sicheres über Jesus? Im Zusammenhang des Christusmythenstreites. (A. Deichert, 1912), by Johannes Jeremias (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hat Jesus gelebt? (Dörffling & Franke, 1920), by Johannes Leipoldt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Ursprung des Christentums : eine historische Untersuchung (J. H. W. Dietz Nachf., 1919), by Karl Kautsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die geschichtliche Person Jesu Christi nach der rationalistischen Darstellung und nach den urkundlichen Quellen : ein Vortrag (Mecklenborg & Rosenthal, 1880), by Jechiel Zebi Lichtenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apocalypse of Jesus ; being a step in the search for the historical Christ (J. & J. Bennett, 1912), by Frederick William Worsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apollonius the Nazarene : the life and teachings of the unknown world teacher of the first century (Biosophical Pub. Co., 1947), by Walter Seigmeister (page images at HathiTrust)
• ha-Yaʻar be-ʼen dov : yokhiaḥ ... ki-Yeshu ha-Notsri lo hayah ṿe-lo nivra = The zoo without an animal : conclusive evidence ... that Jesus never existed. (Moineshṭer prinṭing ḳo., 1929), by Ephraim Deinard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesus von Nazareth : historische Studie (J.L. Lotzbeck, 1876), by G. Lommel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Christusmythe (Eugen Diederichs, 1910), by Arthur Drews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Moses, Jesus, Paulus : drei Varianten des babylonischen Gottmenschen Gilgamesch : eine Anklage und ein Appell (Neuer Frankfurter Verlag, 1910), by P. Jensen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jésus de Nazareth : mythe ou histoire? (Payot, 1925), by Maurice Goguel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Jesus of history (Student Christian Movement, 1929), by T. R. Glover (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The historic Jesus : being the Elliott lectures delivered in the Western Theological Seminary, Pittsburg, Pa. (New York : Hodder and Stoughton, [1912], 1912), by David Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesus the Nazarene, myth or history? (New York : D. Appleton, 1926., 1926), by Maurice Goguel and Frederick Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yeshue fun Natseres̀. (ארױסגעגעבן דורכן האלענדישן קאמיטעט צו פארשפרײטן דאס ביכל ישוע פון נצרת, 1914), by Alexandre Westphal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zoo without an animal (Moineshtẹr printịng kọ., 1929), by Ephraim Deinard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christ a myth (Tara Printing Works, 1928), by Kahan Chandra Varma (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der geschichtliche Jesus : mit einer Einführung Grundsätzliches zur Leben-Jesus-Forschung (Meyer & Jessen, 1928), by Ditlef Nielsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Man of Galilee, by Atticus G. Haygood (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Christ Myth, by Arthur Drews, trans. by C. Delisle Burns (Gutenberg ebook)
• The quest of the historical Jesus : a critical study of its progress from Reimarus to Wrede, by Albert Schweitzer, trans. by W. Montgomery (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Truth About Jesus : Is He a Myth?: Illustrated, by M. M. Mangasarian (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Jesus of History, by T. R. Glover (Gutenberg ebook)
• An epistle of Publius Lentulus written to the senat and people of Rome concerning the true description, and portraiture of Iesus Christ, gathered out of an old manuscript booke, in the library of the college of Brasennose in Oxford. ([London : s.n., 1650?]), by Publius Lentulus (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Publius Lentulus his report to the Senate of Rome concerning Jesus Christ (London : Printed for Francis Smith ..., [1680]), by Publius Lentulus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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