Ecce Homo! Or, a Critical Enquiry into the History of Jesus Christ

An eighteenth century-Christopher Hitchens, Baron d’Holbach begins this polemical tome with the rebuke, “Although the writings of the New Testament are in the hands of everyone, nothing is more uncommon than to find the professors of Christianity acquainted with the history of the founder of their religion; and even among those who have perused that history, it is still more rare to find any who have ventured seriously to examine it.” Taking his title from Pilate’s words in the Latin text of John 19:5, “behold the man,” Baron d’Holbach presents a critical study of the historical Jesus according to d’Holbach’s atheistic worldview.