In "Critical History of the Text of the New Testament" (1689), 17th century Oratorian Richard Simon (1638-1712), father of modern biblical criticism, surveys the genuineness, authority, and reliabilit
Ecce homo!, evidently the first published "Life of Jesus", appeared anonymously in 1770. The text, by the atheist Baron d'Holbach, presents events contained in the gospels from a rationalist, free-thi
