Alvar Ellegård (1919-2008), scholar

Alvar Ellegård (1919-2008) was a Swedish author.

Biography

Alvar Ellegård was a proponent of a variant of the Jesus Myth Theory, which derived the figure of Jesus from the Essene Teacher of Righteousness.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Myten om Jesus (1992 Ellegård), non-fiction

• Jesus: One Hundred Years before Christ (1999 Ellegård), non-fiction

External links

• Wikipedia