page_title: John Remsburg
hierarchical_section_title: John Remsburg
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of author John E. Remsburg (1848-1919)
context_page_description: John Eleazer Remsburg was an ardent religious skeptic in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  In his book 1909 book The Christ, Remsburg lists forty-two ancient writers who did not mention Jesus or whose mentions are suspect, and this list has appeared in many subsequent books that question the historicity of Jesus.
  Remsburg himself wrote that the man Jesus may have existed, but that the Christ of the gospels is mythical.
context_section_description: John Eleazer Remsburg (variously Remsberg; January 7, 1848 – September 24, 1919) was an ardent religious skeptic in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 
  In his book 1909 book The Christ, Remsburg lists forty-two ancient writers who did not mention Jesus or whose mentions are suspect, and this list has appeared in many subsequent books that question the historicity of Jesus.
  Remsburg himself wrote that the man Jesus may have existed, but that the Christ of the gospels is mythical.
caption: John Eleazer Remsburg
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