The atheist's Bible
Subtitle: the most dangerous book that never existed
By: Georges Minois ; translated by Lys Ann Weiss
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780226530291; 9780226530307
Subjects: Rationalism; De tribus impostoribus; History
Work titles: Traité des trois imposteurs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origin of a mythical theme: the prehistory of the three impostors (up to the thirteenth century); title: The hunt for the author of a mythical treatise (fourteenth to sixteenth century); title: The European elites and religious imposture (seventeenth century); title: Debates on the origin of religions (second half of the seventeenth century); title: From the De tribus to the Trois imposteurs: discovery or invention of the Treatise (1680-1721); title: The treatise of the Three impostors: the contents of a blasphemy.