The Atheist's Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed Minois Georges
The Atheist's Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed Minois Georges A comprehensive biography of the Treatise of the Three Impostors, a controversial nonexistent medieval book.Like a lot…
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The Atheist's Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed Minois Georges
A comprehensive biography of the Treatise of the Three Impostors, a controversial nonexistent medieval book.Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Of course, Frederick denied the charge, and over the following centuries the story played out across Europe, with libertines, freethinkers, and other "strong minds" seeking a copy of the scandalous text. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book-De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of the Three Impostors-in which Frederick denounced Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad as impostors.
The fascination persisted until finally, in the eighteenth century, someone brought the purported work into actual existence-in not one but two versions,