Charles Virolleaud

Virolleaud, c. 1919

Jean Charles Gabriel Virolleaud (2 July 1879 – 17 December 1968)[1] was a French archaeologist, one of the excavators of Ugarit.

Virolleaud was the author of La légende du Christ (1908) and was an advocate of the Christ myth theory.[2][3] He also wrote the books La Civilisation phénicienne (1933) and La Mythologie phénicienne (1938).[4]

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  2. ^ Case, Shirley Jackson. (1912). The Historicity of Jesus: A Criticism of the Contention that Jesus Never Lived, a Statement of the Evidence for His Existence, an Estimate of His Relation to Christianity. University of Chicago Press. p. 39
  3. ^ Weaver, Walter P. (1999). The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900–1950. Trinity Press International. p. 69. ISBN 1-56338-280-6
  4. ^ "Charles Virolleaud", in Je m'appelle Byblos, Jean-Pierre ThiolletJ, H & D, 2005, p. 257.