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George Reber
Best known for challenging conventional Christian history while also building a serious career in paleobotany, this early 20th-century writer moved easily between science and religious controversy. His books have the feel of a restless, independent mind following big questions wherever they led.
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The Christ of Paul; Or, The Enigmas of Christianity
by George Reber
About the author
George Reber Wieland (1865–1953), who also published as George Reber, was an American paleontologist and author. Library and archival records identify him as George Reber Wieland, born in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, and educated at Pennsylvania State College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Göttingen, and Yale, where he earned his Ph.D.
In science, he is remembered for important work on fossil cycads and other paleobotanical subjects. At the same time, he wrote religiously skeptical books such as The Christ of Paul and Therapeutae, works that questioned traditional assumptions about early Christianity and show a very different side of his interests.
That mix of scientific training and argumentative, wide-ranging curiosity gives his writing a distinct personality. Whether he was studying ancient plant life or reexamining church history, he seems to have been drawn to subjects where accepted stories could be tested against evidence.