This is the true first edition published in soft cover by Starmont House in 1993 - one of the last books they published. Later in 1993 Starmont House was sold to Borgo Press. Borgo rebound most into hard cover placing stickers containing their own publishing information over Starmont's. The soft cover editions are considered the true firsts.
Robert McNair Price is an American theologian and writer. He teaches philosophy and religion at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary, is professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on theology and the historicity of Jesus, asserting the Christ myth theory.
A former Baptist minister, he was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by H.P. Lovecraft.