[1] Bergh van Eysinga was an advocate of the Christ myth theory.

After working as a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, he was appointed a professor in New Testament exegesis at the University of Amsterdam in 1936.

[1] Bergh van Eysinga disputed the authorship of the Pauline epistles.

Refuting the authenticity of the epistle of Clement and of Ignatius of Antioch, he concluded that there was no evidence for the existence of the Paulines before Marcion.

[2] Unlike his teacher Van Manen who accepted the historicity of Jesus, Van den Bergh found no evidence for an actual crucifixion of a person claiming to be the Messiah as the origin of Christianity.