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The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified ...
Richard Cevantis Carrier (born December 1, 1969) is an American ancient historian. [2] He is a long-time contributor to skeptical websites, including The Secular Web and Freethought Blogs.
1875: The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors ; I desire to impress upon the minds of my clerical brethren the important fact, that the gospel histories of Christ were written by men who had formerly been Jews (see Acts xxi. 20), and probably possessing the strong proclivity to imitate and borrow which their bible shows was characteristic of that nation ; and being written many years after ...
The validity of the claims in the book have been greatly criticized by Christ myth proponents including Richard Carrier, and are largely dismissed by biblical scholars. [ 306 ] Starting in the 1870s, English poet and author Gerald Massey became interested in Egyptology and reportedly taught himself Egyptian hieroglyphics at the British Museum ...
Richard Carlile (1790–1843) – English journalist, radical and secularist. [11] Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) – English socialist poet, philosopher and anthologist. [12] Richard Carrier (born 1969) – American historian, author, and atheist activist. [13] Paul-Louis Couchoud (1879–1959) – French philosopher. [14]
The Lismore Crucifixion Plaque is an early medieval Irish brass sculpture showing the Christ crucified in a long robe, with two biblical figures (Stephaton and Longinus) in the quadrants below his outstretched arms, and two angels in the quadrants above them.
Richard Carrier is an atheist activist and scholarly writer on the Christ Myth Theory, who holds a PhD in ancient history from Columbia University. Alan Dundes was an anthropologist and folklorist. Until his death shortly after being interviewed for the documentary, he was Professor of Folklore and Anthropology at the University of California ...
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang, perhaps for several days, until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation