Some of you asked for it, so here it is! My hot-off-the-presses analysis of this papyrus fragment: Did Jesus have a wife? So says an ancient Egyptian papyrus In the press release of this papyrus discovery, Dr. King "repeatedly cautioned that this fragment should not be taken as proof that Jesus, the historical person, was actually married." Nor should this fragment be taken as proof that Jesus was a historical person in the first place. So long as these artifacts are interpreted through the false lens of historicity, they will not make sense.

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Q: What Egyptian liberals and leftists think of their new government and the Obama admin

Read the signs at this protest by Egyptian secularists against the Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian government. Click to enlarge.

Q: A brief explanation of how the Jesus myth was created

Here's a brief explanation of the subject of mythicism as it applies to Jesus and others. It is well known that, upon contact with the Greek culture as it spread east, into Persia, etc., during the first centuries surrounding the common era, many cultures began applying attributes of Greek gods and goddesses to their local deities. These cultures also increasingly depicted their deities as anthropomorphized, represented in art as human beings, as had been done by the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians in particular. In this way, their gods - mythical beings - while acquiring greater and more supernatural attributes also became further personalized, to the point where they were depicted as men and women having adventures on Earth. The same process occurred with the Jewish god Yahweh, who acquired attributes from the Greek gods: For example, the Jerusalem temple was shared by Yahweh and Zeus during the reign of Antiochus IV Epiphanes (c. 215-c. 154 BCE). As this pantheon of anthropomorphized gods increased with the expansion of the Roman Empire, which reached from Great Britain to the Near East and included an enormous amount of deities, the Jewish priesthood (and others) did the same thing that everyone else was doing: It anthropomorphized its god, turning the long-awaited messiah of the Old Testament into "God's son," just as Zeus had a supernatural son, Hercules. This fictional Jewish godman then served as a "historical" competitor with these other gods, acquiring their various attributions, in order to reign supreme. Hopefully, that explanation clarifies the process by which the mythical composite figure of "Jesus Christ" in the New Testament came to be. The mythical, spiritual and allegorical was made into the "historical," not the other way around.

Q: Christ in Egypt discussion on Booktalk.org

I'm delighted to announce that my book Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection has been chosen for discussion at the popular site BookTalk.org. You can find the various discussion threads here: http://www.booktalk.org/christ-in-egypt-the-horus-jesus-connection-by-d-m-murdock-f180.html All who wish to join are welcome to do so - BookTalk.org is well moderated and very civil. It's a great forum for this kind of discussion. I am in there as well and will continue to be available to answer questions and make comments over the next several weeks. For example, I'll be telling some of the "secrets" of how I wrote the book, such as the posts I've already made here: http://www.booktalk.org/post93800.html#p93800 http://www.booktalk.org/post93843.html#p93843 Come join us! See also the list of posts here: The Virgin Mother as Moon Goddess and other topics

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