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"The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David" By Thomas L. Thompson: The frequent references to "the kingdom of God" in the gospels and sayings attributed to Jesus in the controversial gospel of Thomas all point to an earlier tradition: like king David before him,...

Hos 6 is extremely interesting with the first person plural : "On the third day we will rise and live before him". Because this could support the notion that the resurrection of Jesus was a collective event, the birth of the Church, the new people of God, or the 'new Israel'. And the pass...

"Notice that in the passage Jesus deliberately waits two days before he starts out to visit Lazarus, thereby allowing a total of four days to pass before he comes to the tomb, a point that Martha specifically mentions. This is different, of course, from the timing of Jesus' resurrection, which...

Hosea 6:1: Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence. I've mentioned before that this verse reminds me of the ...

The Pharaoh also went through a transfiguration and baptism during the coronation ceremony. "A Companion to Ancient Egypt" edited by Alan B. Lloyd: During this central ceremony of Kingship, a more or less ordinary mortal, whom many of the elite had known on a personal level, was transfigur...

This resurrection was the culmination of a process of deification that had begun with Amenhoteps III's coronation. This reminds me of the transfiguration and baptism of Jesus in the gospels. One or both of these events can be compared to the coronation ceremony of the king when he becomes divine or...

In the ANE the king was often considered the son of god or the representative of god. In the following I'm going to use the Egyptian king/pharaoh as an example since I know more about Egyptian kings than other ANE kings. In the gospels Jesus is portrayed as being the new king/messiah. The Jewish mes...

What I hypothesise more generally is that the Christians of the NT thought their new race was more of a new species of humans. Or rather, that original immortal species described in Gen 1:26-26 ruling creation, before the Fall where the humans acquired their fleshly mortality and as such became a f...

Shouldn't we make a distinction between the doctrines about the resurrection body in A) the canonical Gospels, B) in Acts, and C) the Pauline letters (maybe even further distinguish between letters to churches and letters to individuals)? Some scholars like James Tabor think that Paul believed the ...

I would say Christianity was influenced by both. Some people were mixing Platonism and Stoicism before the Christian era. This website gives a good overview of Platonism and some of it's overlaps with Stoicism.
https://www.iep.utm.edu/midplato/