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This Easter, MythVision's Derek Lambert and Neal Sendlak (Gnostic Informant) are going LIVE to talk about what your pastor will never mention on Easter Sunday.
Long before the Gospels were written, the ancient Mediterranean world already had a well-established storytelling pattern for how divine and heroic figures die, disappear, and return. The missing body. The grieving women at the burial site. The empty tomb or vanished corpse. The post-mortem appearances. The ascension to the gods. This wasn't invented by the authors of the New Testament. It was a trope, and it was everywhere.
Dr. Richard C. Miller's groundbreaking research has shown that the Gospel resurrection and ascension narratives map directly onto the Greco-Roman "translation fable," a widespread literary convention used for figures like Romulus, Heracles, Aristeas, Empedocles, and others. The pattern is consistent: the great figure dies or disappears, the body goes missing, witnesses report seeing them alive afterward, and they are declared to have been taken up among the gods. Sound familiar?
But it goes even deeper. Across the ancient Near East, dying and rising gods were a recurring feature of religious life for centuries before Jesus. Osiris was reassembled and raised in Egypt. Inanna descended to the land of the dead and returned in ancient Sumer. Baal was swallowed by Death and restored to his throne at Ugarit. Melqart's annual resurrection was publicly celebrated in Tyre, just miles from Galilee. Adonis, Attis, Dumuzi. The tradition runs deep.
The earliest Christians did not invent this idea out of nothing. They told the story of Jesus using the same narrative grammar their world had been speaking for generations. The question isn't whether the parallels exist. The scholarship is clear on that. The question is what it means for how we understand the origins of Christianity.
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#easter #gnosticinformant #emptytomb
This Easter, MythVision's Derek Lambert and Neal Sendlak (Gnostic Informant) are going LIVE to talk about what your pastor will never mention on Easter Sunday.
Long before the Gospels were written, the ancient Mediterranean world already had a well-established storytelling pattern for how divine and heroic figures die, disappear, and return. The missing body. The grieving women at the burial site. The empty tomb or vanished corpse. The post-mortem appearances. The ascension to the gods. This wasn't invented by the authors of the New Testament. It was a trope, and it was everywhere.
Dr. Richard C. Miller's groundbreaking research has shown that the Gospel resurrection and ascension narratives map directly onto the Greco-Roman "translation fable," a widespread literary convention used for figures like Romulus, Heracles, Aristeas, Empedocles, and others. The pattern is consistent: the great figure dies or disappears, the body goes missing, witnesses report seeing them alive afterward, and they are declared to have been taken up among the gods. Sound familiar?
But it goes even deeper. Across the ancient Near East, dying and rising gods were a recurring feature of religious life for centuries before Jesus. Osiris was reassembled and raised in Egypt. Inanna descended to the land of the dead and returned in ancient Sumer. Baal was swallowed by Death and restored to his throne at Ugarit. Melqart's annual resurrection was publicly celebrated in Tyre, just miles from Galilee. Adonis, Attis, Dumuzi. The tradition runs deep.
The earliest Christians did not invent this idea out of nothing. They told the story of Jesus using the same narrative grammar their world had been speaking for generations. The question isn't whether the parallels exist. The scholarship is clear on that. The question is what it means for how we understand the origins of Christianity.
