[Rezension von: Whitaker, Max, 1975-, Is Jesus Athene or Odysseus? : investigating the unrecognisability and metamorphosis of Jesus in his post-resurrection appearances]
Around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, many scholars of comparative religions sought to demonstrate that the foundational beliefs of Christianity were completely derived from ideas that were already prevalent within ancient stories of Greco-Roman mythology. The enterprise of col...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 952-953 |
| Review of: | Is Jesus Athene or Odysseus? (Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2019) (Siniscalchi, Glenn B.)
Is Jesus Athene or Odysseus? (Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2019) (Siniscalchi, Glenn B.) Is Jesus Athene or Odysseus? (Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2019) (Siniscalchi, Glenn B.) |
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| Summary: | Around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, many scholars of comparative religions sought to demonstrate that the foundational beliefs of Christianity were completely derived from ideas that were already prevalent within ancient stories of Greco-Roman mythology. The enterprise of collecting parallels had the effect of undercutting the unique truth claims of Christianity as the newfound faith spread across the Mediterranean basin. As time went on, the scholarly influence of the ‘history of religions’ school lost most of its credibility, and today there are hardly any serious representatives who advocate for its basic theses. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flab146 |