30 September 2009
New Testament Resurrection Theology Based on Ancient Egyptian Religion?
Posted by MSH under: Ancient Egypt; Cult Archaeology; Zeitgeist .
Anyone who has seen the internet video Zeitgeist likely recalls this assertion about New Testament theology. Those in academia know that Zeitgeist’s content is deeply flawed, but that hardly matters, since most of the people who but into its ideas aren’t scholars or anyone else working in the fields of New Testament Studies or Egyptology.
Toward exposing this truckload of paleobabble, I submit this article by Nicholas Perrin entitled, “On Raising Osiris in 1 Corinthians 15.” It’s a scholarly piece, but I think it’s readable for the non-specialist. It exposes the problems with this popular correlation.
One Comment so far...
Booklist 2010 # 3: Egyptian Mythology by Geraldine Pinch « Beyond Assumptions Says:
15 January 2010 at 6:59 PM.
[...] and Remus/take your pick of a Mediterranean deity-hero. As Michael Heiser of Paleobabble notes most serious scholars (read: people with actual Ph. D.s working in relevant fields such as [...]
