PaleoBabble » Zeitgeist http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble Your antidote to cyber-twaddle and misguided research about the ancient world. Tue, 22 May 2012 02:29:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= New Testament Resurrection Theology Based on Ancient Egyptian Religion? http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2009/09/new-testament-resurrection-theology-based-on-ancient-egyptian-religion/ http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2009/09/new-testament-resurrection-theology-based-on-ancient-egyptian-religion/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:35:06 +0000 MSH http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/?p=338 Continue reading →]]> 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.

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