“Gnostic” Mythicism versus “Orthodox” Mythicism

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Re: “Gnostic” Mythicism versus “Orthodox” Mythicism

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Giuseppe wrote: Sun Sep 03, 2017 11:58 pm Already the Mythicist Edouard Dujardin called “euhemerist” the historicist position. So Acharya then. And finally Carrier.
Certainly most entities who may have been euhemerised, such as Jesus of Nazareth, are often viewed or portrayed as historical. That may have been Euhemerus's original purpose too (though we can't be fully sure of Euhemerus's position b/c his original account has not survived: we only have it second-hand).
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