Re: On the link between Capernaum and John the Baptist
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2020 8:16 am
It is a crucifixion in Sheol. Period. And this thread is where you can discuss that precise point.
Dr. Carrier mean "her minions" as her servants/allies. I note that at least one of them has an androgyne nature. Just as Hermes, who may be the original John the Baptist.
in the Osiris Myth, the role of John the Baptist is assumed by the goddess Isis, who reconstructs the body of Osiris by collecting his disiepta membra from the waters.
My point is that, in all these myths, there is not only the already known pattern of the god dying and rising (a FACT denied only by apologists à la GakuseiDon), but also the resurrection of the god worked by a particular helper.
In the case of Osiris, the helper is Isis.
In the case of Innana, you and Carrier have mentioned the two creatures.
In the case of Jesus, the helper sent to make him risen, is John the Baptist.
While for me the analogy is not a coincidence (I mean: in the Earliest Gospel, John was introduced the first time as baptizer/burier of Jesus's corpse in Sheol, the role now held by Joseph of Arimathea), where I am always open to suggestions of any kind, is about the nature of John: was he evil or good ? Put otherwise:
Did he immerse the corpse of Jesus in the waters of death? Or in the waters of life ?