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Thank you. I suspect Acharya S invented most of these.

On my Mithras pages, I've started a page "Mithras and Jesus", intended to deal with the crazy stuff. After all, most people who read that "Mithras had 12 disciples" and repeat it do so in good faith. Since I have another page to address connections that have some merit, I thought...

Roger, can you provide the basis for your belief? If you're going on the same evidence as that which Monette cites, cool - or if you have other evidence in mind, it would be useful to know of it. Thanks. I'm afraid not. I read that yonks ago, but never went into it further. Possibly the author I re...

I don't believe there is anything exceptional, in this period, at the release of the bodies for burial.

perseusomega9 wrote:The OP author usually goes by Greatest I Am on other fora. He's not here for the historical discussion, but rather to evangelize his brand of modern gnosticism.

Ah... many thanks.

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We don't use that method directly but indirectly it does factor in... I think this is discussing a different issue. The point being made, to which I responded, is that we must use contemporary and archaeological evidence as our criterion of whether people exist. This is mistaken. It doesn't advance...

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What Hoffmann doesn't seem to realize is that Caesar's weight in history is clearly felt in the writings of contemporaries, his own writings, archeological artifacts, etc. I ought to point out that we have contemporaries, own writings and archaeology for a very tiny handful of people in antiquity (...