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wow. Thanks guys

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DCHindley wrote:
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According to the Marcionites, what follows (is sect) "42"

A comment on Richard Carrier's blog: Alif: This paper [link below] deals with euhemerism as a theory that has been (mis-) treated in various ways by both ancient and modern writers. This theory, formulated by Euhemerus of Messene (late fourth century B.C.E.), maintained that Zeus and the other Olym...

I think Carrier's usage of 'Euhemerized' is wrong if he thinks the product of the process can be a historicized ascending godman, but that this really doesn't impact his theory. There is no reason why someone couldn't create a story of a historicized ascending godman based on a celestial myth. It j...

Wikipedia is a mess on it. This is interesting - http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=207716&p=32 "The early Christian euhemerism, on the other hand, concentrates on Euhemerus' earthly gods in order to show the superiority of the Christian God, but also to establish a clear-cut class...

... Still, very strange he keeps getting the definition right ("gods are turned into historical men ") and the application wrong ("gods turned into historical ascended godman ") Well , he does say in that reply - " Consequently any historicizing of a God is doing what Euhem...

I have read the Roubekas article on Celsus and if I understand well, it seems that Euhemerus was a rationalist insofar as his historical Uranus was not divine nor semi-divine while he was on Terra firma, and was deified post-mortem by the man Zeus because he was a ordinary king but benefactor of AL...

Here is a link to a digital edition: What is Euhemerism? A Brief History of Research and Some Persisting Questions ”, Bulletin for the Study of Religion 43.2 (2014): 30-37. http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=207716&p=32 Cheers. From p 35 - "The early Christian euhemerism, on the o...

... As far as I can see Euhemerus said the gods were once mortals ie. their origin was earthly. Yes, it seems Euhermerus said that, but falsely [/b]!! Surely, it makes no sense to turn this around to propose that the origin of the gods was heavenly and Euhemerus created an earthly existence for the...

WHICH EUHEMERISM WILL YOU USE? NICKOLAS P. ROUBEKAS* This paper deals with euhemerism as a theory that has been (mis-) treated in various ways by both ancient and modern writers ... https://www.academia.edu/5792859/Which_Euhemerism_will_you_use_Celsus_on_the_Divine_Nature_of_Jesus . What Carrier ne...

1 . Giuseppe says August 1, 2015 at 12:31 am ... But were there cases where the euhemerizer historicized a previous celestial god X but only not calling ‘X’ his fabricated human hero but renaming him Y? The question arises from the possibility (but, alas, it’s only a remote possibility) that the fi...