num_pages: 468
description: Clearly written and easily understandable by the lay reader.Thoroughly author's points are backed by references in the writings of acknowledged scholars.Special features of the lavishly illustrated with multiple images in each illustration that show at a glance the mythic themes paralleling the bible. This book demonstrates that the stories and themes of the Bible were part of the great mythic systems of the ancient world by u sing comparative mythology, tell tale verses in the Bible and archaeology. The abstract God of modern monotheistic Judaism, Christianity and Islam is a comparatively recent creation. In later times the myth of a messianic deliverer was combined with that of the pagan god-man who suffered a horrible, excruciating death but was physically resurrected to produce the Christ myth.
language: English
title: The Secret Origins of the Bible
titlecomplete: The Secret Origins of the Bible
genres: Christian, Atheism, History, Religion, Theology, Historical, Nonfiction, Christianity
ratings_count: 127
publisher: Millennium Pr