{"id":31047,"date":"2015-07-15T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=31047"},"modified":"2015-07-15T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T20:54:12","slug":"horus-manure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/07\/horus-manure.html","title":{"rendered":"Horus Manure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019m not sure how I missed it, but a few years ago, Catholic apologist Jon Sorensen came up with a very clever title for a post about alleged Jesus-Horus parallels: Horus Manure<\/a>. Whatever you think of the post, that\u2019s a pun that was too good not to share.<\/p>\n

More up to date, Gakusei Don (who is a regular commenter here) updated his review of Richard Carrier\u2019s book<\/a>, On the Historicity of Jesus<\/a>\"\"<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Also of interest, Matthew Ferguson proposed the Certamen of Homer and Hesiod as a parallel to the New Testament Gospels<\/a>. Mythologized biography is not unique to early Christianity by any means.<\/p>\n

I also have meant for some time to mention Daniel Gulotta\u2019s series of posts about Dennis Macdonald\u2019s work: his SBL presentation<\/a>, Jesus and Odysseus<\/a>, and a review<\/a> of The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark<\/a>\"\"<\/i>. I also meant to mention a while back David Hayward\u2019s post<\/a> about Richard C. Miller\u2019s book, Resurrection and Reception in Early Christianity<\/a>\"\"<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And in case anyone wants to chime in, I\u2019ve somehow ended up talking with a mythicist on one of my YouTube videos<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

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