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...Second, there is the even more serious problem that Jesus could not have been invented as a dying-rising god because his earliest followers did not think he was God."

"There are two major problems with this view that Jesus was originally invented as a dying-rising god modeled on the dying and rising gods of the pagan world. First, there are serious doubts about whether there were in fact dying-rising gods in the pagan world, and if there were, whether they were anything like the dying-rising Jesus...

Took me a week to read one chapter, so many interruptions.

CHAPTER FOUR
Evidence for Jesus from Outside the Gospels
"As a result of our investigations so far, it should be clear that historians do not need to rely on only one source (say, the Gospel of Mark) for knowing whether or not the historical Jesus existed..."