All of these hypothesis are attempts to attribute a single origin or cause, when

All of these hypothesis are attempts to attribute a single origin or cause, when we’re very well aware of the various origin stories that were folded into the jesus mythos in an attempt to attribute greater ‘cosmic’ legitimacy to a minor figure who had returned to the region (we don’t know where he was), wanted to imitate john the baptist, and was a bit of a revollutionary as much against how jews treated one another as against the romans.

They had about two hundred years of my-bulding to put together the four versions of the narrative, and then even longer to elaborate on it.

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