The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Christianity Before Christ [Hardcover]

Kersey Graves (Author)

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Publication Date: December 1, 2007

Khrisna of India. Thammuz of Syria. Esus of the Celtic Druids. Mithra of Persia. Quexalcoati of Mexico. All were crucified gods, and all met their fates hundreds of years before Jesus appeared on the scene. In this foundational work of modern atheism, American spiritualist KERSEY GRAVES (1813-1883) breaks the Christ myth down into its component parts and ably demonstrates how the story of Jesus has its roots in the depths of antiquity. Here you'll read about the surprising prevalence throughout global folklore of: . the miraculous and immaculate conception of the gods . stars that point out the time and place of a savior's birth . angels, shepherds, and magi visiting an infant savior . the 25th of December as the universal birth date of gods . saviors who descend into Hell . and much more. This is essential reading for students of comparative mythology and modern freethinkers. ALSO AVAILABLE FROM COSIMO: Graves's The Biography of Satan and The Bible of Bibles

Product Details

• Hardcover: 436 pages
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics (December 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1605200301
• ISBN-13: 978-1605200309
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,068,063 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, February 6, 2008

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This review is from: The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Christianity before Christ (Paperback)

This book was written in 1875 and has extensive lists of pagan Gods that have similar themes as Christianity and precepts that match it as well. At the end of the book it has a review of the book's main themes that is very helpful as the book has 433 pages. I made it to page 410 thinking that most of the book was throughly researched although the resources were in the text itself and not all that clear in some instances points were made using science and logic but when I got to page 410 things took a drastic change seems the author believed that Jesus was a spiritual medium not a deity on the basis he knew people who were mediums. Seems science was only needed to prove Jesus wasn't a deity but seeing was believing for mediums no science needed.
So for you readers out there like me who are strictly rationalists and lean strongly toward science and resources that may be a bit off putting. I'm not so sure you need to throw out the baby with the bath water in this case but it does make one pause as I said it was 1875 so maybe some slack for the author is in order.

9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hindu Influences on Christianity, August 17, 2009

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This book was full of information and backed up its thesis well: that little in Christianity was original. Two cautions: the book was written about 1875, and the author mentions Chrishna (Krishna)in connection with Buddhism instead of Hinduism, though either way his life antedated many details of Christ's.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Old idea, January 24, 2011

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Christians have heard this argument a thousand times, but few really know what people mean by saying that little in Christianity is original. This book provides you with the reasoning behind this claim in an exhaustive way. I found this book to be a much better choice than any of Robert Price's books because Price gets his ideas (or most of them) from this author. For a good counter-argument I recommend The Jesus Legend by Eddy and Boyd.