> I mistrust the reliability of sites like positiveatheism
That is of course up to you. But why? They have a pretty extensive bibliography and footnote their claims. Here is the list of notes from the article I quoted of.
Notes:
1. Ch. vii. 29.
2. Isa. iii.
3. Ch. xii. 10 sqq.; cf. Movers, op. cit., i. 196.
4. Ch. viii. 14.
5. Op. cit., 78.
6. Frazer, "The Golden Bough," 1900, ii. sq.
7. Frazer, "Adonis, Attis, Osiris," 1908, 128 sqq.
8. "The Golden Bough," 1., 111. 20 sq.
9. Verse 14.
10. Op. Cit., viii. 24-29.
11. Gen. xv. 17.
12. Ghillany, op. cit., 148, 195, 279, 299, 318 sqq. Cf. especially the chapter "Der alte hebräische Nationalgott Jahve," 264 sqq.
13. J. M. Robertson, "Pagan Christs," 140-148. It cannot be sufficiently insisted upon that it was only under Persian influence that Jahwe was separated from the Gods of the other Semitic races, from Baal, Melkart, Moloch, Chemosh, &c., with whom hitherto he had been almost completely identified; also that it was only through being worked upon by Hellenistic civilisation that he became that "unique" God, of whom we usually think on hearing the name. The idea of a special religious position of the Jewish people, the expression of which was Jahwe, above all belongs to those myths of religious history which one repeats to another without thought, but which science should finally put out of the way.
14. "Golden Bough," iii. 138-146.
15. Movers, op. cit., 480 sqq.
16. VI. 47 sqq., 209 sqq.
17. Cf. Gunkel, "Schöpfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit," 1895. 309 sq. E. Schrader, "Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament," 1902, 514-520.
18. Ch. viii. 15. Cf. also vi. 8, 9.
19. "Abhandlungen d. Kgl. Ges. d. Wissenschaften zu Göttingen," xxxiv.
20. Cf. also P. Wendland, "Ztschr. Hermes," xxxiii. 1898, 175 sqq., and Robertson, op. cit., 138, note 1.
21. In the same way the Phrygian Attis, whose name characterises him as himself the "father," was also honoured as the "son," beloved and spouse of Cybele, the mother Goddess. He thus varied between a Father God, the high King of Heaven, and the divine Son of that God.
22. Frazer, op. cit., iii. 138-200. Cf. also Robertson, "Pagan Christs," 136-140.
23. Keim, "Geschichte Jesu," 1873, 331 note.
24. Ghillany, op. cit., 510 sqq.
25. Id. 505.
26. 2 Sam. xxi. 9; cf. Lev. xxiii. 10-14.
27. "Hist.," xviii. 7.
28. 2 Kings iii. 27.
29. "Hist. Nat.," xxxiv. 4, § 26.
30. Mentioned in Eusebius, "Praeparatio Evangelica," i. 10. Cf. Movers, op. cit., 303 sq.
31. "Der Mythus bei den Hebräern," 1876, 109-113.
32. Cf. Ghillany, op. cit., 451 sqq.; Daumer, op. cit., 34 sqq., 111.
33. Numb. xx. 22 sqq., xxvii. 12 sqq., xxxiii. 37 sqq., Deut. xxxii. 48 sqq. CF. Gilhlhany, op. cit., 709-721.
34. Deut. xviii. 15.
35. Cf. Heb. v.
36. Diodorus Siculus, ii. 44.
37. Justin, "Dial. cum Tryphone," cap. xc.
38. Schürer, op. cit., ii. 555. Cf. also Wünsche, "Die Leiden des Messias," 1870. |
