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Dorothy Milne Murdock [1] [2] [3] (March 27, 1960 – December 25, 2015), [4] better known by her pen names Acharya S and D. M. Murdock, [5] [6] was an American writer supporting the Christ myth theory, which asserts that Jesus never existed as a historical person, but was rather a mingling of various pre-Christian myths, solar deities and dying-and-rising deities.
The nativity accounts in the New Testament gospels of Matthew and Luke do not mention a date or time of year for the birth of Jesus. [a] Karl Rahner states that the authors of the gospels generally focused on theological elements rather than historical chronologies. [6] Both Luke and Matthew associate Jesus' birth with the time of Herod the ...
Amycus, king of Bebrycians and son of Poseidon. [1] Amycus, a centaur who fought against the Lapiths during the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia. [2] Amycus, one of Aeneas' companions in Italy. He was killed by Turnus. [3] Amycus, was married to Theano, a Trojan woman remembered for having given birth to Mimas, the same day that Paris was ...
[25] [26] According to Ehrman, Jesus was a first-century Judean Jew, who was not like the Jesus preached and proclaimed today, [q 12] and that the most widely held view by critical scholars is that Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet [27] who was subsequently deified.
Christian antiquity held 25 March as the actual day of Jesus' death. [7] The opinion that the Incarnation also took place on that date is found in the pseudo-Cyprianic work De Pascha Computus, c. 240. It says that the coming of Jesus and his death must have coincided with the creation and fall of Adam. Since the world was created in spring ...
The date of birth of Jesus of Nazareth is not stated in the gospels or in any secular text, but most scholars assume a date of birth between 6 BC and 4 BC. [1] Two main methods have been used to estimate the year of the birth of Jesus: one based on the accounts of his birth in the gospels with reference to King Herod's reign, and another based on subtracting his stated age of "about 30 years ...
"If we remember the prevailing tradition represented by the majority of the early Christian scholars dated the birth of Jesus in 3/2 B.C., and if we accept the time of Herod's death as between the [lunar] eclipse of Jan 9/10 and the Passover of April 8 in the year 1 B.C., then we will probably date the nativity of Jesus in 3/2 B.C., perhaps in mid-January in 2 B.C." p. 319, §549.
Weinland predicted Jesus would return on 29 September 2011. [42] [43] [44] When his prediction failed to come true, he moved the date of Jesus' return to 27 May 2012. [45] When that prediction failed, he then moved the date to 18 May 2013, claiming that "a day with God is as a year," giving himself another year for his prophecy to take place.