#GeraldMassey, #MartinBernal, #RichardMiller, #AncientEgypt, #EgyptAndTheBible, #Resurrection #Mythicist Gerald Massey & Martin Bernal REACT to Richard Miller: “Your Resurrection Thesis Ignores EGYPT!”
Introduction: Framing Miller with Massey and Bernal Richard C. Miller’s Resurrection and Reception in Early Christianity (2015) proposes a provocative reinterpretation of the central claim of the Christian faith: the resurrection of Jesus. Miller’s core thesis is that the earliest Christians would not have understood the Gospel accounts of the resurrection as historical reportage, but as a “translation fable,” a common Mediterranean literary trope used to signify the divine status or deification of heroes, kings, and philosophers. Drawing on the archetypal legends of figures like Heracles and Romulus, Miller argues that resurrection narratives were fictive devices intended to exalt Jesus to the level of the demigods and emperors of the Hellenistic-Roman world. To evaluate Miller’s work rigorously, one must engage with the Egyptocentric diffusionism of Gerald Massey and the Afro-Asiatic model of Martin Bernal. Massey argues that the “original mythos and gnosis of Christianity” were primarily derived from Egypt. Bernal’s Black Athena framework identifies the “Afroasiatic roots” of classical civilisation, contesting the “Aryan model” that erases Egyptian and Levantine influence on Greece and Rome. These lenses allow for a critique of whether Miller’s “Greco-Roman” horizon adequately accounts for the African and Semitic genealogies that Massey and Bernal consider the primal sources of Mediterranean religious thought. Miller’s Thesis and Argumentative Architecture Miller’s argument progresses through a semiotic and philological examination of early Christian literature in its ancient context. …
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