The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Christianity Before Christ (Forgotten Books)

This is one of the most controversial books about the Christian narrative of Jesus ever published. Graves tried to gather together all of what was known at the time about other similar stories of gods who walked the earth, preached ethical and mystical doctrines, and ended up as deicides. Today, folklorists have discovered a set of world-wide themes relating a story of a culture-hero who has a miraculous birth and tragic death. This is one of the archetypal stories which Jung and Campbell discussed. It is now considered less shocking that incidents in religious narrative could be drawn from the global bank of folklore motifs. This does not lessen the impact, however, on traditional believers in these narratives as the absolute truth. (Quote from sacred-texts.com)About the AuthorKersey Graves (1813 - 1883)Kersey Graves was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, on November 21, 1813. His parents were Quakers, members of the Redstone Monthly Meeting in Fayette County. His father was Enos Graves (or Grave or Greaves) and his mother was Elizabeth [Betty] Jones. Kersey was the seventh of eight children. His family, with the families of a few of his uncles, moved to Wayne County, Indiana, just north of Richmond, in 1816, when Kersey was still an infant. The area was settled by Quakers as early as 1803. It is home to the Quaker-affiliated Earlham College. (Quote from spirithistory.com)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.http://www.forgottenbooks.org