The Jesus Problem: A Restatement of the Myth TheoryRobertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
Religion
The Jesus Problem: A Restatement of the Myth Theory
Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
Jesus Christ
[18] Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd ed. p. 91. Cp. 93 sq.
[19] Id. p. 100. Cp. 106-7, 123.
[20] Id. p. 105. Cp. 109.
[21] P.C. 274 sq. A proselytizing Catholic Professor in Glasgow
has represented me as denying the historicity of Apollonius, having
reached that opinion by intuition.
[22] The Bhagavat Gîta, which glorifies Krishna, is late relatively
to the cult.
[23] Cp. Gunkel, Zum religionsgeschichtlichen Verständnis des N.T.,
1903, p. 5 sq.
[24] Apropos d'histoire des religions, p. 290.
[25] Jesus, by William Renton. Pub. by author, Keswick, 1879.
[26] Rep. by R.P.A. 1907.
[27] The Mythical Interpretation of the Gospels, 1916.
[28] E. g. He takes as applying to Jesus (p. 377) a remark applied
expressly and solely to the myth of Herakles.
[29] Work cited, p. 10.
[30] Second Leben Jesu, § 91 (3te Aufl. p. 569).
[31] See refs. in Drews, The Witnesses to the Historicity of Jesus,
Eng. trans. p. 23.
[32] As cited, p. 572.
[33] Jesus and Israel, Eng. tr., pp. viii, ix, 29.
[34] Putnams, 1912. I had not met with this work when I chose my own
title, The Historical Jesus, else I should have framed another.
[35] Work cited, pp. 335-353.
[36] Williams and Norgate, 1895.
[37] Work cited, p. 420.
[38] Id. p. 17, etc.
[39] The Historic Jesus, p. vii.
[40] In this connection he puts the theory--derived from the celebrated
Herr Chamberlain--that Jesus was not a Jew but an "Amorite."
[41] H.J. chs. xvii and xix.
[42] H.J. 199. On this compare The Four Gospels as Historical Records,
chs. vi-xiii.
[43] Canon Cheetham, Hulsean Lectures on The Mysteries, 1897, p. 115.
[44] "The primitive idea of the sacrificial meal, namely, that it is
by participation in the blood of the god that the spirit of the god
enters into his worshipper."--Prof. Jevons, Introd. to the Hist. of
Religion, 1896, p. 291. "Originally the death of the god was nothing
else than the death of the theanthropic victim."--Robertson Smith,
Religion of the Semites, 1889, p. 394.
[45] Jésus et la tradition évangélique, 1910, p. 106.
[46] H.J. 202-3.
[47] Loisy, p. 171.
[48] See refs. in H.J. 171; others in G.B. ix. 420 n. An overwhelming
case for the reading "Jesus (the) Barabbas" is established by
E. B. Nicholson, The Gospel according to the Hebrews, 1879, pp. 141-2.
[49] Mr. Lester translates "Son of a Teacher," but this (adopted by
Brandt) is an evasive rendering. He thinks the story, even if true,
had no connection with the condemnation of Jesus.
[50] Cp. Nicholson, as cited, p. 142.
[51] G.B. ix, 418; P.C. 146.
[52] G.B. ix, 419.
[53] Id. iv, ch. vi; P.C. 124.
[54] P.C. 152, 64; G.B. iv (Pt. III, The Dying God), 170 sq.
[55] P.C. 161. Cp. Turner, Samoa, 1884, 274-5; G.B. iv, ch. vi.
[56] P.C. 137, 161, 186; G.B. iv (Pt. III), 166.
[57] Macrobius, Saturnalia, i, 7. Cp. Varro, cit. by Lactantius,
Div. Inst. i, 21.
[58] G.B. iv, 14 sq., 46 sq., x, 1 sq.
[59] Cp. Ward's View of the Religion of the Hindoos, 5th ed. 1863,
p. 92.
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