The other side of religion and the John-Euripides comparison, in a book that will be discussed!
In the distant past, a god, the son of a god and a mortal mother, took on flesh and blood to live among mortals. He is rejected by the human race, including women in his close circle of companions, but having previously performed miracles, some of them related to wine. He dies violently, but soon comes back to life.
One would expect that the figure to whom the foregoing is attributed is with absolute certainty the Jesus of the Gospels. Despite all this, we are referring to Dionysus, god of the Greeks, exactly as described in Euripides' work, "The Bacchae".
In this study, the popular American professor of theology, Dennis MacDonald, thoroughly compares the Gospel of "John" with the work of the great ancient tragedian, revealing how the Evangelist not only borrowed elements of his hero from Euripides, but additionally expected from the readers of recognizing Jesus as a more capable and important god than Dionysus.
A shocking research that demonstrates in the most emphatic way the fact that many of the elements and dialogues that appear in the Gospels during the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD are nothing more than copies from texts of the ancient world, including, of course, and Greek.
Greek Mythologists
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