Where did the Jesus myth come from?

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The jesus data set has failed to negate the null hypothesis. The jesus data set has shown exceedingly strong correlation with the fairy data set.

-In english- Jesus is a mythical beastie.

And the mythical beastie came from........

Apparently, an insignificant cultic group which was active at the end of the first millenium BC.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0...85,00.html

This, in turn, undermines one of the strongest literary arguments employed by Christians over centuries to support the historicity of the Resurrection (in which they believe on faith): the specificity and novelty of the idea that the Messiah would die on a Friday and rise on a Sunday. Who could make such stuff up? But, as Knohl told TIME, maybe the Christians had a model to work from. The idea of a "dying and rising messiah appears in some Jewish texts, but until now, everyone thought that was the impact of Christianity on Judaism," he says. "But for the first time, we have proof that it was the other way around. The concept was there before Jesus." If so, he goes on, "this should shake our basic view of Christianity. ... What happens in the New Testament [could have been] adopted by Jesus and his followers based on an earlier messiah story."