How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?

[rightcoaster]

The dying/resurrected god is a common motif in ancient mediterranean religions. It was necessary to account for the onset of winter and the rebirth that comes with spring and some priest...eager to protect his livelihood...(as always) invented a story which spread in one variant or another to neighboring cultures.

The Jesus resurrection myth was different, Min. No solstice here, but a Spring festival; and no gods involved. Since the earliest followers were Jews the problem for them was that the body of the dead human being Jesus was gone from the tomb. I assumed as "facts" only that Jesus was executed, put in a tomb, and the tomb was empty on Sunday AM when his followers came looking for him. I provided a plausible explanation of those "facts" that fit with Jewish law and Roman practice, and that required no miracle, no "resurrection".

At that time Jesus was not "divine", that came later. He was still just a man, but perhaps considered as Moshiakh by his followers, which is OK under Judaism. Moshiakh has to be a person, and the most recent of which I am aware was Rabbi Schneerson of the Lubavitcher Khassidim, who died maybe twenty years ago. There have been many Jewish "Messiahs": Bar Kokhba in about 135CE, Shabtai Zvi in the 17th C as I recall, to name a couple other pretenders. It is not against Jewish law to consider a man to be the long-awaited Messiah. The proof is another matter, of course.

So, as a man and the putative Messiah there was nothing inconsistent with Judaism about Jesus for his followers. There were even other resurrections of dead persons in Judaism -- I think to Elisha is attributed one.

The problem for Judaism is the apotheosis (I think that is the right word) -- the making of Jesus into a divine being. That's impossible in Judaism: trinitarian excuses notwithstanding it goes against the unity of God.

So, unless you have more to offer, you are not correct on this one.