One of the foremost scholars of ANE epigraphy is Christopher Rollston. In this article he details a bit about belief in resurrection. Sure to piss off xtian shitwits.... but who cares.
It's actually the second story on the page and concludes with:
http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?cat=5&paged=2
Xtians love to think they are special....but they are not.
It's actually the second story on the page and concludes with:
Quote:Thus, in the final analysis, the cumulative evidence is decisive: There is nothing distinctively “Christian” about a belief in a resurrection. Rather, some segments of Late Second Temple and Early Post-Biblical Judaism believed in a resurrection and some segments did not. Christianity, as an heir to apocalyptic branches of Judaism, was quite consistent in always affirming a belief in a resurrection, but the fact remains that belief in a resurrection is well attested prior to the rise of Christianity, and this belief also persists in certain segments of Judaism after the rise of Christianity.
http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?cat=5&paged=2
Xtians love to think they are special....but they are not.
