The Jesus narrative is paralleled in Middle Eastern myths about dying and rising gods; Price names Baal, Osiris, Attis, Adonis, and Dumuzi/Tammuz as examples, all of which, he writes, survived into the Hellenistic and Roman periods and thereby influenced Early Christianity.
The Jesus narrative is comparable to those found in Middle Eastern myths about gods who die and then rise again; Price cites Baal, Osiris, Attis, Adonis, and Dumuzi/Tammuz as examples, all of which survived into the Hellenistic and Roman periods and influenced Early Christianity.