According to Carrier, the genuine Pauline epistles show that the Apostle Peter and the Apostle Paul believed in a visionary or dream Jesus, based on a pesher of Septuagint verses Zechariah 6 and 3, Daniel 9 and Isaiah 52–53. Carrier notes that there is little if any concrete information about Christ's earthly life in the Pauline epistles, even though Jesus is mentioned over three hundred times. According to Carrier, originally "Jesus was the name of a celestial being, subordinate to God," a "dying-and-rising" savior God like Mithras and Osiris, who "obtainvictory over death" in this celestial realm. According to Carrier "[this 'Jesus' would most likely have been the same archangel identified by Philo of Alexandria as already extant in Jewish theology", which Philo knew by all of the attributes Paul also knew Jesus by. According to Carrier, Philo says this being was identified as the figure named Jesus in the Book of Zechariah, implying that "already before Christianity there were Jews aware of a celestial being named Jesus who had all of the attributes the earliest Christians were associating with their celestial being named Jesus".