The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, Or Christianity Before Christ


Book Description

Presents an online edition of "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or Christianity Before Christ," written by Kersey Graves (1818-1883) and published online by Internet Infidels, Inc. Examines the theme of the crucified savior in religions dating before Christianity.




The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors


Book Description

The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors (or Christianity Before Christ) is an 1875 book written by Kersey Graves. It asserts that Jesus was not an actual person, but was a creation largely based on earlier stories of deities or god-men saviours who had been crucified, and descended to and ascended from the underworld. It has been noted that Graves derived "many of the most important facts collated in this work" from the comprehensive 1833 work, the Anacalypsis, by Sir Godfrey Higgins. These works thus present an early variant of what would come to be known as the Jesus myth hypothesis. The book is often used as a source for many Jesus myth hypothesis writers, including Acharya S, Tom Harpur and John G. Jackson.