Dionysus, known as Bacchus to the Romans, wad the god of wine. He was considered on of the Twelve Olympians. There are various accounts of his birth. One has him the result of the union of Zeus and Persephone. Dionysus was killed and dismembered by the titans but was rescued by Zeus and was attached … Read More “Dionysus” »
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The criteria of double dissimilarity is one of the tools that critical scholars use to sort through texts to determine which have a higher degree of certainty of going back to the historical Jesus. The idea is that if a saying in the Gospels does not look too Jewish or too Christian, it more likely … Read More “Double Dissimilarity” »