Jesus Christ in comparative mythology |Part of a series on| The
study of Jesus Christ in comparative mythology is the
examination of the narrative of the life of Jesus in the
Christian gospels, traditions and theology, as it relates to
Christian mythology and other religions. For over a century,
various authors have drawn a number of parallels between the
Christian views of Jesus and other religious or mythical
domains. These include Greco-Roman mysteries, ancient Egyptian
myths, and more general analogies involving cross-cultural
patterns of dying and rising gods in the context of Jesus myth
theory. While some scholars continue to support these analogies,
others contend that the perceived similarities are often without
historical basis, that first century monotheistic Galilean Jews
would not have been open to pagan myths, and that the analogies
are usually based on parallelomania, exaggerating the importance
of trifling resemblances. Comparative mythology  A number of
parallels have been drawn between the Ch