Having also read this work, I heartily concur with Grant Osborne's assessments.  People throughout church history have claimed to find parallels to the New Testament resurrection narratives.  But there NO accounts in any tradition or religion from the ancient Mediterranean world prior to the life of Jesus about a person, known to have existed as a human being who died during the lifetimes of thousands still alive who had seen and known him, who was bodily resurrected from the dead.  All alleged parallels are either (1) post-Christian; (2) not about bodily revivification; (3) not about human beings; and/or (4) about people from the remote past.  Crucial distinctions indeed!

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