http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/archives/2007/saviour-gods-mutilated-throughout-antiquity/ The purpose of this website is to facilitate Muslim responses to the various mendacious polemics and distortions of Islam by the Christian missionaries and their anti-Islamic allies that are being spread over the Internet. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:15:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/archives/2007/saviour-gods-mutilated-throughout-antiquity/#comment-25897 ABarton Fri, 18 May 2007 13:31:25 +0000 http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/archives/2007/saviour-gods-mutilated-throughout-antiquity/#comment-25897 You might want to see a devastating rebutal to Tom Harpur's work at http://www.tektonics.org/harpur01.html Several scholars and journals also have given heavy criticism to this journalist's work: http://www.mcmaster.ca/mjtm/pdfs/MJTM%206.7%20Heath%20on%20Harpur.pdf http://www.grebel.uwaterloo.ca/tmtc/newsletters/2004oct.pdf The following is by a scholar who interviewed key scholars in the field's Harpur tries to deal with http://hnn.us/articles/6641.html In which he notes: Who is Alvin Boyd Kuhn? He is given the title ‘Egyptologist’ and is regarded by Harpur as “one of the single greatest geniuses of the twentieth century” [who] “towers above all others of recent memory in intellect and his understanding of the world’s religious.” As it turns out, Kuhn was a high school language teacher who was an enthusiastic proponent of Theosophy, a prodigious author and lecturer, who self-published most of his books. Ron Leprohan, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Toronto, pointed out that while “sa” means “son” in ancient Egyptian and “iu” means ‘to come,” but Kuhn/Harpur have the syntax all wrong. In any event, the name ‘Iusa’ simply does not exist in Egyptian. There is no evidence for the idea that Horus was ‘a fisher of men’ or that his followers (the King’s officials were called ‘Followers of Horus”) were ever twelve in number. KRST is the word for “burial” (“coffin” is written “KRSW”), but there is no evidence whatsoever to link this with the Greek title “Christos” or Hebrew “Mashiah”. ]]>