Thanks Susan.

Mark said he thought that this was my reading / interpretation / conclusion of the ancient Egyptian pharaonic divine birth myth.

He is mistaken: it is the conclusion of various eminent academics whose expertise is in the period immediately preceding the birth of Christianity, in a place that was a stone's throw from Jerusalem.

If the Bible story of the Exodus is to be considered an historical fact then it is no surprise that the Canaanite tribe of Israel (those who fled Egypt under Moses and who settled in Canaa) are the only tribe to have believed in resurrection because this belief was appropriated and assimilated from the dominant Egyptian culture under which, according to the Bible, these Israelites had been enslaved for generations.

It would seem that when they fled Egypt, the Israelites took more than their possessions!

Matt