Historicity of Jesus

In Egypt there was Osiris, in Greece was Dionysus, Asia Minor was Attis, Syria was Adonis, Persia was Mithras, in Alexandra was Serapis.

By way of enemy attestation from a non-Christian, Tom Harpur wrote in The Pagan Christ (2004; on page 38, 39, 53), "The only difference-and it was quite radical-between the Jesus story of the New Testament and the many ancient myths...is that nobody among the ancients, prior to the full-fledged Christian movement, believed for one moment that any of the events in their dramas were in any way historical.... In Christianity, however, the myth was eventually literalized, Jesus was historicized.... The Church converted a whole mass of romantic legends or myths into...history."