The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors
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The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, or Christianity Before Christ was an 1875 book written by 19th century lecturer and sceptic Kersey Graves. It alleges that Jesus was not an actual person, but was a creation largely based on earlier stories of deities or god-men saviours who had been crucified, and descended to and ascended from the underworld.
Much of what is found in the book contradicts established facts about various mythologies mentioned, and several of the beliefs and traditions alleged to coincide with Christianity post-date Christianity's advent.
It has been noted that Graves derived "many of the most important facts collated in this work" from the comprehensive 1833 work, the Anacalypsis, by Sir Godfrey Higgins.
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- The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors - includes warnings on several pages that the site is making the book available "for historical purposes."
- Kersey Graves and The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors - criticism of the book by Richard Carrier.
