Acharya S
Dorothy Milne Murdock (March 27, 1960 – December 25, 2015), better known by her pen names Acharya S and D. M. Murdock, was an American writer supporting the Christ myth theory that Jesus never existed as a historical person, but was rather a mingling of various pre-Christian myths, Sun deities and dying-and-rising deities.
Dorothy Milne Murdock | |
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Publicity photo of Murdock | |
| Born | March 27, 1960 Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | December 25, 2015 (aged 55) |
| Pen name | Acharya S |
| Alma mater | Franklin & Marshall College |
| Subject | History of religions |
| Years active | 1995–2014 |
| Notable works | The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold (1999), Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver (2014) |
| Website | |
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She wrote and operated a website focused on history, religion and spirituality, and astro-theology. She asserted the pre-Christian religious civilizations understood their myths as allegorical, but Christians obliterated evidence by destroying or suppressing literature after they attained control of the Roman Empire, leading to widespread illiteracy in the ancient world, ensuring the mythical nature of Christ's story was hidden. She argued the Christian canon, as well as its important figures, were based on Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and other cultures' myths. Her theories are not accepted by mainstream historians, textual critics, and archaeologists other than by a few other Christ mythicists such as, in part, Robert M. Price, a fellow of the Jesus Project.