A generalized depiction (Ѻ) of religio-mythology, in the context of scholars, i.e. thinkers who have studied the mythical roots of modern religions, such as how Christianity (e.g. Jesus) derives, in part from Greek mythology (e.g. Zeus) and Egyptian mythology (e.g. Horus) via syncretism; the Rosetta stone being the key to the Egyptian origins to almost all modern religions.

#	Early Centuries	Date	Selling	Publication[s] / Notes
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1.	Hesiod (c.750-650BC)	c.675BC		Supposedly based his Theogony (c.675BC), meaning “The Creation of the Gods”, via a transliteration of the Egyptian creation myths, the Heliopolis creation myth, specifically.
2.	Solon (c.638-558)	c.575BC		After travelling to Egypt, and learning their theology, according to Plato (Ѻ), he substituted Greek names for Egyptian ones, in writing about the Greek deities, according to which Amen-Ra became Zeus, Set became Typhon, Osiris became Dionysus, Horus became Hercules, Shu became Atlas, etc.
3.	Anaxagoras	c.450BC	Atheism | Labeled	Claimed that the sun was not driven by Apollo, mounted on a chariot, but rather, based on the "evidence" of examined fallen meteors, and the reasoned postulate that moon light was reflected sunlight, that it was a hot or fiery stone, moving in a fifth element, in addition to the standard four elements, he called “aether”, which he conceived of as being in constant rotation and carried with it the celestial bodies
4.	Herodotus	c.435BC		Devoted much of the second volume of his Histories, to Egyptian religion.
5.	Plutarch	c.100AD		Book: On Isis and Osiris.
6.	St. Ireneaus	125AD		Stated that there were a multitude of "gospels" in his time (Graham, 1975).
7.	Basilides	c.130AD		In his heretical “Acts of John”, Christ is described as encountering his followers in “many different guises, not especially a human one”.
8.	Justin Martyr	c.150AD
9.	Lucian	c.170		Gave one of the first secular accounts of Christians as a deluded creatures, who worship a crucified sage or man, who deny the Greek gods, who believe in immortality, and that the religion was but a get rich quick scheme played by someone by "tricking simple souls".
10.	Origen	c.230
11.	Bede	c.710
12.	Abraham Ezra (1089-1167)	c.1150		Discerned, according to Spinoza (Ѻ), that “Moses did not write all of the Pentateuch”.
13.	[A] Frederick II	c.1235		Attributed: Treatise on the Three Imposters (Dubbed: Atheist’s Bible)
14.	Meister Eckhart	c.1310
15.	Petrarch	1341		His epic poem Africa (Ѻ), equated Apollo, son of Zeus and slayer of Python, to Christ, son of god and slayer of Satan.
1#.	Desiderius Erasmus	c.1490
16.	Leonardo da Vinci	c.1500		Rejected Biblical flood theory as being responsible for depositing fossils many miles from their origin. (Ѻ)
17.	Pope Leo X	1514		Described the “fable of Christ” as a “profitable superstition”.
18.	Noel Journet	1582	Atheism | New religion	Asked the obvious question of how the Pentateuch, aka the Five Books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy), could have been written by Moses, as we are told they were, if the fifth book, of the series, specifically Deuteronomy 34 (Ѻ), describes Moses' own death?
19.	[A] Giordano Bruno	c.1590
20.	Gerardus Vossius	c.1630
21.	Samuel Bochart	c.1650	Apologetics	Student of Thomas Erpenius (1599-1667) (Ѻ), teacher of Pierre Huet, noted for doing work on the Bacchus-Moses connection (see: Osiris, Dionysus-Bacchus, and Moses), e.g. pointing out that they were both buried in unknown tombs (see: Moses pens his own death problem).
22.	Thomas Hobbes	c.1651	Crypto-atheism	First to argue that Moses was NOT the author of the Pentateuch.
23.	Isaac Peyrere	c.1655		Argued that there were men BEFORE Adam and that Moses was NOT the author of the Pentateuch.
24.	Benedict Spinoza	1670		Denied, citing Abraham Ezra (c.1150), that Moses wrote the Pentateuch.
25.	Pierre Huet	1679
26.	John Toland	1696/1722
	18th century	Date	Selling	Publication[s] / Notes
27.	Bernard Fontenelle	1724		Supposedly, did some of the first work on Bible as myth discussion.
28.	Voltaire	1728/1770	Deism/Atheism
29.	Marquis of Argens	1736		Argued, via geological reasons, that Noah’s flood is impossible.
30.	Jonathan Edwards (1703-1753)	c.1750	Apologetics	Building on, supposedly, Samuel Bochart, did work on the Bacchus-Moses connection. (Ѻ)
31.	Nicolas Boulanger	1761
32.	Immanuel Kant	c.1764		Compared Adam and Abraham with Adimo and Brahma, and argued that Joseph was equivalent to Ganesha.
33.	Baron d’Holbach	1770	[A] Materialism	The System of Nature: Laws of the Moral and Physical World [Atheist’s Bible]
34.	Charles Dupuis	1771/1806
35.	Constantin Volney	1771
36.	Ethan Allen	1784	Reason/Atheism	His Reason: the Only Oracle of Man, a harsh denunciation of Christianity, touched on the Moses pens his own death problem.
37.	[A] Thomas Paine	1794	Reason/Atheism	The Age of Reason [Atheist’s Bible]
	19th century	Date	Selling	Publication[s] / Notes
38.	Joseph Hager	1801
39.	William Hort	1802		Worked on the Bacchus-Moses connection. (Ѻ)
40.	Charles Lebrun	1803
41.	Thomas Jefferson	1804/1823	Epicurean materialism	Jefferson’s Bible
42.	Sergey Uvarov	1812		Connected Osiris with: Tammuz, Dionysus, Bacchus, Liber, and Adonis.
42.	[E] Thomas Young	1814/1818		Initiated: decipherment of hieroglyphics.
43.	[A] Napoleon Bonaparte	1817
44.	Edward Stillingfleet	1817		Worked on the Bacchus-Moses connection. (Ѻ)
45.	[E] Jean Champollion	c.1820/1822		Completed: decipherment of hieroglyphics.
46.	Heinrich Ritter	1829/1853
47.	Robert Taylor	1828/1833	Atheism	Was jailed for 3 years for publishing works arguing that "Jesus never existed".
48.	Charles Coleman	1832		Connects Egyptian, Hindu, and Roman mythologies. (Ѻ)
49.	Godfrey Higgins	1833
50.	David Strauss	1835
51.	Bruno Bauer	1840	Hegelian atheism	Argued that Jesus was myth per silent historians problem logic
52.	Franz Movers	1841
53.	[E] Samuel Birch	1841/1880
54.	Anon [German Jew] (Ѻ)	1841
55.	[E] Richard Lepsius	1842		Translation: Egyptian Book of the Dead (English).
Modern Religio-Mythology
56.	Logan Mitchell	1842/1881
57.	Jean-Marie Ragon (Ѻ)	1843
58.	Romualdo Gentilucci	1848
59.	Alexander Hislop	1853
60.	Samuel Dunlap	1858/1894		First to state the god-to-prophet technique, explicitly.
61.	[E] Peter Renouf (Ѻ)	c.1861
62.	Samuel Sharpe	1863
63.	Ernest Renan	1864		Chief of the German “higher criticism” school, which systematically studied the origins and sources of the Bible; his Life of Jesus (1864) established conclusively that the Bible was written over a long period of time, spanning perhaps as much as a millennium, finally assembled in a haphazard manner. [6]
64.	Charles King	1864/1887
65.	[E] Heinrich Brugsch	1864/1888
66.	William Cooper	1870/1876
67.	James Peebles (Ѻ)	1870
68.	Archibald Sayce	1872/1913
69.	Auguste Mariette	1873
70.	Kersey Graves	1875	Atheism / Secularism	The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors
71.	Helena Blavatsky	1877
72.	John Stuart-Glennie	1878
73.	DeRobigne Bennett	1881	Atheism
74.	Gaston Maspero	1881/1899
75.	[E] Gerald Massey	1881/1907	Evolution / Spiritualism [?]
76.	Thomas Doane	1882
77.	Herbert Hardwicke	1884/1887
78.	Edouard Naville	1886
79.	Iosif Kryvelev (Ѻ)	1887
80.	[A] Friedrich Nietzsche	1888
81.	James Frazer	1890/1915		The Golden Bough
82.	[E] Wallis Budge	1890/1929
83.	Watson Heston	1892/1900
84.	William Smith (Ѻ)	1894
85.	George St. Clair	1898
	20th century	Date	Selling	Publication[s] / Notes
86.	John Robertson	1900		In his Christianity and Mythology (Ѻ), he devotes chapters and sections to: “Christ and Krishna”, “Hebrew mythology”, Virgin and Child derived from Isis and Horus, Horus born on Christmas, etc.
87.	Albert Kalthoff (Ѻ)	1902/06
88.	Constantine Grethenbach	1902/1903
89.	Robert Shaw	1904		Connected Anubis with John the Baptist
90.	[E] Flinders Petrie (Ѻ)	1905
91.	Alice Grenfell	1906
92.	Arthur Drews (Ѻ)	1907
93.	Thomas Cheyne	1907
94.	Albert Churchward (Ѻ)(Ѻ)	1910/1921		The Christ Myth
95.	Singleton Davis	1910/1911		Editor of the Scientific Rationalism, Psychology, Biology, Sociology, Comparative Religion and Mythology, Freethought, Ethical Culture (Ѻ) magazine, wherein he (Ѻ) decodes (1910) things such as the Is-ra-el puzzle; which is host to articles such as: “What was Jesus: Man, Myth, or God?” by T.S Givan, among others.
96.	Wakeman Ryno	1912
97.	Hugo Gressman (Ѻ)	1913
98.	George Gurdjieff	1915
99.	Alan Gardiner	1916
100.	Ernst Sellin	1922
101.	Thomas Spivey (Ѻ)	1927/1935
102.	Henry Mencken	1930		In his Treatise on the Gods (Ѻ), citing Archibald Sayce [RMS:48], attempted to reconstruct Genesis as but a borrowed of ideas from the Babylonians.
103.	Joseph Wheless (Ѻ)	1930
104.	Alvin Kuhn	1930-1960
105.	Edward Ulback (Ѻ)	1936
106.	Sigmund Freud	1939
107.	Archibald Robertson (Ѻ)	1946
108.	Karel Hujer	1946	Universal consciousness
109.	Robert Graves	1948		His The White Goddess (Ѻ) was influential to Gary Greenberg.
110.	Joseph Campbell	1949/1960		Asserted, in his The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), the theory that a single myth stood behind the stories of Krishna, Buddha, Apollonius of Tyana, Jesus and other hero stories; in his The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology, Volume Three (1960), stated “it is clear that, whether accurate or not as to biographical detail, the moving legend of the crucified and risen Christ was fit to bring a new warmth, immediacy, and humanity, to the old motifs of the beloved Tammuz, Adonis, and Osiris cycles.” (Ѻ)
111.	[E] Rene Lubicz	1949
112.	Herbert Cutner (Ѻ)	1950
113.	Alexander Badawy (Ѻ)	1954
114.	Hilton Hotema	1956/1963
115.	Andrija Puharich (Ѻ)	1959
116.	Raymond Faulkner	1968		Published Spell 148 of the Coffin Texts, which gives the original account of the “virgin birth” and the “holy spirit”; also translated Egyptian Book of the Dead (1972).
117.	John Allegro (Ѻ)	1970/1971
118.	Jordan Maxwell	1970/2010
119.	George Wells (Ѻ)	1971/2004
120.	Othmar Keel (Ѻ)	1972
121.	Lloyd Graham	1975	Astrology, new age, gnosticism, evolution	Deceptions and Myths of the Bible
122.	Robert Temple	1976		In his The Sirius Mystery, based on the findings of Griaule and Dieterlen (1950), asserted the highly speculative view that the Dogon people, of Mali, West Africa, knew that Sirius was a binary star (Sirius A and Sirius B).
123.	James Arthur	1976/2000
124.	John Griffiths (Ѻ)	1980
125.	[E] Erik Hornung	1982/2001
126.	John Jackson	1985
127.	Richard Friedman	1987		Who Wrote the Bible
128.	Robert Bauval	1983		Figured out that the thee stars of Orion's belt are the basis of the three pyramids at Giza.
129.	Ahmed Osman (Ѻ)	1990
130.	Karl Luckert	1991
131.	Anthony Browder	1992	Amen-stylized unseen force of god model	Noted for his Nile Valley Contributions to Civilizations (1992) and for his semi-intelligent video discussions (Ѻ) of the Washington obelisk being the symbol of Osiris or his phallus.
132.	Michael Jordan	1993
133.	Bart Ehrman	1993/2016
134.	[E] Gary Greenberg	1996/2011		101 Myths of the Bible
135.	J.S. Gordon (1946-2013)	1997		In his Land of the Fallen Star Gods, building on the work of Helena Blavatsky, digresses on stars, gods, and mythology.
136.	Moustafa Gadalla (Ѻ)	1997/2007
137.	Muata Ashby	1997/2015
138.	Dorothy Murdock	1999/2014	Spiritualism / Atheism	The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
139.	Timothy Freke	1999/2012
140.	Earl Doherty (Ѻ)	1999/2009		The Jesus Puzzle
	21st century	Date	Selling	Publication[s] / Notes
141.	Richard Cassaro	2000		In 2000, he commissioned (Ѻ) a New York City street artist to make the now-famous Jesus and Osiris split image parallelism (adjacent), for book he was drafting, tentatively entitled Osiris: the Egyptian Christ; penned a 2011 rudimentary article (Ѻ) on this connection.
142.	Kenneth Humphreys	2001/2014		Inspired (Ѻ) by: Earl Doherty (The Jesus Puzzle, 1999); Dorothy Murdock (The Christ Conspiracy, 1999); Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy (The Jesus Mysteries, 1999); George Wells (The Jesus Myth / The Jesus Legend, 1999); Arthur Drews (The Christ Myth, 1910); Robert M. Price (Deconstructing Jesus, 2000); Hyam Maccoby (The Mythmaker: Paul & the Invention of Christianity, 1987); Burton Mack (Who Wrote the New Testament?, 1995); and Elaine Pagels (The Gnostic Gospels, 1979), launched: JesusNeverExisted.com, which turned 2014 book. (Ѻ)
143.	Patrick Geryl (Ѻ)	2001
144.	Gene Matlock	c.2002		Worked on the Abraham and Brahma problem.
145.	Daniel Lazare (Ѻ)	2002
146.	Richard Gabriel (Ѻ)	2002
147.	Tim Callahan (Ѻ)(Ѻ)	2002/2005
148.	Libb Thims	2003
149.	Simson Najovits	2003/2009
150.	Tom Harpur	2004-present	Theism | Christ within	The Pagan Christ
AR	W. Ward Gasque	2004		20 leading Egyptologists poll [3]
151.	Ralph Ellis (Ѻ)(Ѻ)	2004
152.	Bojana Mojsov	2005		Was in the documentary “The Hidden Story of Jesus” (Ѻ), discussing the Osiris-Jesus connection; book: Osiris: Death and Afterlife of a God (Ѻ)(Ѻ)
153.	Joseph Atwill	2005/2012
AR	John Holding	c.2005/2008		[4]
AR	Stanley Porter & Stephen Bedard	2006		Unmasking the Pagan Christ: An Evangelical Response to the Cosmic Christ Idea [5]
154.	Peter Joseph	2007		Film: Zeitgeist
155.	Harry Tabony (Ѻ)	2007
156.	Fahim A. Knight (Ѻ)	2007
157.	Bill Maher	2008	Atheism | Rationalism	Film: Religulous [2]
158.	Gordon Johnston	2008		Connects Genesis to Hermopolis creation myth (compare: Gary Greenberg). [8]
158.	John Pippy (Ѻ)	2009
160.	Eddie Austerlitz (Ѻ)	2010
161.	David Fitzgerald	2010	Atheism
162.	Joseph Matlock (Ѻ)(Ѻ)	2010
163.	Michael Paulkovich	2012		His No Meek Messiah digresses on the silent historians problem and explains how a large number of "spells" of the Book of the Dead became centerpieces of the Bible.
AR	Jon Sorenson [CA]	2012		“Horus Manure: Debunking the Jesus/Horus Connection” [2]
164.	Larry Marshall (Ѻ)	2013
165.	Horus Gilgamesh	2013	Non-believer [Non-identifying atheist]
AR	Mark Foreman [CA]	2013		“Challenging the Zeitgeist Movie”
166.	John Ostrowick (Ѻ)	2013
167.	Pier Tulip	2013		Author of the 2013 Italian published Krst: Gesu un Mito Solare (Ѻ), inspired by Dorothy Murdock, translated in English as Krst: Jesus a Solar Myth (2015) (Ѻ).
168.	[A] Richard Carrier	2014	Atheism | [Type?]

“It would appear almost an act of folly, in pretending to uproot that ancient Upas-tree (Ѻ)(Ѻ) of religious superstition, under the poisonous shade of which mankind has been for [millennial] ages accustomed to repose, and the roots of which are so widespread and profound.”

— Charles Dupuis (c.1794), cited as views in agreement with by 1872 English translator [1]

“We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects. Yet, how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact! There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny our doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation. Who would run the risk of translating Dupuis?”

— John Adams (1825), “Letter to Thomas Jefferson”, Jan 23

“Let me not be called a wicked atheist for seeing the likeness between Brahma and Abraham.”

— Godfrey Higgins (1833), Anacalypsis, Volume One (pg. 391)

“Birch and Brugsch are the two greatest masters of Egyptology.”

— Wallis Budge (1904), The Gods of the Egyptians, V1 (pgs. 63-64)

“The points of contact between Judaism and the religion of Babylonia have frequently been mentioned by numerous writers, but the traces of Egyptian mythology in both Jewish and Christian scriptures have not been so much noticed, nor could they be till quite lately. It is only within the last few decades that students have been sufficiently well provided with mythological texts and commentaries to be in possession of the necessary material, thanks to the labors of Birch [Samuel Birch], von Bergmann, von Bissing, Breasted, Brugsch, Budge, Chabas, Deveria, Grebaut, Guieysse, de Horrack, Jequier, Lanzone, Ledrain, Lefebure, Legrain, Lieblein, Mariette [Auguste Mariette], Maspero, Moret, Piehl, Pierret, Pleyte, Renouf, Sharpe, Spiegelberg, Wiedemann and others. The relationship of Egyptian mythology to Jewish religion is too large a subject to discuss fully; haec peritioribus relinguo [these religious experts]; so I only mention a few traces of Egyptian influence in the Old Testament, but there are many others. I will then point out the more numerous Egyptian touches in the New Testament.”

— Alice Grenfell (1906), “Egyptian Mythology and the Bible”; cited by Thomas Cheyne (1907)