Peter Jensen (Orientalis)
Peter Christian Albrecht Jensen (16 Agustus 1861 - 16 Agustus 1936), dikenal sebagai Peter C. Jensen adalah seorang Jerman orientalis dan pendukung Teori mitos Yesus.
| Peter Christian Albrecht Jensen | |
|---|---|
| Lahir | 16 Agustus 1861 Bordeaux |
| Meninggal | 16 Agustus 1936 Marburg |
| Pekerjaan | Orientalist, Professor bahasa Semit |
Jensen berpandangan bahwa tokoh Alkitab seperti Yesus, Musa dan Paulus didasarkan pada mitos Babilonia.[1][2]
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- ^ Hinnells, John R. (2007). A Handbook of Ancient Religions. Cambridge University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-0521847124 "Peter Jensen, a distinguished Assyriologist, argued that Abraham, Jesus and John the Baptist, for example, were borrowed from Babylonian mythology and that the Gilgamesh epic, to him a kind of astral saga, was the basis for the New Testament and the Koran."
- ^ Heschel, Susannah. (2008). The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany. Princeton University Press. pp. 57-58. ISBN 978-0691148052 "Peter Jensen, professor at the University of Marburg, published a pamphlet in 1909 asserting that Moses, Jesus and Paul were three variants of Babylonian divinities. A year later he published another pamphlet, questioning the reliability of sources for Jesus's life as related in the gospels, and suggesting it was contrived along the lines of hero myths such as the Gilgamesh epic."