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The study of Jesus Christ as myth is the examination of the narrative of Jesus, the Christ ("the Anointed") of the gospels, Christian theology and folk Christianity from the perspective of mythography, as a central part of Christian mythology, paralleling mystery religions of the Roman Empire such as Mithraism and the myths of rebirth deities and sacral kingship.
The study of such elements is often, but not exclusively, associated with a skeptical position toward the historicity of Jesus. The claim of a purely mythical Jesus with no base in history, popularly known as the "Jesus-Myth theory", goes back to David Strauss' Life of Jesus (1835) and is now rejected by the majority of Biblical scholars and historians of classical antiquity.[1] For a discussion of the question of historicity, see historicity of Jesus.