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{{short description|American Christ myth theorist (1960–2015)}}
'''Acharya S''' is the ] of '''D. Murdock'''. A proponent of the ], she has authored two books and operates a website called . Her contention is that all religion is founded in earlier myth and that the characters depicted in Christianity are the result of the plagiarizing of those myths to unify the ].
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'''Dorothy Milne Murdock'''<ref>{{cite book |title=The Masks of Christ |first1=Lynn |last1=Picknett |first2=Clive |last2=Prince |year=2008 |page= |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4165-9446-8 |name-list-style=amp}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics |first=Mark W. |last=Foreman |editor1-first=Paul |editor1-last=Copan |editor2-first=William Lane |editor2-last=Craig |chapter=Challenging the ''Zeitgeist'' Movie: Parallelomania on Steroids |publisher=B&H Publishing |location=Nashville, Tennessee |year=2012 |name-list-style=amp |isbn=978-1-4336-7220-0 |page=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://campus.lakeforest.edu/academics/greece/Partic-OtherSchools.html|title=Participants-Other Schools|website=campus.lakeforest.edu|access-date=January 19, 2019}}</ref> (March 27, 1960&nbsp;– December 25, 2015),<ref name="CourantObit">{{cite news |title=Dorothy Murdock |date=January 24, 2016 |newspaper=] |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hartfordcourant/obituary.aspx?pid=177367841 |access-date=March 27, 2016}}</ref> better known by her ] '''Acharya S''' and '''D. M. Murdock''',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://truthbeknown.com/author.htm |title=Who is Acharya S? |author=Murdock, D. M. |website=Truth Be Known |access-date=January 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511202505/http://truthbeknown.com/author.htm |archive-date=May 11, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="priceforeword">{{cite book |first=Robert M. |last=Price |author-link=Robert M. Price |chapter=Foreword |title=Who Was Jesus?: Fingerprints of the Christ |editor-first=D.M. |editor-last=Murdock |publisher=Stellar House |location=Seattle |year=2011 |orig-year=2007 |isbn=978-0-9799631-0-0 |pages=v–vii}}</ref> was an American writer supporting the ], which asserts that ] never existed as a historical person, but was rather a mingling of various pre-Christian myths, ] and ].<ref>{{cite book |first=Clinton |last=Bennett |author-link=Clinton Bennett |title=In Search of Jesus: Insider and Outsider Images |location=London |publisher=] |year=2001 |isbn=0-8264-4916-6 |page=208}}</ref>
==Books==


She wrote and operated a website focused on history, religion and spirituality, and ]. She asserted the pre-Christian civilizations understood their myths as allegorical, but Christians obliterated evidence by destroying or suppressing literature after they attained control of the ], leading to widespread ] in the ], ensuring the mythical origins of Jesus's story was hidden. She argued the ] canon, as well as its important figures, were based on Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and other cultures' ]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.truthbeknown.com/christ.htm |title=The Christ Conspiracy&nbsp;– Home |access-date=September 11, 2009 |archive-date=May 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511221356/http://truthbeknown.com/christ.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her theories are not accepted by mainstream historians, ], and archaeologists, however have been promoted by scholars such as ], a fellow of the ], and prominently featured in the 2005 documentary '']''.
Her 1999 book, ''The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold'', is a development of part of her website. A follow-up book, ''Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled'', discusses her views further. It is largely written to address criticisms of her former book. In it, she comments on the ] story of the life of ], as well as the life of ] (Siddhartha Gautama). She claims parallels to the life of Jesus, presenting this as evidence that the story of Jesus was written based on existing stories, and not the life of a real man.


==Life==
==Claims about Christianity==
Murdock was born to James Milne Murdock and Beatrice Murdock in ], and grew up in ].<ref name="CourantObit" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://new.exchristian.net/2016/01/tribute-to-mythicist-dm-murdock-1961.html|title=Tribute to Mythicist D.M. Murdock, 1961-2015|last=ExChristian.Net|date=January 10, 2016 |access-date=January 19, 2019}}</ref> She received a ] degree in ] and Greek Civilization from ], then spent a year at the ], Greece.<ref name="CourantObit" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.truthbeknown.com/credentials.html |title=What Are Acharya's Credentials? |author=Acharya S |access-date=July 1, 2008}}</ref> She had one son.


She died of liver cancer on December 25, 2015. She was known as "Dori" to her loved ones.<ref name="CourantObit" /><ref>{{cite web|last1=Barker |first1=N.W. |title=December 27th update |url=https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/lsn9/u/updates/138747 |publisher=GiveForward |access-date=December 31, 2015 |date=December 27, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107075320/https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/lsn9/u/updates/138747 |archive-date=January 7, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Barker|first1=N.W.|title=Acharya S/D.M. Murdock Memoriam|url=http://freethoughtnation.com/acharya-sd-m-murdock-memoriam/|publisher=Freethought Nation|access-date=March 12, 2017|date=January 16, 2016|archive-date=February 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222222620/http://freethoughtnation.com/acharya-sd-m-murdock-memoriam/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Acharya denies the ], describing the New Testament as a work of ] fiction with an historical setting,plagerised form earlier Sources. The story of Christ, she maintains, is actually a retelling of various ] myths, all of which represent "astro-theology" or the ]. She asserts that the pagans understood these stories to be myths but that Christians obliterated evidence to the contrary through the destruction and control of literature, such as the ] for instance, once they attained control of the Roman Empire.


==Writing career==
This purportedly led to widespread illiteracy in the ancient world and ensured that the mythical nature of Christ's story was hidden. It is maintained that Scholars of other sects continued to oppose the historicizing of a mythological figure. Where no evidence exists, Acharya claims that this is because the arguments were destroyed by Christians. However, Christians preserved these contentions, she states, through their own refutations.
Murdock began her website, ''Truth Be Known'', in 1995.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.truthbeknown.com/ |title=Welcome to the world of Acharya S/D.M. Murdock! |website=Truth Be Known |access-date=December 26, 2015}}</ref> 1999, as Acharya S, she published her first book, ''The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold'', arguing the ] story is a fabrication.<ref name="cover">Adventure Unlimited Press, rear cover of Murdock (1999)</ref> Her 2007 book, ''Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ'' continues the theme of ''The Christ Conspiracy'' by expanding her theory questioning the ], alleging "early Christian history to be largely myth, by sorting through available historical and archaeological data." In 2009, she released ''Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection'' and ''The Gospel According to Acharya S''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Gospel According to Acharya S |url=http://stellarhousepublishing.com/gospel.html |publisher=Stellar House Publishing |access-date=July 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716134319/http://stellarhousepublishing.com/gospel.html |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


Murdock also wrote refutations of ] theories, asserting they "may be prompted by the same type of motivation that produced the ], a chronicle largely consisting of the plagiarized myths of other cultures" re-fashioned as 'fact' concerning purported legend-based characterizations, and may be driven by the attempt to validate biblical myth as historical under a different 'interpretation'."<ref>{{cite news |last=Murdock |first=Dorothy Milne |date=6 January 2014 |title=Who are the Anunnaki? |website=Truth Be Known |url=http://www.truthbeknown.com/anunnaki.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=March 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919200912/http://www.truthbeknown.com/anunnaki.htm |archive-date=September 19, 2012}}</ref>


==Reception==
Acharya compares Jesus' history to that of other Saviourgods, such as ], ], ], ], ], ];claiming that the similarities result from a common source, the myth of the sun-god.
Murdock's work received strong criticism from New Testament scholars and historians of early Christians. Agnostic ] scholar ] wrote in his '']'' that "all of Acharya's major points are in fact wrong" and her book "is filled with so many factual errors and outlandish assertions that it is hard to believe the author is serious". Taking her as representative of some other writers about the Christ myth theory, he continues "Mythicists of this ilk should not be surprised that their views are not taken seriously by real scholars, mentioned by experts in the field, or even read by them".<ref name="Ehrman2">{{cite book|last=Ehrman|first=Bart D.|title=Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2012|isbn=978-0-06-208994-6|location=New York|pages=20–24|oclc=808490374|author-link=Bart D. Ehrman}}</ref>


Emeritus Professor of New Testament Languages and Literature at the ] ] criticized her work for "her anti-Christian outlook, a lack of any proper sense of reality, failure to give adequate references, inability to interpret primary sources correctly, and dependence on inaccurate out-of-date secondary sources rather than primary evidence."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Casey|first1=Maurice|title=Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?|date=2014|publisher=T&T Clark|isbn=978-0567447623|pages=288}}</ref>
In ''"The Christ Conspiracy"'' she describes this theory, noting for instance the Alledged ] parallels between the story of Christ, and the stories of other deities. She claims this is rooted in the motion of the SUn throuough the year. Her claism arethat the oriigonal solar myth contianed several key elements, including: ''"The sun 'dies' for three days at the winter solstice, to be born again or resurrected on December 25th"'', and ''"The sun enters into each sign of the zodiac at 30 ; hence, the 'Sun of God' begins his ministry at 'age' 30."''


Baptist comparative religion scholar ] compares her views to those of radical freethinker ] (nicknamed "the Devil's chaplain"), secularist MP and Christ-mythicist ], and American mythographer ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bennett|first=Clinton|title=In Search of Jesus: Insider and Outsider Images|publisher=]|year=2001|isbn=0-8264-4916-6|location=London|page=339|author-link=Clinton Bennett}}</ref> ] religion professor ] describes her viewpoint as one that "once had some currency among scholars" in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but was subsequently abandoned.<ref name="mcgrath2">{{cite news|last=McGrath|first=James F.|date=November 15, 2011|title=Fringe View: The World of Jesus Mythicism|volume=128|page=12|work=]|issue=123}}</ref>
==Claims about other religions==


The book received mixed reviews among conspiracy theorists and supporters of the Christ myth theory. Writer ], in his book ''You Are Being Lied To'', describes ''The Christ Conspiracy'' as "an essential book for anyone who wants to know the reality behind the world's dominant religion".<ref>{{cite book |first=Russ |last=Kick |author-link=Russ Kick |title=You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths |url=https://archive.org/details/You_Are_Being_Lied_To_-_The_Disinformation_Guide_to_Media_Distortion_Historical_ |location=New York |publisher=] |year=2001 |isbn=0-9664100-7-6 |page=}}</ref> Conspiracy theorist and publisher ] calls her a "great chronicler of the conspiracy known as Christianity".<ref>{{cite book |first=Kenn |last=Thomas |author-link=Kenn Thomas |title=Parapolitics: Conspiracy in Contemporary America |publisher=] |year=2006 |isbn=1-931882-55-X |pages=15, 127}}</ref>
Acharya S is highly critical of certain aspects of ], in particular ]. She writes online about the alledged creation of a ] ] which would impose the ]:

<blockquote>If the Hassidic Jewish Movement has its way, the so-called Noahide Laws would be followed to the letter, as would many others found in the "Old Testament," prescribing capital punishment for abortion, euthanasia and "sexual deviation" such as adultery and homosexuality. The punishment, in fact, for breaking any of the Noahide Laws is decapitation
.</blockquote>

In another online essay, she quotes allegations by conspiracy researcher Mae Brussell that the ] smuggled ] to ] "for future use when it would attempt to obtain ] and single world government.... The rumor was... that the Mormon Church had arranged to assist ] in bringing off ]."

Her criticisms have also been directed against ] and ]:

<blockquote>While the Dalai Lama himself may be a charismatic caring leader, the Tibetan religious system is not devoid of exploitation. When Tibet was autonomous, the firstborn male of every household was required to enter the priesthood, a repressive law that served as one of the justifications by the Chinese for invading Tibet and "freeing" its people from despotic priests.</blockquote>

==Criticisms==

While shares her view that the ] accounts are borrowed from pagan sources, he is critical of her scholarship. He writes:

<blockquote>I got a copy and read it for myself, and immediately I cringed... We sometimes feel, in these pages, to be lost in a forest of false cognates. Can it be true, for instance, that “Solomon” is a trilingual synthesis of words for “the sun”? Sol from Latin, Om from Sanskrit, On from Ethiopic. This conceit she derives from ]. Elsewhere she endorses a contradictory theory, from the same writer, that Solomon is instead derived from Suleyman (=universal emperor), a Persian title. It is symptomatic of the “kettle logic” that permeates this book: any argument is good, whether or not consistent with the others in the arsenal, as long as they are all aimed at the same target.</blockquote>

However, his review was not entirely negative. He also said:

<blockquote>"Murdock presents us with a whole smorgasbord of “unorthodox” theories, some of them quite legitimate, such as a deconstruction of the Rabbinical apologetic that had us imagining for so long that ancient Israelite religion was monotheistic. It is now clear enough (see, e.g., Mark S. Smith, The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel, 1987, or Margaret Barker, The Great Angel: A Study of Israel’s Second God, 1992) that the ancient Hebrews worshipped Yahweh amid a pantheon of gods. If that comes as shocking news to some, so be it. That is a reason neither to reject nor to relish the fact.</blockquote>

See ] for a longer discussion of ] ].
See also response to Robert Price"s review by Acharya here: --

] ] has also her work, to which she replied:
<blockquote>The disreputable and untrustworthy Christian apologist "James Patrick Holding" has been receiving and releasing malicious, false and libelous information about me, provided to him by a mentally ill fugitive wanted on three felonies, including child abduction. In his typically vicious, unprofessional, unethical and immoral manner, Holding first revealed my name--also gained from this felonious source and now posted all over the internet--and then passed along the false and libelous material to his fanatic followers, who have since threatened me with further exposure of personal information and lies received from this deranged criminal, who committed violent crimes against me and my small son. Because of this despicable behavior, it is obvious that this man, JP Holding, has no integrity, and that his writings should not be given credibility.</blockquote>

Another refutation, by Christian apologist Mike Licona, may be found . She , and Licona wrote a .

==Life==


Atheist activist and Christ mythicist ] criticized her use of the inscriptions at Luxor to make the claim that the story of Jesus' birth was inspired by the Luxor story of the birth of ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.frontline-apologetics.com/Luxor_Inscription.html |title=Brunner's Gottkoenigs & the Nativity of Jesus: A Brief Communication |first=Richard C. |last=Carrier |author-link=Richard Carrier |year=2004 |publisher=Frontline Apologetics |access-date=December 30, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123093556/http://www.frontline-apologetics.com/Luxor_Inscription.html |archive-date=January 23, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Theologian and Christ-mythicist ] also criticized Murdock's first book,<ref name="Price 66–67">{{cite journal |last=Price |first=Robert M. |author-link=Robert M. Price |title=Aquarian Skeptic |journal=] |date=Summer 2001 |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=66–67 |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-10515613_ITM}}</ref> while promoting her ''Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled'' in ''The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-Four Formative Texts'',<ref>p. 1179</ref> and writing the foreword to her ''Who Was Jesus?: Fingerprints of the Christ''.<ref name="priceforeword" />
Acharya S has been described, by the '']'' website, as a historian, mythologist, religious scholar, linguist, archeologist, a Claim she herself makes on her website and in her books, and even, by Internet essayist ], as "the ranking religious philosopher of our era". She has a ] degree in ], Greek Civilization, from ]. SHe wasadmited into the .


==Publications==
She is a fellow of the , a division of the ].
*{{cite book |last=Murdock |first=D.M. (as Acharya S) |title=The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold |location=Kempton, Illinois |publisher=] |year=1999 |isbn=0-932813-74-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/christconspiracy00sach }}
*{{cite book |last=Murdock |first=D.M. (as Acharya S) |title=Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled |location=Kempton, Illinois |publisher=Adventures Unlimited Press |year=2004 |isbn=1-931882-31-2}}
*{{cite book |last=Murdock |first=D.M. |title=Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ |publisher=Stellar House Publishing |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-9799631-0-0}}
*{{cite book |last=Murdock |first=D.M. |title=Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection |publisher=Stellar House Publishing |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-9799631-1-7}}
*{{cite book |last=Murdock |first=D.M. |title=The Gospel According to Acharya S |publisher=Stellar House Publishing |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-9799631-2-4}}
*{{cite book |last1=Murdock |first1=D.M. |last2=Joseph |first2=Peter |title=The Zeitgeist Sourcebook - Part 1: The Greatest Story Ever Told |year=2011 |url=http://www.stellarhousepublishing.com/zeitgeistsourcebook.pdf |access-date=February 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728010710/http://stellarhousepublishing.com/zeitgeistsourcebook.pdf |archive-date=July 28, 2019 |url-status=dead }}
*{{cite book |last=Murdock |first=D.M. |title=Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver |publisher=Stellar House Publishing |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-9799631-8-6}}


==See also==
While preserving her privacy, she been interviewed on a variety of radio stations. In an interview she said she came from a moderate Christian background. Though not traumatic or "Fundamentalist", she described it as "boring" and said she ceased attending church regularly at age 12.
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==References==
Her inspiration for exploring the ] theory was apparently Joseph Wheless's book ''Forgery in Christianity''. She then read other works, such as ]' '']'', and Barbara Walker's ''The Woman's Encyclopaedia of Myth and Secrets''.
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American Christ myth theorist (1960–2015)

Dorothy Milne Murdock
Publicity photo of MurdockPublicity photo of Murdock
BornMarch 27, 1960 (1960-03-27)
Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedDecember 25, 2015(2015-12-25) (aged 55)
Pen nameAcharya S
Alma materFranklin & Marshall College
SubjectHistory of religions
Years active1995–2014
Notable worksThe Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold (1999), Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver (2014)
Website
truthbeknown.com

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, which asserts that Jesus never existed as a historical person, but was rather a mingling of various pre-Christian myths, solar deities and dying-and-rising deities.

She wrote and operated a website focused on history, religion and spirituality, and astro-theology. She asserted the pre-Christian 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 origins of Jesus'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, however have been promoted by scholars such as Robert M. Price, a fellow of the Jesus Project, and prominently featured in the 2005 documentary The God Who Wasn't There.

Life

Murdock was born to James Milne Murdock and Beatrice Murdock in Massachusetts, and grew up in Avon, Connecticut. She received a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree in Classics and Greek Civilization from Franklin and Marshall College, then spent a year at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece. She had one son.

She died of liver cancer on December 25, 2015. She was known as "Dori" to her loved ones.

Writing career

Murdock began her website, Truth Be Known, in 1995. 1999, as Acharya S, she published her first book, The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, arguing the Jesus story is a fabrication. Her 2007 book, Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ continues the theme of The Christ Conspiracy by expanding her theory questioning the historicity of Jesus, alleging "early Christian history to be largely myth, by sorting through available historical and archaeological data." In 2009, she released Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection and The Gospel According to Acharya S.

Murdock also wrote refutations of ancient astronauts theories, asserting they "may be prompted by the same type of motivation that produced the Bible, a chronicle largely consisting of the plagiarized myths of other cultures" re-fashioned as 'fact' concerning purported legend-based characterizations, and may be driven by the attempt to validate biblical myth as historical under a different 'interpretation'."

Reception

Murdock's work received strong criticism from New Testament scholars and historians of early Christians. Agnostic New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman wrote in his Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth that "all of Acharya's major points are in fact wrong" and her book "is filled with so many factual errors and outlandish assertions that it is hard to believe the author is serious". Taking her as representative of some other writers about the Christ myth theory, he continues "Mythicists of this ilk should not be surprised that their views are not taken seriously by real scholars, mentioned by experts in the field, or even read by them".

Emeritus Professor of New Testament Languages and Literature at the University of Nottingham Maurice Casey criticized her work for "her anti-Christian outlook, a lack of any proper sense of reality, failure to give adequate references, inability to interpret primary sources correctly, and dependence on inaccurate out-of-date secondary sources rather than primary evidence."

Baptist comparative religion scholar Clinton Bennett compares her views to those of radical freethinker Robert Taylor (nicknamed "the Devil's chaplain"), secularist MP and Christ-mythicist John M. Robertson, and American mythographer Joseph Campbell. Butler University religion professor James F. McGrath describes her viewpoint as one that "once had some currency among scholars" in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but was subsequently abandoned.

The book received mixed reviews among conspiracy theorists and supporters of the Christ myth theory. Writer Russ Kick, in his book You Are Being Lied To, describes The Christ Conspiracy as "an essential book for anyone who wants to know the reality behind the world's dominant religion". Conspiracy theorist and publisher Kenn Thomas calls her a "great chronicler of the conspiracy known as Christianity".

Atheist activist and Christ mythicist Richard Carrier criticized her use of the inscriptions at Luxor to make the claim that the story of Jesus' birth was inspired by the Luxor story of the birth of Horus. Theologian and Christ-mythicist Robert M. Price also criticized Murdock's first book, while promoting her Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled in The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-Four Formative Texts, and writing the foreword to her Who Was Jesus?: Fingerprints of the Christ.

Publications

See also

References

  1. Picknett, Lynn & Prince, Clive (2008). The Masks of Christ. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-4165-9446-8.
  2. Foreman, Mark W. (2012). "Challenging the Zeitgeist Movie: Parallelomania on Steroids". In Copan, Paul & Craig, William Lane (eds.). Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics. Nashville, Tennessee: B&H Publishing. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-4336-7220-0.
  3. "Participants-Other Schools". campus.lakeforest.edu. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  4. ^ "Dorothy Murdock". Hartford Courant. January 24, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
  5. Murdock, D. M. "Who is Acharya S?". Truth Be Known. Archived from the original on May 11, 2012. Retrieved January 1, 2010.
  6. ^ Price, Robert M. (2011) . "Foreword". In Murdock, D.M. (ed.). Who Was Jesus?: Fingerprints of the Christ. Seattle: Stellar House. pp. v–vii. ISBN 978-0-9799631-0-0.
  7. Bennett, Clinton (2001). In Search of Jesus: Insider and Outsider Images. London: Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 208. ISBN 0-8264-4916-6.
  8. "The Christ Conspiracy – Home". Archived from the original on May 11, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2009.
  9. ExChristian.Net (January 10, 2016). "Tribute to Mythicist D.M. Murdock, 1961-2015". Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  10. Acharya S. "What Are Acharya's Credentials?". Retrieved July 1, 2008.
  11. Barker, N.W. (December 27, 2015). "December 27th update". GiveForward. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
  12. Barker, N.W. (January 16, 2016). "Acharya S/D.M. Murdock Memoriam". Freethought Nation. Archived from the original on February 22, 2017. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  13. "Welcome to the world of Acharya S/D.M. Murdock!". Truth Be Known. Retrieved December 26, 2015.
  14. Adventure Unlimited Press, rear cover of Murdock (1999)
  15. "The Gospel According to Acharya S". Stellar House Publishing. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
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