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If you’re a fan of Harry or a fan of Jesus, Derek Murphy’s book will open your eyes to the startling similarities between these two characters and why those similarities exist. Murphy takes us on an in depth journey through the land of epic hero tales, their ancient origins and how (and why) they developed. By the end of the journey, Murphy pulls it all together and dares to ask who is perhaps the greater role model; Harry or Jesus?
I found this book eye opening and impossible to put down.

The initial discussion of Jesus Potter Harry Christ – focusing on J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, the commonalities between Jesus and Harry Potter as literary figures, ancient and current controversies, and pagan gods and goddesses in mythological traditions – sets the stage for Murphy’s comprehensive, fluid and riveting history of how and why Christianity rose and continued to develop through to the second Council of Nicea (787 AD). From Heraclitus to Plato, pagan and Jewish mythologies, readers are finally directed straight to the Apostle Paul and the instruction of his mysteries to congregations that laid the foundations of the early Christian world. Murphy’s book is too broad to capture in a single review, but suffice it to say that a changed worldview can be effected for laypeople and biblical commentators who are interested in deepening their awareness of the connections between pagan, Jewish, and Christian history. Clarice O’Callaghan – The Jesus Mysteries Yahoo forum.

This book is the masterpiece of Christian literature. Actually personally i think this book is really the source of christ myth. You can find true and tremendous christian history from this book. You can know the history of jesus from this book. Really it is truly useful rilegious book. Thank you !

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It is a another one awesome book that I never seen before. J.K. Rowling is a most popular writer in world. I personally like her. Who want to know about Christ Myth, mythology he or she must read this book because of it’s awesome details about bible. Really it’s a great book.

Bible study is one of the most and famous religious study in the world. The Jesus myth theory is the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was not an historical person. Anyway he was the best person like others. I am also really impressed after read the book of Harry Potter. Overall these books of historical Jesus, Jesus Christ, mythology and the other related is very much addictive for us. At last i just wanna say one thing that if we want to become a religious and honest person then these books are too important for our life.

If you want to read a book about Christ Myth, Christian history this is the answer. A piece of Christian Literature,combine with adventures of Harry Potter.I found it that J.K. Rowling, the writer has a lot to tale to the worldabout astrology and bible study. Is a great book a “must” have. Thank you J.K. Rowling for this one and i am wainting more to come.

I found this book eye opening and impossible. Really a great & magnificent book about discovering the astonishing relationship between Jesus Potter & Harry Christ. The book is all about The Jesus myth theory also known as the Christ myth theory and the nonexistence hypothesis. You can know the history of Jesus from this book. Murphy’s book is too broad to capture in a single review, but suffice it to say that a changed worldview can be effected for laypeople and biblical commentators who are interested in deepening their awareness of the connections between pagan, Jewish, and Christian history. Really it is truly useful religious book. Thank you !

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This is really Recommended for Reading if you like literature.

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This book contain many important information about the great relationship between Jesus Potter & Harry Christ. This book is also a great part of Christian literature. The Christ myth theory is also discussed in this book. Astrological symbolism and religious history are also emphasized on the Jesus Potter Harry Christ . This book is so nice of me, thanks for sharing such type of information.

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Jesus Potter Harry Christ (JPHC) is a wonderful book. I found the historical/literary Jesus in this book. This book uses easily understood language and it has cool story! Derek Murphy presents a good Christian literature in an interesting presentation. I am very pleased to read this book and you also have to read it!

any one wants the Christian history,this book provides all information and this is very interesting book.
its contains real Christian history. i will tell my friends and family members.
thank you very much to the book writers .Christian history is very important to life and its very help full to me .

I think that this book reveals about the real story of the jesus christ , so i think that its an fantastic book for mythologicals. its an heart touching book , the writers wrote only the truths. jesus potter and harry christ characters is very fine.By reading this book you can know the histrory of the christ. its an really cool book. The book is all about The Jesus myth theory also known as the Christ myth theory and the nonexistence hypothesis. Jesus Potter Harry Christ is all about religious history, comparative mythology.

thanks to this site for sharing this mythological world god jesus christ history and real story.

As usual a very pleasant Harry potter book to read. Now a days Harry Potter is very popular character among kids as well as among adults. Jesus is always the most favorite. So I think this J.K.Rowling character blend in Christ mythology will be interesting.

Its such a great idea of a book that shows similarities between the two characters. Using history, religion, and the popular Harry Potter series was truly amazing. I learned some new things I never known before with the Christian History, and I still got myself elbows deep in the book. I just started reading it and had not finished yet, but as of now I give it 5 Stars. Thanks you Derek for expanding your mind and putting your thoughts onto paper. Keep up he hard work.

This jesuspotterharrychrist book gives the historical literary evidence for Jesus. This is the greatest book about Christ Myth. I’m a History student
and always like to read books about Christian history.The Historical Jesus is a completely different kind of book and easy to understand.
I’m sure most of the people gonna like this book in coming days.Its really good news for all of us. its free to read through online.
Finally “I LOVE THIS BOOK A LOT”

I came to know about this book through one of my online friend. Book is about Jesus Potter Harry Christ. I like to read history books and always in the search of good history books. It is really one of my best books. I like this book. I suggest this book to all of my friends for study. Thanks for sharing such a nice information which surely help out the history students.

Nice!! I feel this book to be a historical literature with a modern input!! that too the linking to harry potter has made it more interesting!! The commanalities of jesus and potter is interesting to read which at the same time inculcates new questions and queries within us……
So i feel that this is a book that is worth reading by everyone, all around the world

Absolutely loved it! With so much misinformation being disseminated about Jesus Christ, this book was refreshing. Derek pulls from notable and reliable sources to frame his arguments in a way that is both intriguing and satisfying. His insights into the phenomena that captivate the fans of literary characters like Harry Potter and Jesus Christ are extraordinary. To anyone who enjoys a mystery being unraveled, Harry Potter Jesus Christ is a must read.”

The initial discussion of Jesus Potter Harry Christ – focusing on J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, the commonalities between Jesus and Harry Potter as literary figures, ancient and current controversies, and pagan gods and goddesses in mythological traditions – sets the stage for Murphy’s comprehensive, fluid and riveting history of how and why Christianity rose and continued to develop through to the second Council of Nicea (787 AD). From Heraclitus to Plato, pagan and Jewish mythologies, readers are finally directed straight to the Apostle Paul and the instruction of his mysteries to congregations that laid the foundations of the early Christian world. Murphy’s book is too broad to capture in a single review, but suffice it to say that a changed worldview can be effected for laypeople and biblical commentators who are interested in deepening their awareness of the connections between pagan, Jewish, and Christian history. Clarice O’Callaghan – The Jesus Mysteries Yahoo forum.

This is an awesome book. The content is about commonalities between Jesus Christ and Harry Potter. If you are a fan of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter or loving mythology, especially in Christ myth theory, this book is a perfect book to read. I also love the title of the book. It makes ones stop to wonder what is inside the book.

We all know about the magical Qualities and goodness of Harry Potter. The book – ” JESUS POTTER HARRY CHRIST ” points out the similarities of jesus christ and harry potter. Jesus is God the Son incarnated and believe that he rose from the dead after being crucified. He was a teacher, healer and Messiah. Harry potter in the same way did good deeds and always was with the truth and fought the Dark side. This book reveals many such points.

Its such a great idea of a book that shows similarities between the two characters. Using history, religion, and the popular Harry Potter series was truly amazing. I learned some new things I never known before with the Christian History, and I still got myself elbows deep in the book. I just started reading it and had not finished yet, but as of now I give it 5 Stars. Thanks you Derek for expanding your mind and putting your thoughts onto paper. Keep up he hard work.

Excellent book.This is very informative for us.I want to say about bible study. The bottom line of why we are to study the Bible is so we may know God, His Way, and grow in our knowledge and faith in Him so we can then be better used by Him. We are called to spiritual growth-that is, the formation of the investment of faith Christ gives us that we give back to Him in dividends. This is a deep conviction of our faith, a practiced submission that shows our obedience, and a life of personal and relational maturity. We can’t do this when we bring what we want into Scripture and not take out what God wants us to have! We have to listen to God; if not, we will not learn and then we will not grow and then we will not have a life of transformation.

Excellent book.This is very informative for us.I want to say about bible study. The bottom line of why we are to study the Bible is so we may know God, His Way, and grow in our knowledge and faith in Him so we can then be better used by Him. We are called to spiritual growth-that is, the formation of the investment of faith Christ gives us that we give back to Him in dividends. This is a deep conviction of our faith, a practiced submission that shows our obedience, and a life of personal and relational maturity. We can’t do this when we bring what we want into Scripture and not take out what God wants us to have! We have to listen to God; if not, we will not learn and then we will not grow and then we will not have a life of transformation.

A variety of historical books that should grab your aid the next time you study purchasing books for your Christian Library.
Christians should be very familiar with the account of the church. It is the bequest of God’s divine dealings with His chosen people from the time of Messiah until our ain years. It manages with the expression of school of thought, the martyrs of the religion, the growth of the body of the Christian church, and thousands of cardinal patterns that Deity powerful used for the propagation of Sojourner Truth and of the subject matter of the Gospel. Reading books about church story is essential reading material for the Christian Reader. Hopefully these testimonials will help. It can be habituated as intake and amusement for Christian readers who want to reckon the powerfulness of Gods agency of doing things triumph over the foes of kindness and making love. These are a few of the inputs made by adult readers. The book is written in such a direction that Christians can give it to their non-Christian champions as a fun.

Jesus Christ, who is traditionally considered a historical figure. It reveals astonishing secrets of Christian history. I am a student of history subject and this book is a great deal of knowledge for me. It is one of my favorite book. I recommend to my fellow students to read this book. It is from one the books which is easy to understand. I am very thankful to the writer of this book.

There is alot of thing to know about Christian history. This particular book Jesus potter harry christ is very interesting book that explains about so called christ myth. This book paves the clear path on showing congurancy between Jesus and Harry.
If anyone just think that he/she know everything about Jesus and its history (Christian literature) then its the must read book. Many thing you know could only be a small portion about it.

First I call That It is the bequest of God’s divine dealings with His chosen people from the time of Messiah until our ain years. It manages with the expression of school of thought, the martyrs of the religion, the growth of the body of the Christian church, and thousands of cardinal patterns that Deity powerful used for the propagation of Sojourner Truth and of the subject matter of the Gospel. Reading books about church story is essential reading material for the Christian Reader. Hopefully these testimonials will help. It can be habituated as intake and amusement for Christian readers who want to reckon the powerfulness of Gods agency of doing things triumph over the foes of kindness and making love.

Jesus Christ is considered as historical and religion hero,where Harry Potter is considered to Mythological hero with supernatural powers and different adventures.There are many intriguing similarities between Jesus and Harry, and reveals astonishing secrets of Christian history. The history of ancient Jesus Christ and the astrology tells about Christian history and his struggles where in myth we know how Harry escape from Deathly Hallows. All these are defined separately in their own stories and corresponding Bibles.Jesus Potter Harry Christ is similarities between faith and belief. This book tell us that similarities.

I think that, This Book is Very attractive and useful book. This site is very important for all and useful. Every man should like it. This book has about Harry Potter, which is very important. It also has historical Jesus. It is very important. This book in written about Christan literature. This page is designed to generate discussion, So, i feel very nice. This book particularly absorbing and highly topical, as part of the continuing debate over the nature of Christ not only among Christians but between them and today’s wave of atheist thinkers, Jesus Potter, Harry Christ is timely. So, I like it very much. Thanks for sharing.

J.K. Rowling’s new book Jesus Potter, Harry Christ is about the roots of the religious controversy surrounding the Harry Potter series, it reveals surprising secrets of Christian history. Jesus Christ is traditionally considered a historical figure, the story focused on tracing the intriguing common similarities between Jesus. Harry potter all series are one of the best selling books, this book must be unique as the other series.

J.K. Rowling’s new book Jesus Potter, Harry Christ is about the roots of the religious controversy surrounding the Harry Potter series, it reveals surprising secrets of Christian history. Jesus Christ is traditionally considered a historical figure, the story focused on tracing the intriguing common similarities between Jesus. Harry potter all series are one of the best selling books, this book must be unique as the other series.

A brave effort by the author Derek, for writing this book by travelling through the historical places like Rome,Europe and Israel and revealing the research under the main theme the mythical Influences on ancient historical figure Jesus Christ and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter,the fictional character.This book is not focussed only on Harry Potter but about religious history and astrological mythology.Through this one can know the hidden secrets of Christian literature and those who wants to go indepth of biblical literature should definitely go for this book.
Finally one is true,”All religions are meant only to shape the human being”.

J.K. Rowling’s new book Jesus Potter, Harry Christ is about the roots of the religious controversy surrounding the Harry Potter series, it reveals surprising secrets of Christian history.This book particularly absorbing and highly topical, as part of the continuing debate over the nature of Christ not only among Christians but between them and today’s wave of atheist thinkers, Jesus Potter, Harry Christ is timely. i liked it very much.

We all know about the magical Qualities and goodness of Harry Potter. The book – ” JESUS POTTER HARRY CHRIST ” points out the similarities of Jesus Christ and harry potter. Jesus is God the Son incarnated and believe that he rose from the dead after being crucified. He was a teacher, healer and Messiah. Harry potter in the same way did good deeds and always was with the truth and fought the Dark side. This book reveals many such points.
Its such a great idea of a book that shows similarities between the two characters. Using history, religion, and the popular Harry Potter series was truly amazing. I learned some new things I never known before with the Christian History, and I still got myself elbows deep in the book. I just started reading it and had not finished yet, but as of now I give it 5 Stars. Thanks you Derek for expanding your mind and putting your thoughts onto paper. Keep up he hard work.

very nice Harry potter book to read.,this book gives us all information and this is very interesting book.
I also love the title of the book.i will appreciate the effort by the author.

It can be habituated and enjoyed as amusement for Christian readers who want to reckon the powerfulness of God’s agency, and triumph over the foes of kindness and love, by appreciating and understanding their views.It’s about Harry Potter and Jesus Christ; two important characters/persons that should be of interest to everyone. I liked it very much. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the well researched background for the myth of Jesus Christ. As a veteran of many discussions about the historical Jesus and the historical Jesus Christ, as you point out two entirely different figures, I find your argument debunking the historical Jesus Christ interesting and persuasive. For a more complete discussion see HJCP on The Blue Roads of Thinking

Thanks for your comment! It would be really helpful if you could post this on amazon.com as well!

This book is interesting on the surface, but deeply flawed because Mr. Murphy did not pay attention to contemporary scholarship regarding oral-written interactions.   A crucial book that Mr. Murphy either didn’t know about or ignored when compiling his ideas is  _Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony_ by Richard Bauckham.  I urge Mr. Murphy to study Bauckham’s book before publishing anything further.  It’s not an easy breezy read, but “Jesus and the Eyewitnesses” is thorough in its analysis of the way oral literature interacts with written literature.

And regarding “awesome details about the Bible” mentioned by some in this discussion — Mr. Murphy does NOT know the Bible as well as all that, if he called Paul a “priest” (p. 339).   Paul was of the tribe of Benjamin, not Levi (Philippians 3:5).  Only Levites from the house of Aaron were priests.

Thanks for your comments, Betsy. I tried to use original source material rather than modern scholars (of either persuasion) – because modern scholars only interpret and present source material through the filter of their own opinion. This is especially true in the case of religious scholars who start from a position of faith before approaching the evidence. Bauckham’s book “The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony” not only does not prove that the gospel writers were eyewitnesses, but is lacking in evidence. He gives a fine argument of how oral literature may have become written literature – but it does not overpower the evidence I’ve collected in my own book, which cannot be ignored. (I second Neil Godfrey’s 1 star review of Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: “anti-enlightenment, pro-medieval fundamentalism in the guise of scholarship”.)

By the way, please post your comment on amazon as well – hopefully a 2 or 3 star at least if you appreciate the work that went into it?

Mostly likely the truth is somewhere in the middle – Jesus may have been a person who sparked a movement; but the gospels are literature and borrow extensively from pre-Christian (non-Jesus) sources.

Regarding your remark that modern scholars, especially of the religious persuasion, only present source material only through their own filters:  Try thinking at all without any filter.Stanley Fish: “I believe you cannot operate without [faith]. This is another way of saying that there’s no such thing as an open mind, and that’s a good thing. If you had an open mind, a mind not structured by presuppositions, it would have the characteristics of a sieve. Everything would just fall right through it. So I am an advocate of close-mindedness.”

G.K. Chesterton: “Merely having an open mind is nothing.  The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”You approach your “original source materials” with the mind of a modern.  What Dr. Bauckham does is open a window onto those ancient texts to allow us to read them the way the ancients did.  Don’t kid yourself; you are very religious and hold to as rigid a set of dogmas as I do; the big difference is that I, like a good scientist, can articulate my prior assumptions.Betsy E Perkins

Thanks again for your comment and the review on amazon, it’s much appreciated. I agree that no one has an ‘open mind’ and that everybody has a filter. I would hazard however that there is a difference between a filter that believes in logic, structured natural laws, cause and effect, and a filter that accepts supernatural or miraculous, non-causal solutions.

It’s interesting that you quote from Stanly Fish. I’m doing my PHD thesis mainly against Fish’s claim that Milton’s Paradise Lost is a program of “reader harassment”; a poem
designed to scold unwary readers who allow themselves to be tempted by grand rhetoric of Satan into momentarily pushing aside the “imperative of Christian watchfulness.” Fish’ perverse reading of Paradise Lost ignores everything on the surface of the text based on a presumed divine mission behind it.

Thanks again for your comment and the review on amazon, it’s much appreciated. I agree that no one has an ‘open mind’ and that everybody has a filter. I would hazard however that there is a difference between a filter that believes in logic, structured natural laws, cause and effect, and a filter that accepts supernatural or miraculous, non-causal solutions.

It’s interesting that you quote from Stanly Fish. I’m doing my PHD thesis mainly against Fish’s claim that Milton’s Paradise Lost is a program of “reader harassment”; a poem
designed to scold unwary readers who allow themselves to be tempted by grand rhetoric of Satan into momentarily pushing aside the “imperative of Christian watchfulness.” Fish’ perverse reading of Paradise Lost ignores everything on the surface of the text based on a presumed divine mission behind it.

Dear DerekMurphy,You must excuse this rather circuitous way of contacting you,but,after exhaustively scanning the internet,it woulf appear you have no “official” e-mail address for me or anyone else for that matter to personally submit our comments to. Anyway,what I wanted to say is that your book was a great read and should have been at the top of the New York Bestseller List instead of the “predictably limited” exposure it has received since it was first published. The reason for this is,as you well know,2000 years of PREPROGRAMMED CONDITIONING (aka WESTERN CULTURE). In laymans terms,this translates to your book not getting a FAIR HEARING in the court of popular (and therefore “Christianized”) opinion. Or,if you consider that your book has had a fair hearing,then the verdict has most definitely been the PREJUDICED CONSENSUS OF A “KANGAROO COURT”. To be sure,if you disagree with this assessment,then how come you are not as famous as Jesus Christ or Muhommad? If you wish to respond,I am more than happy to elaborate. With kind regards,Joseph Lis,LL.B.