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===Scholarly reception and criticism===
===Scholarly reception and criticism===
Modern scholars of religion hold that tropes like "dying and rising gods" are outdated and based on dubious reconstructions from later sources, not early indigenous sources, since the earliest extant sources of examples mythicists often use (e.g. Adonis, Attis, Marduk, Tammuz/Dumuzi, Osiris, Inanna, etc) never make such claims, and there is no clear instance of a dying and rising deity narrative in the history of religions.<ref>Jonathan Z. Smith. "Dying and Rising Gods". Encyclopedia of Religion (2nd edition). Macmillan Reference. 2005. pp. 2535-2539. ISBN 978-0028659978. "There is no unambiguous instance in the history of religions of a dying and rising deity."</ref>
Historiographers of christ myth theory point out that mythicism has no real proponents in academia, despite their claims otherwise.<ref>Chrissy Hansen. 2023. Medium. [https://web.archive.org/web/20240831210934/https://medium.com/@cmehans2020/is-mythicism-going-mainstream-the-illusion-of-scholarly-support-in-mythicist-circles-07d2fb89dea1 Is Mythicism Going Mainstream?: The Illusion of Scholarly Support in Mythicist Circles] </ref> Modern scholars of religion hold that tropes like "dying and rising gods" are outdated and based on dubious reconstructions from later sources, not early indigenous sources, since the earliest extant sources of examples mythicists often use (e.g. Adonis, Attis, Marduk, Tammuz/Dumuzi, Osiris, Inanna, etc) never make such claims, and there is no clear instance of a dying and rising deity narrative in the history of religions.<ref>Jonathan Z. Smith. "Dying and Rising Gods". Encyclopedia of Religion (2nd edition). Macmillan Reference. 2005. pp. 2535-2539. ISBN 978-0028659978. "There is no unambiguous instance in the history of religions of a dying and rising deity."</ref>
The mythological view has been rejected by the historical community. Michael Grant stated that the view derives from a lack of application of historical methods:
The mythological view has been rejected by the historical community. Michael Grant stated that the view derives from a lack of application of historical methods: