Both the Old and the New Testaments abound in geographical and historical details, although, as Larry Hurtado pointed out, readers of the “Gospels may have become so accustomed to these things that they have to pause to note the sheer abundance of local color…an impressive body of information about the geography and sociocultural features of Roman Judea.”46 In contrast, Isis’s ‘biography’ took place entirely within the invisible world of the gods. No human ever clasped her hand or joined her at table. Isis simply could not be freed from the fundamental shortcomings of mythology.
