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"Note: Dominic Crossan, in 'the Historical Jesus', pages 415-416, also suspects the original gospel ended at 15:39." My understanding is that J.D. Crossan would put the ending of GMark 1:1-x:x at 16:8. It is the hypothesized 'pre Markan passion narrative' also sometimes (ie, by Crossan) ca...

Paul did not think Jesus was God. Hurtado is wrong about that. I think he draws a false dichotomy between human and "divine" Christologies and gives to short a shrift to angelic Christologies. I agree. Citing Hurtado here is certainly not without its problems. What about "Wisdom"...

I'll admit to feeling out of my depth here. I have e-mailed Richard Carrier for any possible clarification that he can make here.

Fernando Bermejo-Rubio makes three arguments: http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/2013/12/rub378009.shtml and the first is, I claim, an example of the fallacy known as an argument from ignorance: http://peterkirby.com/the-logic-of-debate-and-the-historicity-of-jesus.html and betrays lack of understandi...

spin wrote:First we note the silence on the "procurator" error that does not reflect what we know Tacitus knows.

At the risk of opening my mouth and removing all doubt, I ask if it is foolish to consider this relevant.

https://www.academia.edu/2211986/On_the ... nd_Prefect

Thanks, Andrew. That is indeed a helpful distinction to make. It makes clear both the possibility of more results (such as the no-history answer you mention) as well as the fact that some of the results involve a broader area than others.

I'm impressed with how thoroughly unloved this blog post became. My worst yet.

http://peterkirby.com/mission-impossible.html

Pro-mythical stuff gets ~50 shares, pro-historicity stuff gets ~50 shares, this stuff gets... 2!

They said the same thing about the four-minute mile. Fair enough, but even with an exceptional individual who is able to write what should become a consensus account of Christian origins on account of its proper treatment of the historical evidence, a sequence of historical events that are not at t...

It's kind of amazing how technology has made an ignorant newscaster's opinion relevant to millions of people, in a retrograde kind of way.

The main reason this position will never be popular is that people (either Christians, non-Christians, anti-Christians) are looking for more exciting solutions in relation with their belief, or lack of. Furthermore, this position will never satisfy Christians or anti-Christians. And non-Christians ...