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In my OP I was asking whether anyone can steer me to academic studies on Nazareth. Nevertheless, I am aware that René Salm has a very pointed rejoinder to recent claims that Hellenistic and early Roman coins have been found at the so-called Nazareth Village Farm: http://www.nazarethmyth.info/scandal...

Hello all, I've seen a lot of argument on websites and blogs over whether Nazareth, Jesus' purported home town, existed in the first century CE. I've tried to look at some scholarly publications but haven't yet been able to get a clear picture. Does anyone know about the "state of the question&...

Has anyone seen this?

http://stevendimattei.com/case-mythists/

Views?

Note: elsewhere, DiMattei rejects the TF and holds that the "Christ" is indeed a literary creation.

You are obviously unfamiliar with the geographical errors if you think the Bethpage and Bethany is the most significant error. Mark has pigs jumping into a lake from 60 miles away (and the lame "region of" apologetic is just ad hoc contrivance which distorts the definition of a Greek word...

Just read Marincola's chapter; good stuff. John Curran, the writer of the Companion 's chapter on Christianity, accepts the gospels and Acts as giving accurate information about the events they purport to describe; no mythicist Curran. The list of contributors says he teaches in Belfast. He must be ...

I know John Marincola. Nice to see him quoted. Great stuff, spin. Makes me want to look into the book, crazed though I am by the number of "Companions" or "Handbooks" out there. Some ancients did apply a critical eye to past writings. For example, Favorinus showed that Polycrates...

Such scholars might argue so: Resonances with the LXX are a problem only under question-begging assumptions. Mark is older than the Mishnah, Talmud, etc., so we cannot use those as evidence for custom or law in first-century Palestine. Therefore we cannot say that Mark errs in these respects. Mark's...

Christian scholars who hold "infallibility" of scripture but who may shy away from calling scripture "inerrant" tend to say that the evangelists report what they learned from witnesses but may organize, even embellish their material to serve rhetorical strategies. So the result i...

Was any archeological dig ever done, and if so, was a report ever issued? I'm curious after my foray into the views of archeologists about the purported tomb of St. Peter underneath the Vatican basilica.

You can get a goodly chunk of Dando-Collins' book by googling it. He discusses the Isis hypothesis on 9-14 and develops it into an extended account on 107-110: http://books.google.com/books?id=6Pu7QWOPrwsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=isis&f=false...