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I was not intending on playing a game of semantics. Instead, I was hoping that one of Carrier's sycophants would take the bait and apply Carrier's version of Bayes' Theorem on probability. From there I was going to use it as an example to show how reliable/unreliable Carrier's version of Bayes Theor...

Glad you have a pointless analogy to share, :goodmorning: by all means, keep attacking scholars you've never read :lol: . In the meantime, I'll reread Dykstra's intertextual study on Mark and the Paulines and Brodie's thesis of the NT authors rewriting the Elija-Elisha narrative for this very impor...

This reminds me of the book; " The Jesus Mysteries : Was the "original Jesus" a Pagan God? " by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy." I was challenged to watch a video documentary on gnosticism which had a segment where Freke and Gandy laid out their augments from their book. It w...

lol, now watch as John T never reads a Brodie or Dykstra book yet goes on the attack. :popcorn: Can you give me a good reason to read one? Once again you mock me but you just can't seem to provide any evidence to justify your faith in Brodie or Dykstra. Perhaps it is because you haven't read their ...

Dykstra is no fan of a historical Jesus. Thus we should not be surprised that he belittles Ehrman while praising Brodie. After all Brodie praises Dykstra books so why not return the favor? One hand washes the other. "This book [Did Jesus Exsist?] stresses "criteria for historicity" bu...

During a (1999) documentary about the Dead Sea Scrolls, Dr. Adolfo Roitman, Director, Shrine of the Book, speculates (5 minute mark) that Jesus may have personally known some of the members that wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e. Essene. https://youtu.be/wneSV0FOsMA For me that would be highly probabl...

so is this the new John T thread where he attacks Carrier without having read any of his books? No. It is the same JohnT that after reading Carrier's blogs and watching hours upon hours of his lectures knows that Carrier has a problem with telling the truth to his audience. It is called fact checki...

Ehrman does indeed use clarity in context of source , evident by the footnotes of every book he writes. Likewise, (unlike Bordie) Bart takes great pains in explaining how/why he lost his faith and it is not due to historical-criticism. Jesus, Interrupted : "I came to think of the Christian mess...

Well, it looks like Carrier is at it again. Carrier has done a review of Ehrman's latest book; " How Jesus Became God ". Carrier gives several back handed compliments before he proceeds to thoroughly trash it. To Carrier's credit, at least this time he took the time to actually read the b...

Peter Kirby wrote:Guess nobody cares if you go after Bill O'Reilly.

On the other hand, putting the Pericope de Adultera in a so-called "historical movie" is a bit funny.

They would care if O'Reilly went after your buddy Richard Carrier, then all heck would break out.