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It wouldn't be the only case of "wait a minute--who copied whom?" if we couldn't solve the caper. Simpler cases with fewer variables go unresolved. One case with relevance to this board is that of Minucius Felix and a very similar apology from Tertullian. Doherty notably assumed the priori...

iskander wrote:Jesus may have been a tzaddik who did not conform.

Maybe, maybe, maybe. Maybe he had a baby that got rabies. Who knows.

maryhelena wrote:It's that old expression, 'boots on the ground', that has the potential to move the debate forward.

I don't know what this means. (I know what the parts mean, but no idea how it's supposed to fit together...)

PS -- the subject line shortening is rather unfortunate!

It is rational to require those asserting the historicity of Jesus to undertake its demonstration as more than a hypothesis, with actual evidence (empirical, fact-based, scientifically sound). In fact, Carrier's hypothesis has flaws and is immune to real falsification, but they all do, and they all ...

... "B-b-b-but we really know that there was a historical Jesus and maybe even a whole lot about him!" ... pffft. you spelt hymn wrong :P http://static2.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/Maps+_4deeca61c271b7e4aa7580ff07ca11ea.jpg Not sure if gender-inclusive language or reference to mythic na...

Posted on Vridar first: http://vridar.org/2015/09/05/framing-the-historicist-mythicist-debate-a-case-study/ Other controversial ideas have the benefit of being in realms of scientific inquiry. Evolution, which was viciously attacked for decades and still is in some quarters, has the benefit of being...

I read it daily. btw Is the forum banned from the site? :mrgreen: Good question! Posts / threads from the forum seemed to stop being picked up about 5 days ago. Not really sure why. Seems that websites with lots of moving parts like this require maintenance... (Made slightly more difficult due to d...

Pilate appears in the Gospel of Mark and in the Gospel of Matthew. At first blush this could work on a theory that neither of them represent the earliest synoptic story, but... All three synoptics and the Gospel of John and the Gospel of Peter structure Pilate into the execution prominently. So the ...

An academic connected with the project could apply for a grant in the United Kingdom to further the work... no?

Perhaps it could still cost more than a grant would provide, but that'd seem to be the place to start (along with a cost estimate).

It may be instructive to look at new religious movements closer in time to our own. Mormonism for example started less than two hundred years ago and reports some 16,000,000 members. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soka_Gakkai The movement was founded by educators Makiguchi and Toda in 1930, but not f...