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I keep saying I won't get bogged down trying to defend Carrier, but I can't help but wonder what you mean by saying his explanation of Josephus not really ever mentioning Jesus to be convoluted? Carrier says the passage where Josephus mentions James's execution originally referred to another Jesus,...

There was a time when I was somewhat open to the idea that Jesus did not exist, but the more I looked into it, the more I realized it fails Occam's Razor. In addition to the evidence of Paul, we have Josephus, who wasn't even a Christian. And while one of the two mentions of Jesus in his works is co...

Whose life would we need to verify in order to fulfill the burden of the claim? Some random Jewish guy named Jesus? Or some random Jewish guy named Jesus who had a mother named Mary, who was a virgin at the time of his birth, a guy who spit upon a deaf and blind person to heal them and was killed b...

It's funny how Gee's apologetic efforts, and his corresponding attacks on Ritner, have consistently backfired. Ritner has done some brilliant Egyptological work, but very little of it is aimed at the general public. Therefore, Ritner's greatest fame outside the Egyptological community, modest though...

Apologies if I'm butting in — and I certainly don't mean to speak for Philo — but this topic brings to mind a blog post by a biblical scholar that I read a few years ago: Just like clockwork, conservatives inevitably celebrate Martin Luther King Day by attempting to claim him as one of their own. (T...