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PseudoPaul wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 28, 2023 3:36 pm

The way you're framing this shows a complete lack of understanding of how scholarship works and your interest in your polemical goals as a propagandist.

Alright, thanks for the posturing. if you have a case for historicity, I'm all ears.

Bart Ehrman has never done, or referenced, any peer reviewed work on the subject? The last evaluation of jesus' historicity found in the literature that results in a likely scenario of Jesus living was published in 1923 written by Shirley Jackson-- The Historicity of Jesus: A Criticism of the Conte...

We have a little heap of some pale, gritty stuff. A few people have always claimed that the heap is pure salt. A few people have recently appeared to insist that it's all sand, with no salt at all. Most people, though, have been saying for a long time that the heap is a mixture of salt and sand. Th...

Raglan and Rank do not seem ever to have found even a single case where an initially mythic figure was later assigned specific historic details, fictitiously, in order to make them out, falsely, as having been a real person who really lived, not just somewhere indefinite at some indefinite time, bu...

. Stem, perhaps you could be more specific in what you are looking for as an argument. You dismiss basic presentation such as Ehrman's saying that is not what you are looking for. What are you looking for? I haven’t dismissed Ehrman. I’ve engaged his argument and published work and linked it here f...

It would help a lot to assess the methodology of the mythicists if we could see how well it worked on some other cases in which concrete but fictitious historical details were invented and attributed to superhuman figures of legend or religion. That’s the start of carrier’s case. What do you mean? ...

The quest for the historical Jesus is all about using what evidence we have and applying historical criteria to try to undercover the Jesus of history. Using that process could result in a "Jesus was just invented" conclusion, but for the vast majority of scholars, and for all major New Testament s...

I think I’ve pointed out it’s the opposite of this. Mythicists have worked to produce peer reviewed scholarship. Historicists have not. This tells me you haven't actually seriously investigated this topic Jesus: King of the Jews Paula Fredriksen Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet Dale Allison T...

. My comment was addressed to the narrow issue of the evidentiary value of the parallels. Again, as good Bayesians, we have to ask what we whether we should expect the evidence we see to be different in the two cases: mythologized real person and mythologized non-existent person. In both cases, we ...

The epistles written by Paul that describe these interactions such as in Galatians show that a) the body of disciples existed independent of him and, Where in Paul do we read about “disciples”? He doesn’t use the word or concept. A common problem with these discussions includes assuming Paul intend...