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The Carrier-Ehrman Controversy 6: Points on Pliny

It is always a bad sign in an academic dispute when one side resorts to criticizing irrelevant minutiae without having anything substantial to say to the actual core of their opponents’ thesis. As one works through the replies of Richard Carrier to Bart Ehrman, much of his objections are of this variety. That is, he [...]

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The Ehrman-Carrier Contoversy 5: Earl Doherty and His Sources

One supposes that after defending Acharya S, Carrier could not help but come to the aid of Earl Doherty. Ehrman had criticized Doherty for the way the latter used source material and Carrier responded with much righteous indignation: Ehrman says Earl Doherty “quotes professional scholars at length when their views prove useful for developing aspects [...]

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What’s a William Lane Craig?

I have in the past posted on the issue of internet atheists and William Lane Craig. Recently another round of Craig-bashing from the Youtube user Thunderf00t prompted responses from many Christians on Youtube. I added my own contribution today on my Youtube channel and will present my analysis here as well. The ridiculous argument by [...]

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The Ehrman-Carrier Controversy 4: Beaten by a Nose

If there is one thing that Bart Ehrman and Richard Carrier agree upon, it is that The Christ Conspiracy by Acharya S is an absolutely awful book. In fact, a bone of contention, as mentioned in the last post in this series, is that Ehrman said it was awful, gave a few examples of why [...]

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Questionable Sources: Godfrey Higgins

Godfrey Higgins was a nineteenth century Freemason who authored some of the most bizarre gibberish ever foisted upon an unsuspecting public. Living at a time when Orientalism was becoming important as a movement, Higgins fashioned himself an expert on all things religious, linguistic, and historical despite being manifestly unqualified on all counts. His magnum opus [...]

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The Ehrman-Carrier Controversy 3: Good and Bad Mythicists

One of the strangest areas of the exchange between Bart Ehrman and Richard Carrier revolves around Ehrman’s curt dismissal of figures such as D. M. Murdock (aka “Acharya S”) and the duo of Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy. In his initial review, Carrier seems agitated that Ehrman did not spend more time on their type [...]

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The Ehrman-Carrier Controversy 2: The General Tone

When viewing the treatment of Bart Ehrman and Richard Carrier, one thing stands out: Ehrman was far more civil to Carrier than the latter was to Ehrman – a rather strange turn of events considering the professional record of accomplishments is completely one-sided in Ehrman’s favor. Yet this is sort of behavior is not unusual [...]

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The Ehrman-Carrier Controversy 1: General Remarks

April 30, 2012 2 comments

With the web abuzz with the warring posts of Bart Ehrman and Richard Carrier, and with Ehrman’s already stated purpose not to engage Carrier and his confused minions of Jesus mythicisim further, it might be a good time to examine the fallout of this exchange. I obviously agree with Ehrman (and almost every scholar on [...]

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Questionable Sources: Barbara G. Walker

April 27, 2012 No comments

Among some supporters of “pagan parallels” for Christianity, one will occasionally find the name of Barbara G. Walker and her Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. Walker seems especially popular among conspiracy theorists with feminist sympathies who cling to the long discredited thesis of an early wordwide matriarchal culture. Such fantasies as well as Walker’s [...]

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James as “Brother of the Lord”

April 26, 2012 1 comment

The reference in Galations 1:19 to James as “the Lord’s brother” (or, equivalently, “the brother of the Lord”) has long been the subject of debate. The division had long been with most Protestants insisting James was a biological son of Joseph and Mary while Catholic, Orthodox. and some Protestants saw another kind of kinship between [...]

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