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August 2015

August 26, 2015

Finishing my Mythicism Article Series

I have a new article published in The Bible and Interpretation: "Mythicism and the Making of...

August 19, 2015

Mythicism, Creationism, and other Conspiracy Theories

I was made aware of a post by John Anthony Dunne, asking whether there is...

August 14, 2015

Daniel Gullotta to Debate Mythicist David Fitzgerald

Daniel Gullotta shared on his blog that he will be having a debate with mythicist...

August 05, 2015

Anyone Can Publish Anything

Chris Skinner posted on his blog a follow-up to his post about citing online sources,...

July 2015

July 18, 2015

The Criterion of Damage Control

In a conversation about mythicism I had recently, some points came up that I want...

July 15, 2015

Horus Manure

I'm not sure how I missed it, but a few years ago, Catholic apologist Jon...

July 08, 2015

Theoretical Cosmoses and Historical Jesuses

I almost opted for the alternative plural forms of both words in the title of...

July 07, 2015

The Historical Jesus Goes To University

I recently had a mythicist troll ask for evidence that Jesus is taught as a...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Review of Maurice Casey’s Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?

My review of Maurice Casey's book Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? has been published...

June 16, 2015

Pay To Hear Bart Ehrman and Robert Price Debate

Daniel Gulotta drew to my attention that a Kickstarter campaign has been started to raise...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Myths, Messiahs, and Minimalisms

Simon Joseph blogged about the myth of the dying Messiah. He writes: The myth of...

April 03, 2015

A Jesus Agnostic Star Trek Robot

I had to share this cartoon from Evolving Perspectives. It brings together Jesus-mythicism and Star...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

CNN Covers Mythicism

CNN has an article about mythicism. Here's a sample: Crossan...says some Jesus deniers may be...

March 23, 2015

Skepticism of Mythicism

Daniel Gulotta did an interview with Miami Valley Skeptics about mythicism. Not only has he...

March 12, 2015

Richard Carrier at SBL

Simon Joseph has kindly blogged about Richard Carrier's appearance at a regional SBL meeting. Here...

March 10, 2015

Embarrassed by Mythicism/Antievolutionism

Have you ever wondered why the two New Testament scholars to write books directly tackling...

March 09, 2015

To Engage or Not to Engage

I had been meaning to blog for a while about the question of whether it...

March 05, 2015

Richard Carrier at SBL

Richard Carrier posted the following on his blog:The big news is that I’ve been asked...

February 2015

February 17, 2015

Where The Ball Is

Daniel Gulotta recently posted on his blog about the need to take Richard Carrier seriously....

January 2015

January 14, 2015

Identification of Authors in Ancient Literature

A discussion here on this blog brought up the question of whether other ancient works...

January 13, 2015

Bart Ehrman on Jesus Mythicism

Mike Bird shared this video of Bart Ehrman giving a nice succinct response to a...

January 07, 2015

Using Jesus

Newsweek, mythicism, Jesus, the Bible, and web traffic, all in one Coffee With Jesus cartoon,...

January 06, 2015

Jim Davila (and) the Hero

Jim Davila mentioned my article about the Rank-Raglan hero archetype and the historical Jesus. Jim...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

When Bart Ehrman and Mike Bird Agree

Two items related to the existence of a historical Jesus came to my attention today....

December 26, 2014

Article on the Elusive Jesus

Valerie Tarico interviewed me, as well as Raphael Lataster and Neil Godfrey - for an...

December 26, 2014

Are the Gospels Anonymous?

I created a draft post back in October when Michael Barber shared a link to an...

December 24, 2014

A Professor on His Mythicist Former Student

John Dickson writes in response to Raphael Lataster's recent article: As his former lecturer, I...

December 23, 2014

Rankled by Wranglings about Rank-Raglan Rankings

I decided to go with an alliterative title for my second review for Bible and...

December 17, 2014

Horus Tries To Ruin Christmas

This is an excellent bit of satire, aimed at mythicist false claims (especially those which stem from...

December 16, 2014

Mythicists Gain Nothing By Exaggerating

Raphael Lataster has an online article allegedly about the evidence for a historical Jesus. It...

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