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Alsan on his book about Jesus 31 Jul 2013 | 08:17 am
Until recently I had always understood Aslan was the lion from The Chronicles of Narnia series. (He was also a not overly subtle cypher for Jesus in C.S. Lewis’s novels.) But I don’t live in America s...
The Gospel of Mark As a Fulfilment of Isaiah’s New Exodus 29 Jul 2013 | 05:15 pm
Rikki Watts presents a very thorough argument in Isaiah’s New Exodus in Mark (1997) that the major themes, structure, and narrative details in the Gospel of Mark were drawn directly from the Book of I...
Jan Vansina and the Criterion of Embarrassment 29 Jul 2013 | 03:20 am
Insults and a failure to comprehend Awhile back our favorite historicist doctor posted a comment on his own blog: One can see a similar mythicist combination of insult and failure to comprehend those ...
Blood and Water: What Is the Function of John 19:34? 27 Jul 2013 | 03:53 am
A shock to the system 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood a...
Making of a Mythicist, Act 3, Scene 1 (Too Strange!) 19 Jul 2013 | 06:35 pm
Continuing Thomas Brodie’s Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery Part III The Third Revolution: Literary Art, Including Form/Genre Becoming aware of how biblical writers red...
Real Historians Do Bayes! 18 Jul 2013 | 04:05 pm
How do historians, comparative linguists, biblical and textual critics, and evolutionary biologists establish beliefs about the past? How do they know the past? That’s the subject of Aviezer Tucker‘s ...
Joel Watts Fails to Defend His DMCA Takedown Application Against Vridar 17 Jul 2013 | 04:48 pm
Today I received notice from WordPress that I was free to restore to public access my blog post in which I exposed Joel Watts as an incompetent scholar and lazy fool with respect to his efforts to arg...
Brodie’s Mythicist Case: The Facts 16 Jul 2013 | 02:50 pm
Updated with additional conclusion 17th July Thomas Brodie argues that the Gospel accounts of Jesus, both his deeds and teachings, are like other literature of the era insofar as they are creative re-...
Making of a Mythicist, Act 2, Scene 3 (“That is an important thesis”) 14 Jul 2013 | 04:18 pm
The theme of Act 2 is how Brodie learned that the biblical writers found much of their material in literary sources. In 1980 Brodie met Joseph Fitzmyer in Washington, DC, and asked him to comment on a...
Joel Watts Responds to Being Caught Out Liking a Mythicist’s Work 13 Jul 2013 | 03:06 pm
Updated about 90 minutes after original posting. Joel Watts, I am very happy to say, has for the first time ever addressed me in a civil tone. His first words to me were two years ago and are on recor...
