Via Mark Goodacre, who suggested the resemblance to Jesus mythicism (and warned of the expletive):
The Ouzo Prophecy
June 3, 2011 By 11 Comments
I presume that professors in most fields get e-mails and/or packages with manuscripts from people who are sure they have incredible insights into this, that, or the other. Today I received an e-mail sharing a link to “The Ouzo Prophecy” and I thought I would share it, because it is just so amusing. The funniest [...]
Chapter 7 of Earl Doherty’s Jesus: Neither God Nor Man
June 2, 2011 By 444 Comments
Chapter 7 of Earl Doherty’s book Jesus: Neither God Nor Man turns attention to other characters in the Gospels and events that are not mentioned about them in the epistles: Judas’ betrayal and Peter’s denial, for starters. Presumably the first thing to note it that the latter completely undermines Doherty’s argument. Paul refers to encounters [...]
Brad Matthies Among The Truthers
May 31, 2011 By 6 Comments
My colleague Brad Matthies has posted a review of the interesting-sounding book Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground by Jonathan Kay. For the record, he’s the one who connected that book’s focus with mythicism, not me.
Ari Dives Into The Abhorrent Mythicist Void
May 30, 2011 By 18 Comments
Over at Ari’s Blog of Awesome, there is a post reviewing Robert Price’s contribution to the volume Sources of the Jesus Tradition: Separating History from Myth. Ari describes it as “one of the most frustrating essays” in the volume, and having previously reviewed a chapter Price wrote for another volume, I am not surprised. Still [...]
In Mythicism but not of Mythicism
May 29, 2011 By 17 Comments
It is perhaps ironic that there is a well-worn conservative Christian phrase, of Biblical derivation, which illustrates wonderfully a point that Earl Doherty and Neil Godfrey either are missing themselves, or are fully aware of but hope that their readers will miss, namely that in and of are not universally interchangeable or synonymous. There are [...]
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