Mythicism as Selectively Critical: The Example of Couchoud’s Treatment of John the Baptist

January 29, 2012 By 36 Comments

That mythicism is selectively critical, and selectively applies rigorous skepticism to sources, is easy to illustrate. Take  Couchoud’s treatment of John the Baptist as summarized in a recent post on the blog Vridar. There is no skepticism expressed about the words and views attributed to John the Baptist in the New Testament, no suggestion that [...]

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Neil Godfrey on Paul-Louis Couchoud

December 29, 2011 By 46 Comments

Paul-Louis Couchoud has something in common with other mythicists: he was not a historian. But Couchoud also has something in common with the kinds of mythicists that could, at one point, be taken seriously: he died more than half a century ago. He thus formulated his ideas and wrote about them before the Dead Sea [...]

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