Regular readers of Exploring Our Matrix know that one of the topics I have been blogging about for some time is mythicism – the viewpoint that Jesus is more likely to be a purely fictional figure invented more-or-less from scratch based on earlier mythical figures and texts, than to be a historical figure around whom myths and legends subsequently developed. It is not a viewpoint that historians and scholars find persuasive, and since the agreement of experts often fails to mitigate the spread of ill-founded ideas on the internet, I’ve devoted a fair amount of time to explaining why almost no one who knows anything about how historical scholarship works, or takes the time to be well informed about ancient Judaism and/or the New Testament, finds the claims of mythicists to represent scholarship of any sort, much less persuasive scholarship.
Beginning Blogging Earl Doherty’s Book, Jesus: Neither God Nor Man
The Introduction to Earl Doherty’s Book Jesus: Neither God Nor Man
If Your Claims Are Unpersuasive, Is It My Fault?
Dealing Appropriately with Pseudoscholarship
Very shortly I will pick up where I left off. with part two.
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