Bart Ehrman also now has a blog: Christianity in Antiquity: The Bart Ehrman Blog.
There are other posts about the book around the blogosphere, The most interesting is probably John Shuck, who got an advance copy of the book and has a review. That’s the first post in a series that is planned as part of a blog tour about the book. There is also a review at The Passive Habit, which I am linking to since it is relevant, even though it disturbingly recommends something by JP Holding! But it deserves a link if for no other reason than this great line: “It won’t deter the hardcore proponents of the [mythicist] hypotheis [sic], but perhaps some readers will be spared acceptance of such a moronic point of view because of Ehrman’s book.”
Also relevant to this topic is Tom Verenna’s review of Richard Carrier’s new book on historical methodology and Bayes’ Theorem, and Mike Kok’s post on Dale Allison’s treatment of the passion narratives, and how Paul’s letters provide evidence for the existence of that story well before the Gospels were written.
UPDATES: Since I originally posted this, a few other blog posts have appeared about this. Tom Verenna shared some agreements, and indicated that he will be posting a much longer list of disagreements on a later occasion. Neil Godfrey’s post provides some indication of how mythicists are reacting to Ehrman’s article and book.
What’s sauce for the creationists is sauce for the Jesus mythicists; Have your doubts and questions, but be humble and don’t assume you know it all, and especially don’t present a fringe viewpoint as a reason for someone else to accept your conclusion.
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