A Professor on His Mythicist Former Student

A Professor on His Mythicist Former Student

John Dickson writes in response to Raphael Latasterโ€™s recent article:

As his former lecturer, I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that Raphaelโ€™s 1000 words on Jesus would not receive a pass mark in any history class I can imagine, even if it were meant to be a mere โ€œpersonal reflectionโ€ on contemporary Jesus scholarship. Lataster is a better student than his piece suggests. But the rigours of academia in general โ€“ and the discipline of history, in particular โ€“ demand that his numerous misrepresentations of scholarship would leave a marker little choice but to fail him.

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