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It has been a while since I have blogged about mythicism. But several mythicism-related blog posts have appeared over the past day or so. I will start with the most entertaining. Rene Salm managed to get a paper accepted at SBL, and not only has he shared his paper online, but at the blog Vridar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,88],"tags":[1023,1024,7853,7854,7856,7949,7999,10209,10359,10835,11511,12543,13480],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mythicism","category-society-of-biblical-literature","tag-bart-d-ehrman","tag-bart-ehrman","tag-mythicism","tag-mythicist","tag-mythicists","tag-nazareth","tag-neil-godfrey","tag-rene-salm","tag-richard-carrier","tag-sbl","tag-society-of-biblical-literature","tag-thomas-brodie","tag-vridar"],"yoast_head":"\n
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