{"id":1813,"date":"2009-12-22T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/diglotting-and-debunking-jesus-mythicism\/"},"modified":"2009-12-22T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T18:52:00","slug":"diglotting-and-debunking-jesus-mythicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/diglotting-and-debunking-jesus-mythicism.html","title":{"rendered":"Diglotting and Debunking Jesus Mythicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Two posts have appeared recently in the biblioblogosphere relating to the viewpoint that Jesus was originally a mythical figure who was later historicized. First, John Loftus offers <a href=\"http:\/\/debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/did-jesus-exist-thinking-about-earl.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">thoughts on Earl Doherty\u2019s views<\/a>. Then, even more recently, Diglotting offered a <a href=\"http:\/\/diglot.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/22\/the-historical-jesus-as-a-myth-by-robert-price\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">recap of Robert Price\u2019s chapter on the subject<\/a> in a recent book, as well as James Dunn\u2019s response. The quotes from Jimmy really sum things up well, with his characteristic\u00a0humor and insight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3231059049870899124?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two posts have appeared recently in the biblioblogosphere relating to the viewpoint that Jesus was originally a mythical figure who was later historicized. First, John Loftus offers thoughts on Earl Doherty\u2019s views. Then, even more recently, Diglotting offered a recap of Robert Price\u2019s chapter on the subject in a recent book, as well as James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Diglotting and Debunking Jesus Mythicism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two posts have appeared recently in the biblioblogosphere relating to the viewpoint that Jesus was originally a mythical figure who was later\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/diglotting-and-debunking-jesus-mythicism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Diglotting and Debunking Jesus Mythicism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two posts have appeared recently in the biblioblogosphere relating to the viewpoint that Jesus was originally a mythical figure who was later\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/diglotting-and-debunking-jesus-mythicism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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