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Johnny Walker responded to a response to a blog post of his about mythicism. If you are experiencing yet another day disrupted by the arctic weather, and are looking for something to read, there\u2019s that. Of related interest: Mauro Pesce shared a book chapter on Academia.edu, \u201cThe Beginning of Historical Research on Jesus in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":17366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4095,4652,4660,7853],"class_list":["post-20372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mythicism","tag-gospel-of-john","tag-historical-jesus","tag-history","tag-mythicism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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