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Given the interest generated by Maurice Casey\u2019s book and Richard Carrier\u2019s blogging about it<\/a>, I thought I should turn my 2013 SBL conference paper on mythicism and academic freedom into an article quickly. And so I am pleased to say that \u201cMythicism and the Mainstream: The Rhetoric and Realities of Academic Freedom\u201d is now available on the Bible and Interpretation<\/em> website<\/a>. It focuses mainly on the broader question and on the specific example of Thomas Brodie\u2019s work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In other news, Dustin Martyr has the latest installment from his interview with me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"