{"id":26925,"date":"2014-10-29T12:34:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=26925"},"modified":"2014-10-29T12:34:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T16:34:31","slug":"did-jesus-die-in-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/10\/did-jesus-die-in-outer-space.html","title":{"rendered":"Did Jesus Die in Outer Space?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Over the past several weeks I\u2019ve been reading Richard Carrier\u2019s book, On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, which\u00a0The Bible and Interpretation<\/em> kindly sent me a copy of, asking me to provide them with a review.<\/p>\n

It soon became clear to me that a single review with an overview of the book, however useful, would inevitably fail to do justice to the many important details, worthy of detailed discussion in their own right.<\/p>\n

To that end, I wrote the first of what I hope will be a series<\/em> of review articles for\u00a0The Bible and Interpretation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>That article is called \u201cDid Jesus Die in Outer Space? Evaluating a Key Claim in Richard Carrier\u2019s On the Historicity of Jesus<\/em>.\u201d<\/a> Please click through<\/a> to read it, and then discuss it in comments on\u00a0The Bible and Interpretation<\/em> website, or here, or both.<\/p>\n

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