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Over at Ari\u2019s Blog of Awesome, there is a pos<\/a>t reviewing Robert Price\u2019s contribution to the volume Sources of the Jesus Tradition: Separating History from Myth<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/i>. Ari describes it as \u201cone of the most frustrating essays\u201d in the volume, and having previously reviewed a chapter Price wrote for another volume<\/a>, I am not surprised.<\/p>\n

Still trying to decide whether it is worth clicking through<\/a>? Well here is the equivalent of a thousand-word sample, in the form of a pictorial representation of what Ari thinks Price\u2019s arguments amount to: $\"\"$ <\/p>\n

Click through for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"