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In working on an article on an almost entirely unrelated subject, I\u00a0happened across online versions<\/a> of Shirley Case Jackson\u2019s book The Historicity of Jesus<\/a><\/em>. Since I had a request to revisit earlier arguments for mythicism<\/a>, I thought it appropriate to share this\u00a0older response to those arguments.<\/p>\n

And for what it\u2019s worth, that request came from Quixie, whose own post \u201cA case against mythicism (finally)\u201d<\/a> is also worth linking to.<\/p>\n

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In working on an article on an almost entirely unrelated subject, I\u00a0happened across online versions of Shirley Case Jackson\u2019s book The Historicity of Jesus. Since I had a request to revisit earlier arguments for mythicism, I thought it appropriate to share this\u00a0older response to those arguments. 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