Brodie\u2019s book start[s] to make the mythicist\u2019s case look less tenable. Each new dramatic parallel that is brought forward shows how easy it is to make differing cases, and well, as you say, is parallelomania\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The very fact that some mythicists have been able to claim that the New Testament is entirely based on pagan myths, while others have been able to claim that it is entirely based on stories in Jewish Scripture, shows that people who want to find precursors will do so, and will find diverse and even mutually exclusive ones. So mainstream historical scholars will look forward to Brodie further illustrating this problematic aspect of the alleged case for mythicism.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first of the additional nails that are coming soon is Maurice Casey\u2019s forthcoming book,\u00a0Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?\u00a0I\u2019ve known for some time that Casey had a book in the works addressing mythicist claims directly and in detail, and am delighted that its publication is now imminent, as Jim West and Joseph Hoffmann […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,64,67],"tags":[4646,4660,5677,7155,7853,8709,8711,12543],"class_list":["post-8854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-jesus","category-mythicism","category-new-testament-bible","tag-historical","tag-history","tag-jesus","tag-maurice-casey","tag-mythicism","tag-parallelomania","tag-parallels","tag-thomas-brodie"],"yoast_head":"\n
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