Day: April 28, 2012

Let’s sit down and look at the score sheet. Richard Carrier kicked 11 “errors of fact” at the net of Bart Ehrman’s book Did Jesus Exist?

Carrier says he could have kicked many more but that it was getting dark and the referee told him he had limited time.

Since beginning to write this post I have learned Richard Carrier has posted his own reply to Ehrman. But I have avoided reading his response so as to continue with my own thoughts for my own “review” of Ehrman’s book.

Here are the “errors of fact” Carrier kicked at Ehrman’s book, in order:

1. The Priapus Bronze
2. The Doherty Slander
3. The Pliny Confusion
4. The Pilate Error
5. The “No Records” Debacle
6. The Tacitus Question
7. The “Other Jesus” Conundrum
8. That Dying-and-Rising God Thing
9. The Baptism Blunder
10. The Dying Messiah Question
11. The Matter of Qualifications

Here are the “errors of fact” Ehrman attempted to defend, in order:

1. The Priapus Bronze, or Cocky Peter (Or: “A Cock and Bull Story”) (in a separate post)
2. The Matter of Qualifications
3. The Pilate Error
4. The Tacitus Question
5. The Dying and Rising God
6. The “Other Jesus” Conundrum
7. “No Roman Records”
8. The Doherty “Slander”
9. The Pliny Confusion

That means goalie Ehrman stood there texting on his mobile while two went through uncontested:

1. The Baptism Blunder
2. The Dying Messiah Question

Keep in mind that these “Errors of Fact” in Carrier’s critique of Ehrman’s book are not the only, nor even necessarily the most, serious faults in Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist? But I cannot cover everything in one post so I deal with these before moving on in a future post to the even more significant errors and fallacies of Ehrman’s work. Continue reading “The Facts of the Matter: Carrier 9, Ehrman 1 (my review, part 2)”