I have compiled the ten posts reviewing Raphael Lataster’s Questioning the Historicity of Jesus into a single PDF file and made it available to anyone interested through Dropbox.
I am looking forward to reviewing next, engaging in similar depth, M. David Litwa’s How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths.
There are several other works in my “to do” basket. One task at a time.
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Great work Neil. You may be interested in the discussion on mythicism with both Robert M Price and Joe Atwill. Please take this as a goodwill gesture even though I think we agree to disagree on my view, there was indeed at the turn of BCE/AD a formidable, extensive and enduring threat to Roman hegemony by the Jewish religion from which it is reasonable to allow the hypothesis of Roman provenance of the Gospels.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfXhUJ2fdwE
Like a believer giving a bible to an atheist as a goodwill gesture!! 😉
Litwa is interviewed about his book at some length on the New Books Network Biblical studies podcast 19 August.
Which can be accessed @ https://newbooksnetwork.com/m-david-litwa-how-the-gospels-became-history-jesus-and-mediterranean-myths-yale-up-2019/
Please consider an article on Adamczewski’s 2014 commentary on Mark:
• Adamczewski, Bartosz (2014). The Gospel of Mark: A Hypertextual Commentary. Peter Lang Edition. ISBN 978-3-631-64715-8.
Lataster, Raphael (2019). Questioning the Historicity of Jesus: Why a Philosophical Analysis Elucidates the Historical Discourse. BRILL. p. 257. ISBN 9789004408784.
• Adamczewski, Bartosz (2013). Hypertextuality and Historicity in the Gospels. Peter Lang. ISBN 9783631628980.
Cf. Godfrey, Neil (9 February 2019). “The Problem of the Reconstruction of the Life, Deeds, Words of Jesus”. Vridar.
Cf. Paschke, Boris (2017). “Hypertextuality and Historicity in the Gospels, written by Adamczewski, Bartosz”. Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus. 15 (2–3): 347–349. doi:10.1163/17455197-01502010.
It will be a while before I do that. I have certain critical difficulties with Adamczewski’s work.