The following is copied with permission from THE SECOND WAVE OF THE NEW ATHEISM A Manifesto for Secular Scriptural Scholarship and Religious Studies This Manifesto was initiated in the summer of 2015 by Hector Avalos and André Gagné. Please contact the authors if you wish to add your signature. Hector Avalos Iowa State University Ames, Iowa HectorAvalos@aol.com André … Continue reading “THE SECOND WAVE OF THE NEW ATHEISM: A Manifesto for Secular Scriptural Scholarship and Religious Studies”
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The citations refer to the previous two interview posts. Miami is the first one with David Fitzgerald; Logicast is Daniel’s follow up podcast. The time references match the preceding time marker in each of the two posts. So [Logicast, 49:00] means that the source for my statement can be found by beginning to read from the … Continue reading “Framing the Historicist-Mythicist Debate: A Case Study”
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If you’re as sick of the Jesus Mythicist/Historicist debate as Daniel Gullotta and I are, you’ll want to hear us on August 24th as we have the Last Great “Did Jesus Exist?” Debate EVER! — David Fitzgerald, Facebook, 14th August 2015 Daniel Gullotta has more info about this on his blog. There he adds The show … Continue reading “If you’re as sick of the Jesus Mythicist/Historicist debate as I am . . .”
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An unexplained or unjustified phrase that I encounter with depressing regularity in works of Biblical scholars is “so and so’s argument does not convince” or “is not persuasive” — and the various equivalents of these, of course. This blot is too often found even in what can be the most informative of academic works. Of … Continue reading “But WHY Does It Not Convince?”
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Happily for at least a couple of scholars* Matthew Baldwin has posted on his blog eschata an argument that Richard Carrier’s case against the historicity of Jesus is flawed at its very foundations. His post is A Short Note on Carrier’s “Minimal Historicism”. I would be happily surprised, however, if I ever see a scholar … Continue reading “Problems Accepting Carrier’s Argument”
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Following are some general thoughts about a negative side of biblical scholarship. Each point needs unpacking in order to justify itself. But for now I’m just having a bit of a lament concerning the overview. In the midst of an abundance of solid scholarship that I thoroughly enjoy and that I like to share when I … Continue reading “Defensive Postures of Biblical Scholarship”
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No scholar employed by a major university doubts Jesus existed. One sometimes reads a claim like this by a theologian or bible scholar although generally they will more modestly say only that no scholar employed by a theology or biblical studies department holds this view. How should we evaluate such a claim? The intention behind the claim is to … Continue reading “All Bible Scholars Agree . . . (so what?)”
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Who is Daniel Gullotta? Background info here: “Daniel N. Gullotta is a budding New Testament scholar and early Christian historian committed to the secular study of ancient religion. Daniel describes himself as a friendly agnostic-atheist with humanist values, but with a deep love and obsession with the Bible.” Daniel N. Gullotta is not a mythicist. He … Continue reading ““Why You Should Take Richard Carrier Seriously””
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In my previous post I made the following note: Daniel Gullotta has a more conventional background and approach and recently reviewed Robert Price’s latest volume, Review: The Historical Bejeezus: What a Long, Strange Quest It’s Been. He gives 2 out of 5 stars. Daniel Gullotta expresses his disappointment over Price giving as much space as he does to … Continue reading “Robert Price’s New Book: A Comment”
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Time to catch up here with blog posts that have appeared in recent weeks addressing mythicism. There’s now a blog devoted to mythicism: The Mythicism Files. A good many of its articles look like good future reference material. I was worried at first by the the apparently large space that appeared to be devoted to Acharya … Continue reading “What they’re saying about Mythicism”
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On this page are links to archives of posts treated in special depth. In Depth Archives The Kennedy Assassination, Interview: Billionaire Logic and the Death of JFK Historical Methods (with reference to the study of Christian Origins/Historicity of Jesus) Book of Revelation — Annotated List of Posts Nazareth Death and … Continue reading “ARCHIVES by TOPIC, Annotated (Updated 2 March 23)”
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