[1.] Earl Doherty’s Response to Bart Ehrman’s Case Against Mythicism: Introduction Earl Doherty’s Response to Bart Ehrman’s Case Against Mythicism: Chapter 1 Earl Doherty’s Response to Bart Ehrman’s Case Against Mythicism: Chapters 1-2 Earl Doherty’s Response to Bart Ehrman’s Case Against Mythicism: Chapter 2 continued Earl Doherty’s Response to Bart Ehrman’s Case Against Mythicism: A Roman Trio Earl Doherty’s … Continue reading “Earl Doherty’s response to Bart Ehrman‘s Did Jesus Exist?“
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Bart Ehrman accuses Earl Doherty of being “driven by convenience” and “simply claiming” that a Bible verse that contradicts his thesis “was not actually written by [Paul]”. At the same time Ehrman admits that the particular verse is disputed by many scholars, but then in his ensuing discussion he hides (sic!) from his lay readers … Continue reading “Ehrman hides the facts about Doherty’s argument: Part 1”
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Until I can get time to do my own reading and comments on Bart Ehrman’s “new book”© I invite anyone who has not yet checked it out to visit the Freeratio discussion board and enjoy the discussion there. Bart Ehrman himself has made an appearance, though a none too auspicious one. He apparently attempted to … Continue reading “Bart Ehrman’s New Book: Did Steven Carr’s Prophecies Come True?”
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Turning to a genuine work of scholarship in biblical studies, even one 80 years old, can be such relief after enduring time in search of a stimulating and challenging argument among so much contemporary theological debate with apologetics always lurking in the subtext. One theologian has scoffed at mythicism by glibly asserting that no-one would … Continue reading “Would the historical Jesus of Nazareth really have been named Jesus of Nazareth?”
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This continues my series on Paul-Louis Couchoud‘s The Creation of Christ. Full set of posts are archived at Couchoud: Creation of Christ. The previous post was Couchoud’s discussion of view of Christ as a mystical and heavenly being according to early Christian literature, and how in the Epistle of the Hebrews we encounter the first … Continue reading “Christ Descends to Earth: Marcion’s contributions to Christianity (Couchoud continued)”
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Dr McGrath’s “reviews” (sic) of Earl Doherty’s book are what you get when a reviewer has made up his mind beforehand that he is going to read nothing but nonsense — except for any tidbits that happen to be repeats of mainstream scholarly views anyway — written by an ignorant charlatan whom he (the reviewer) … Continue reading “Concluding my response to Dr McGrath’s “review” (sic) of chapter 10 part 2″
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It’s worth quoting a few passages from Thomas L. Thompson‘s The Mythic Past (aka The Bible in History). I believe they have a relevance that extends beyond the Old Testament. Naively realistic questions about historicity have always been most out of place when it has come to Israel’s origins — if only for the fact … Continue reading “Confusing stories with historical evidence”
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Five different ways if you count the Gospel of Peter but few of us know much about that Gospel so I’ll restrict myself to what we find in those burning candles of spiritual wisdom drawn out from the dark Orient by the iron tongs of Rome — the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark. Luke … Continue reading “Why Christ rose from the dead in four different ways”
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This post follows on from my earlier post on The Secret Book of John, possibly a Jewish pre-Christian work, as translated and annotated by Stevan Davies. Stevan Davies’ translation of the Secret Book/Apocryphon of John is available online at The Gnostic Society Library. The Prologue is said to be a Christian addition to an earlier … Continue reading “The Gnostic Gospel (Apocryphon) of John – 2”
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Following from The Hellenistic-Hebrew division in Acts – 1 . . . . Stephen makes a most awkward fit into the narrative that follows Acts 6:1-7 when we try to make sense of the account as history. There are two options that I see: Either the author of Acts is attempting to weave a narrative … Continue reading “Stephen — The Hellenistic-Hebrew division in the Jerusalem church – 2”
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10th and final post in the series by Roger Parvus. The complete series is archived here. In posts one through five I showed why Peregrinus should be regarded as the author of the so-called Ignatian letters. In posts six through nine I argued that he was an Apellean Christian. In this post I will tie … Continue reading “[10] THE LETTERS SUPPOSEDLY WRITTEN BY IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH: 10th and final post in the series”
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8th post in the series by Roger Parvus. The complete series is archived here. When I presented my first contention—that the real author of the Ignatians was Peregrinus—I argued that a proto-Catholic editor/interpolator later, probably around 200 CE, made changes to the letters to disguise Peregrinus’ authorship. To make the letters acceptable for use by … Continue reading “[8] THE LETTERS SUPPOSEDLY WRITTEN BY IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH: 8th post in the series”
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I am posting this (posts found on Dr McGrath’s ExploringOurMatrix blog) here solely for the sake of having what I consider to be significant blog exchanges involving Earl Doherty in the one place. (If I miss anything that others think should be collated in the one site then do let me know.) Dr McGrath responded … Continue reading “The Earl Doherty — James McGrath discussion continued”
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7th post in the series by Roger Parvus. The complete series is archived here. In my previous post I called attention to the assortment of unusual beliefs held by the author of the so-called Ignatian letters. That assortment and the description of his Judaizing and docetic opponents have convinced me that he was a follower … Continue reading “[7] THE LETTERS SUPPOSEDLY WRITTEN BY IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH: 7th post in the series”
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