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If you want to see people snapped like a twig, try scripted professional wrestling. Actually, that is a very good, (and much less prejudicial) metaphor than I was able to come up with. Carrier *is* doing professional wrestling when he is debating. He *wants* to snap you like a twig, and that's what...

If somebody wants to convince me that Mark came after Matthew, they are going to have to explain to me why they would cut out the Sermon on the Mount. *Especially* as it is in Matthew. It's one of the earliest and still best exposition of a radically new system of ethics which absolutely reconfigure...

Are you suggesting that the photographs published by Morton Smith are photographs of a different document than the document photographed years later to produce the photographs examined by Agamemnon Tselikas ? ?? how did you get that from what I wrote ?? Of course not. I'm just saying Morton Smith s...

If you want to see people snapped like a twig, try scripted professional wrestling. Actually, that is a very good, (and much less prejudicial) metaphor than I was able to come up with. Carrier *is* doing professional wrestling when he is debating. He *wants* to snap you like a twig, and that's what...

You have persuaded me that the letter in question could plausibly be an Iota, but I am not yet persuaded that it is definitely not a Sigma. Yeah, that's where I'm at too. You can only look at Peter Kirby's sigmas and Ada Kvanta's iotas (er, or was it Peter Kerby's iotas and Adam Kvanta's sigmas?) f...

A ritual death followed by ritual resurrection cult? To this very day the Christian attitude is that the non-believer is dead in his transgressions. You simply don't need to be dead to be dead. Now or then. Perhaps. This business of linen garments going on and coming off is just one of those weird ...

How so? Well, it was a long time ago, so I don't remember specifically.....I just remembered, at the end of the debate, that somebody who spends their entire professional life studying the gospels, trained at and working at the best universities in the world should have left no doubt in my mind whe...

Since it's not 1950 and we're not in kindergarten, let's put away these ad hom arguments. They are beneath the dignity of academic professionals, and --more to the point--ad hom is a fallacious form of argument. They prove nothing. Smith saw the actual document. Agamemnon Tselikas saw photographs. I...

I remember listening to that debate, and wishing that Dr. Goodacre had prepped more for it. It's a common trap: the outsider waves his flag around, plants it in the ground and challenges all comers...... ....and somebody who is an expert in the subject matter--but not an expert in debating--agrees t...

Martijn Linssen rightly pointed out that the pious women in Mark are condemned to silence because only so Mark could explain why the empty tomb story (absent in *Ev) didn't receive the attention that it would have deserved only with the his [of Mark] gospel. That's an interesting hypothesis. I do v...