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by stevencarrwork
Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:48 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Craig Evans talking about Wallace's mummy mask Mark fragment
Replies: 43
Views: 37344

Re: Craig Evans talking about Wallace's mummy mask Mark frag

Evans sent Ehrman a few paragraphs trying to defend the destruction of the masks (something Ehrman has been quite critical of). Ehrman (with Evans' permission) posted it on his blog. Worth a read. Says it won't be published for a few more years and hints that they may have discovered some more 2nd ...
by stevencarrwork
Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:49 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: "A Narrative Anomaly in Josephus" by Paul J. Hopper
Replies: 7
Views: 14075

Re: "A Narrative Anomaly in Josephus" by Paul J. Hopper

steve43 wrote:How does he handle the James, the brother of Jesus, passage in Book 20?
Is that the one which refers back to the passage in Book 18?
by stevencarrwork
Fri Dec 26, 2014 12:19 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Carrier vs. Rent-an-Apologist on Historicity of Jesus
Replies: 46
Views: 31077

Re: Carrier vs. Rent-an-Apologist on Historicity of Jesus

What does that have to do with my statement? Since all Christian literature post-dates the alleged life of Jesus it's fallacious to object to the Ascension of Isaiah on that grounds and a non-sequitur to call it "dishonest" unless Carrier is actually lying about the dates (something which...
by stevencarrwork
Thu Dec 25, 2014 1:43 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Carrier vs. Rent-an-Apologist on Historicity of Jesus
Replies: 46
Views: 31077

Re: Carrier vs. Rent-an-Apologist on Historicity of Jesus

Horn has pegged carrier as a liar right from the beginning. [using sources dated later then the origins of the movement] If this is true, then Carrier has no credibility what so ever. edit Carrier tries to dig himself out of the dishonesty hole he dug, but im not convinced by his explanation of Asc...
by stevencarrwork
Wed Dec 24, 2014 4:11 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Rank, Raglan, Freud, a Texas Sharpshooter, and Jesus
Replies: 126
Views: 118765

Re: Rank, Raglan, Freud, a Texas Sharpshooter, and Jesus

MCGRATH Its folklorist users show little or no interest in the attempt to do what historians do, namely peeling back layers of myth in search of underlying history, if there is any. CARR Is that what historians do? I always wondered what they spend their time on. Turns out they can penetrate layers ...
by stevencarrwork
Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:26 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Carrier vs. Rent-an-Apologist on Historicity of Jesus
Replies: 46
Views: 31077

Re: Carrier vs. Rent-an-Apologist on Historicity of Jesus

Horn has pegged carrier as a liar right from the beginning. [using sources dated later then the origins of the movement] If this is true, then Carrier has no credibility what so ever. edit Carrier tries to dig himself out of the dishonesty hole he dug, but im not convinced by his explanation of Asc...
by stevencarrwork
Wed Dec 10, 2014 11:41 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: New Fragment of Mark! Dated 1st century!
Replies: 44
Views: 33052

Re: New Fragment of Mark! Dated 1st century!

http://michaelwholmes.com/posts-and-comments-2/ An excellent, scholarly article. The Executive Director of the GSI makes clear his reasons for not telling anybody a single word from this manuscript. We have to be sure of the dating. Is it really a canonical document? Does it really date from the 1s...
by stevencarrwork
Sun Dec 07, 2014 2:11 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Carrier and the silence in Paul and early epistles
Replies: 100
Views: 70958

Re: Carrier and the silence in Paul and early epistles

Doesn't Carrier quote some historicist scholars also claiming that the silence in Paul is something which needs explanation?

Other scholars don't just say 'Nothing to see here, move along please'. They also express some surprise that Paul does not let slip details of anything Jesus said or did.
by stevencarrwork
Thu Nov 13, 2014 2:44 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: How mythicists are perceived by students and academics
Replies: 90
Views: 80612

Re: How mythicists are perceived by students and academics

steve43 wrote:The author of Luke/Acts was in Rome at the SAME time as the young Josephus was.

So there is your explanation.

Check it out. A.D. 63 or thereabouts.
And , using his time machine, he employed some of the phrases and details that the young Josephus was going to make famous 30 years later.
by stevencarrwork
Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:10 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: How mythicists are perceived by students and academics
Replies: 90
Views: 80612

Re: How mythicists are perceived by students and academics

You have to beat the champ to be the champ. Take ACTS as an example. There in NOTHING intrinsic to ACTS that suggests it was written at any other time than the mid-sixties A.D. Apart from it appearing to use Josephus as a source? When do most 'champs' date Acts? I guess most histories of WW2 were w...