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Blogged a bit here:

http://peterkirby.com/two-can-play-that-game.html

Tom Verenna has a better post directly against Atwill:

http://tomverenna.wordpress.com/2013/10 ... ent-jesus/

If you follow all the pingbacks, you can find a few more discussions.

Thanks for the encouragement, Avi. It's hard going. Been to the library today to look at some of E.'s sources. There will be more sections of the review. I shall try to keep it positive and constructive. Great big overstuffed pudding of a book, tho. Thanks for your review thus far; it's always good...

No shortage of examples. There's a discussion taking place in the blogosphere here. Anything and everything will be said against the non-historicity of Jesus, short of taking the time to make a real argument for the historicity of Jesus.

I suffer from a deep reluctance to spend my time refuting what nobody believes. That some damn fool convinces himself of something silly, and then insists on repeating it endlessly, does not mean that I have any duty to spend any of the little time that we have on this world in giving him an educat...

http://peterkirby.com/mapping-the-langu ... mpire.html

Some maps that are helpful for understanding the general use of Latin, Greek, and regional languages in the Roman Empire.

It's a good question. Commentaries say that "spiritually Sodom and Egypt" is meant to refer to Jerusalem, but it doesn't have to be taken that way.

David C. Hindley has scanned the Latin text of Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, which needs to be proofread. On his behalf, I am looking for volunteers to do the proofreading. If you'd like to help, let me know by reply here or by e-mail (peterkirby@gmail.com). Thank you.

Edmund Standing badly wants to refute the "position we have no adequate reason to believe that the gospels refer to a historical figure called Jesus at all." http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2009/against-mythicism-a-case-for-the-plausibility-of-a-historical-jesus/ What he ends up doing ...

I have floated the question of what arguments there are against the Historicity of Jesus over on JesusMysteries , the Yahoo! group, and I am indebted to the responses there for some more points of argument. (9) Roger Parvus argues for a modified hypothesis where Jesus descends to earth briefly, as l...

I just purchased Robert Eisenman's James the brother of Jesus; and it appears he writes to a more knowledgeable group of fellow bible scholars (feeling he must prove every point); and after just arriving at chapter 7 of this two inch thick monster; I wish he would turn it over to Bart Ehrman, to br...