Raphael Lataster book 'Jesus Did Not Exist' Nov 2015

[MrMacSon]

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Jesus Did Not Exist: A Debate Among Atheists
by Raphael Lataster (Author), Richard Carrier (Editor)

• File Size: 999 KB
  Print Length: 456 pages
  Publication Date: November 12, 2015
  Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  Language: English
  ASIN: B017YB4D82
  Text-to-Speech: Enabled

• "For a lay audience, and with help from historian Richard Carrier, religious studies scholar Raphael Lataster considers the best arguments for and against the existence of the so-called Historical Jesus; the 'Jesus of atheists' [ ]
  
  "Parts 1 & 2 analyse the cases made by Bart Ehrman and Maurice Casey, who assert that Jesus definitely existed. Their arguments are found to be riddled with errors, and dependent on unreliable, and even non-existing, sources. Parts 3 & 4 discuss the more sceptical work of Lataster and Carrier, who conclude that Christianity probably began not with a humble carpenter, but with 'visions' of a heavenly Messiah."
  
  http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Did-Not-Exi ... l+Lataster

Discussed, so far(?), by

1. John Loftus & commenters on his blog - debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com.au/

2. Neil Gofrey and commenters on his blog - vridar.org/
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[MrMacSon]

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Neil Godfrey cites Richard Carrier's Introduction in the book -

"It has been remarked on by numerous observers, from John Crossan, who would write the famous line describing most historical work on Jesus “a disguise for doing theology and calling it history, doing autobiography and calling it biography, doing Christian apologetics and calling it academic scholarship”, and who then ironically did pretty much the very same thing himself, to James Crossley, who has argued that historians keep constructing a historical Jesus that conveniently agrees with who they want Jesus to have been, even writing two whole books on the point: Jesus in an Age of Terror and Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism.[ 2] That the problem is even more extensive than this is demonstrated by Hector Avalos in The End of Biblical Studies. These are all leading insiders, well qualified in the subject."

http://vridar.org/2015/11/18/jesus-did- ... d-carrier/

[MrMacSon]

As a somewhat aside, also published earlier this year -

Jesus Mythicism: An Introduction Kindle Edition

- nineteen interviews by prominent academics and researchers who were all asked to comment upon the question: 'Did Jesus really exist?'

by Minas Papageorgiou (Author)

The interviewees are: Dr Robert Price (theologian), Dr Richard Carrier (historian), Dr Maria Dzielska (historian), Dr Gerd Ludemann (theologian), Dr Gunnar Samuelsson (theologian), Dr Lena Einhorn (biologist and history researcher), Dr Payam Nabarz (writer and recreationist of the Mithraic Temple), Raphael Lataster (academic and researcher), Earl Doherty (historian), D. M. Murdock/ Acharya S (writer and scholar of comparative religion and mythology), Kenneth Humphreys (writer and researcher), Joseph Atwill (writer and researcher), Neil Godfrey (coordinator of the mythicist blog Vridar), Fritz Heede (filmmaker), Francesco Carotta (linguist and researcher), Daniel Unterbrink (writer and researcher), Ioannis Mpousios (writer and organiser of the “Gardens of Adonis” celebrations), Christos Morfos (writer and researcher), and Harita Meenee (philologist and writer).

File Size: 5504 KB
Print Length: 309 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: iWrite.gr Publications - Daidaleos Book Series; D001 edition ...
Publication Date: March 22, 2015
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00V3F5UE2
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

[Diogenes the Cynic]

I just bought the Kindle. I will read and review.