I think I have put together and iron clad case for holes in his reasoning and logic.
Someone would make less money explaining reality which in this case which is just unknown context and "rhetorical fiction" and no need to fabricate an explanation. ALL of the authors were far removed from his life or any event or even heard a single word from the man. Scholars all afraid to use the word "fiction" and looking for a natural explanation to explain myths. Some people claimed John had resurrected when listening to Jesus because Johns teachings lived. Just because Jesus teachings lived on, we see the same thing with Jesus here.
To claim Hallucinations narrows the historical context here. Now we have to say the original followers made this claim up, who were close to him and under emotional distress. This cannot be supported by evidence. Jesus was not god to the Aramaic Galileans nor a messiah nor resurrected. Now to the Hellenist in the Diaspora YES Jesus was resurrected and god because these are the only people who found value in the growing theology surrounding his martyrdom regardless of historicity of Jesus. Had his original followers believed in resurrection as Mr Ehrman proposes, they would also think of him as god which would be blasphemy for an Aramaic Jew. Not only that we would expect Aramaic text from real followers which to date we do not even have, nor even transliterations as if Aramaic text ever existed. To date there is no evidence at all of ANY Aramaic books on this topic suggesting real followers ever had anything to do with said Hellenistic text and Hellenistic belief.Mark 6:14New International Version (NIV)
John the Baptist Beheaded
14 King Herod heard about this, for Jesus’ name had become well known. Some were saying,[a] “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”