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At the end of the day - however well any Doherty/Carrier mythicists try and interpret the NT story they are left with this problem.... Comment on Mark Goodacre' blog Mike Gantt said... gurugeorge, I have invited Earl Doherty and others to explain just what mythicists believe actually happened. None ...

Interesting. I've no Greek so can't debate the language issues. Hope Mark Bilby pays the forum a visit. How's your Latin skills? :-) The reconstructors are trying to figure out what the greek words are from the Lagin screeds :-) I wouldn't find it hard to believe that it was originally "Nazara...

Klinghardt, Matthias. The Oldest Gospel: A Missing Link in New Testament Scholarship, Kindle Edition. Looks like Jason BeDuhn also has "Nazara". Things that make you go "hmmm....." Perhaps Ben Smith can opine here? Or vocasante, if you've got the big ears on? 04","16&q...

[ Nazara entered the Jesus tradition before Nazareth did. FWIW Marcion's Evangelion (which is our earliest witness to the text of Luke) has "Nazareth", not "Nazara". Tertullian doesn't note a difference in place name with his copy of Luke. Matthias Klinghardt, in The Oldest Gosp...

Richard Carrier's book, Jesus from Outer Space , has been released in Polish and Greek. My popular market summary of my academic study of Jesus, Jesus from Outer Space, is now available in Greek and Polish translations. Follow the links for details and to buy one. These are not available in the Amer...

And Josephus - based on ?. OK, I'll take a guess - pure speculation of course - Agrippa II. How do you do it, maryhelena? Secret Alias wrote a "...silly little book" [His words...] on A-II and HE didn't get it. Everyone, please look at "The Baptism of John" and "The Baptism...

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers (Luke 2:46-47) ...was based on Josephus's Life 2: ...and I made mighty proficiency in the improvement...

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers (Luke 2:46-47) ...was based on Josephus's Life 2: ...and I made mighty proficiency in the improvement...

A bunch of comments went up on Goodacre's blog here: https://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/did-jesus-exist-with-richard-carrier.html Earl Doherty for example makes an appearance in the comment section. A few of my posts to the Goodacre blog re the debate with Carrier.........how time flies. maryhel...

You don't know which Semitic source lies behind the Greek (in its various forms) and you can't show that - in its earliest usage - Ναζαρενος was a gentilic rather than an epithet (though you've assumed the former [ABD]). You might benefit from F.C. Burkitt's "Syriac Forms of New Testament Prop...