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Hi toejam, I was not fairly analyzing your arguments, but satirizing the idea that many of Carrier's arguments are simply 50-50 propositions. In one sense every historical proposition can be either true or false, however, this does not give every or any historical proposition a 50-50 chance of being...

Hi toejam, The same can be said about the negativity of Paul Bunyan mythers towards the existence of Paul Bunyan. It is all based on a negative interpretation of the evidence. "Now I hear tell that Paul Bunyan was born in Bangor, Maine. It took five giant storks to deliver Paul to his parents. ...

Hi Hawthorne, Exactly. this reflects the way the emperor would adopt a man as his son in a spiritual sense to succeed him. The Jewish people were too young to be heirs of God when they obeyed the law of Moses. Now God has a son, the Christians who follow the angel Jesus. Warmly, Jay Raskin Crook's d...

Hi Bertie, "First, there's the texts that attest to a primitive, egalitarian Christianity, like the Didache, Pliny's testimony, and various pieces in Paul's letters and so on. Since this Radical theory has us going from (inherently elitist) esoterica to top-down proto-orthodoxy, it is not clear...

Hi Crow,

I'll try to get one out later in the Summer. Thanks.

Warmly,

Jay Raskin

The Crow wrote:Looks like an interesting book. Any chance we are going to see a Kindle edition soon?

Hi all, We should remember (or know) that there was not the same type of separation between Gods and people as there is today. Gods were just really big people, kind of like giants, only bigger. They had fundamentally human emotions and appetites. This applies to the Jewish God Yahweh too. Gods like...

Hi Charlie, Thanks for bringing this stuff up. People see Matthew and Luke using "Mark" and "Q," which is probably in some ways correct. However, I was thinking that Mark and John were also working off of a couple of proto texts. Most people see John rewriting the synoptics, but ...

Hi Mental flatliner, Perhaps, I should have used the term folk tales rather than fairy tales. When I said that we were dealing with fairy tales, I did not mean to be derogatory. I meant to be objective. Vladimir Propp's "Mophology of the Russian Folk Tale" helped me enormously to understan...

Hi Mental flatliner, It is so nice that you have solved this contradiction. Luke appears to put Jesus' birth at the time of Quirinus' census in 6 C.E. This seemed to contradict Matthew who put Jesus' birth in the lifetime of Herod who died in 4 B.C.E. You have solved the contradiction by saying the ...

Hi Peter, Good points. Like everybody, I'm doing seventeen things at once. This will take some time to research. If anybody else knows more, please feel free to pitch in. Warmly, Jay Raskin I think this is interesting from http://www.examiner.com/article/jesus-s-wife-fragment-considered-genuine Scie...