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Secret Alias wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2017 1:19 pm Not true. I think you're too smart not to be a Biblical scholar. I think you deliberately understate your erudition. I mean that as a complement.

Why, thank you.

Mr. Ehrman! Really! Nice attempt at deflection.

just because Carrier has been defeated I mean the salacious lifestyle choices and volatile personality did him in. Come on. These are serious scholars. They'd never use ad hominem attacks against a living peer (remember the panel of psychologists examining a dead Morton Smith at that SBL conference...

Couldn't Bart Ehrman creating an online personality 'John C Smith' in 2005 and 'reactivating' this alias from time to time be kind of like Paul creating 'Jesus'? What's the difference? ^ Oh yeah. Ben C. Smith is really Mark Goodacre. For any whose curiosity might inexplicably lead them to wonder as...

It's our seriousness that infused Jesus's existence with certainty. Carrier's book was too serious. Trying to invent a new myth to replace the old. Make Jesus's historicity a parlor game, a beer drinking game. Wasn't there a Star Trek episode where the crew has to defeat an enemy by laughing at him...

'Stuart' signed one of his more recent posts as an acronym - sgw I think. My guess is that he is a real person named Stuart who has some academic background probably on the West Coast, probably published or nearly published something on Marcion. It's a parlor game just as the 'historical Jesus' que...

But Jax isn't a real sounding name. We get that you aren't a real person. If Paul had named Jesus 'Jax' the fiction would be revealed. If it was an invention he named his main character the Jewish equivalent of 'John C Smith' for a deliberate purpose. Actually, Jax stands for "Jesus as X"...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2017 11:31 am Well of course you are reading the orthodox recension of the gospel and the writings of Paul. Pity we don't have Marcion's recension of both.

Agreed.

Examples of sock puppets in antiquity: 1. pseudepigrapha - modern equivalent Golb Jr impersonating Schiffman 2. outright invention - modern equivalent the existence of a person with a real sounding name at the forum with a real sounding back history who doesn't exist Again. Who cares if a poster ac...

At least concerning Paul, I don't get the opinion when reading his letters that he is making up a "Jesus" whole cloth, but rather that he is horning into someone else's action.