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6. Earl Doherty’s Response to Bart Ehrman’s Case Against Mythicism: Jewish Sources30 comments

Earl Doherty wrote 1 month ago: * Earl Doherty’s Response to Bart Ehrman’s Case Against Mythicism – Pt.6 What Did Jews Have to Say? … more →

Tags: earl doherty, Ehrman: Did Jesus Exist?, the James passage, Bart D. Ehrman, did Jesus exist

Socrates, Jesus and the broken reed of Josephus6 comments

Neil Godfrey wrote 7 months ago: Poor Josephus. He is made to bear such a burden of evidence for the sake of Jesus. Socrates’ b … more →

Tags: Josephus, the James passage, Jesus, Evidence for Jesus (Jesus Library), Socrates, Plato, Aristophanes

How they used to debate the evidence of Josephus for the historical Jesus12 comments

Neil Godfrey wrote 1 year ago: Continuing from my previous two posts my little roll on Jesus Not A Myth by “anti-mythicist … more →

Tags: the James passage, Howell Smith: Jesus Not Myth, Josephus, Testimonium Flavianum

"An important piece of non-Christian evidence" for the historicity of Jesus38 comments

Neil Godfrey wrote 1 year ago: This post raises reasons to challenge “the usual scholarly view” most recently asserted … more →

Tags: Casey: Jesus of Nazareth, Josephus, christ myth

What they used to say about Josephus as evidence for Jesus10 comments

Neil Godfrey wrote 2 years ago: Whenever someone says Josephus is evidence for Jesus, a misperception of the facts is at work. The f … more →

Tags: Josephus, the James passage, Schweitzer: Quest H Jesus

cuckoo postscript -- a more plausible Josephan "reconstruction"4 comments

Neil Godfrey wrote 3 years ago: I do not at all think, for reasons given in my previous posts, that Josephus wrote anything about Je … more →

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Cuckoo in the nest, 3 -- why ALL proposed TFs are unJosephan33 comments

Neil Godfrey wrote 3 years ago: Back into Josephus and the TF. I think my original draft really began at the heading Continuing the … more →

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Cuckoo in the nest (2) — Jesus in Josephus3 comments

Neil Godfrey wrote 3 years ago: continuing from jesus in josephus/cuckoo in the nest 1 . . . The Nest — Book 18 of Antiquities (The … more →

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Jesus in Josephus, a cuckoo in the nest. 110 comments

Neil Godfrey wrote 3 years ago: Some of the words in the Testimonium (TF) are characteristically Josephan, but when we step back and … more →

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Jesus in Josephus - "not extinct at this day"1 comment

Neil Godfrey wrote 3 years ago: Continued from the previous post, Jesus in Josephus, pts 5-12. Eusebius quotes a reference in Joseph … more →

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Jesus in Josephus -- pts 5-123 comments

Neil Godfrey wrote 3 years ago: Continued from my earlier post Jesus in Josephus – point 4 Eusebius quotes a reference in Jose … more →

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Jesus in Josephus -- Eusebian clues -- point 45 comments

Neil Godfrey wrote 3 years ago: Continued from my earlier post Testimonium Flavianum: more clues from Eusebius Eusebius quotes a ref … more →

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Political context of the current Testimonium Flavianum "consensus"4 comments

Neil Godfrey wrote 3 years ago: Reading James Crossley’s Jesus in an Age of Terror I can’t help but wonder how his thesi … more →

Tags: Historiography, Josephus

The Testimonium Flavianum: more clues from Eusebius16 comments

Neil Godfrey wrote 3 years ago: I have updated my previous post’s timeline of the apparent birth of the passage about Jesus fo … more →

Tags: Josephus, Testimonium Flavianum

The Jesus reference in Josephus: its ad hoc doctoring and various manuscript lines31 comments

Neil Godfrey wrote 3 years ago: The following time line of the evidence for Josephus’s mention of Jesus (The Testimonium Flavi … more →

Tags: Book Reviews & Notes, Jesus, Doherty: Jesus Puzzle, Eddy & Boyd: Jesus Legend, Josephus, Testimonium Flavianum, Eusebius, Slavonic Josephus


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