Did a Historical Jesus Exist?
June 25, 2019
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First in a series of more history related shows... on an atheist channel. Woo!
Special thanks to Biblical History Skeptics in helping research:
Sources referenced throughout:
BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR SURIS
REBUTTALS TO DYING-RISING GODS AND/OR THEIR RELATION TO JESUS:
CURRENT by scholars:
Jonathan Z. Smith, “Dying and Rising Gods,” in Lindsay Jones, ed, Encyclopedia of Religion (Detroit: Macmillan, 2005), 4:2535-4:2540
Mark S. Smith, “The Death of ‘Dying and Rising Gods’ in the Biblical World: An Update, With Special Reference to Baal in the Baal Cycle,” SJOT 12.2 (1998), pp. 257-313
Mark S. Smith, The Ugaritic Baal Cycle: Volume I. Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary of KTU 1.1-1.2 (Leiden: Brill, 1994), pp. 58-75
Bart Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist? (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2012), pp. 221-230
Paul Rhodes Eddy and Gregory A. Boyd, The Jesus Legend (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007), pp. 142-146
John Dominic Crossan, “Response to Robert M. Price,” in Beilby and Eddy (2005), p. 85
Darrell Bock, “Response to Robert M. Price,” in Beilby and Eddy (2005), p. 102
Tryggve Mettinger, The Riddle of Resurrection
Maurice Casey, Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014), pp. 225-232
Burton Mack, Myth and the Christian Nation (Indonesia: Equinox, 2008), p. 109-117
David Marshall, Jesus is no Myth! (Kuai Mu Press, 2016), pp. 18-40 provides some criticism of the hypothesis of Dying-Rising and pagan Christ connections
Michael Grant, Jesus: An Historian’s Review of the Gospels (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1979), pp. 199
Michael R. Licona, The Resurrection of Jesus (Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press Academic, 2010), pp. 536-537, 621-622
N. T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003), pp. 80-81, 126-127
N. T. Wright, “Jesus’ Resurrection and Christian Origins”
Willem Vorster, “The Religio-Historical Context of the Resurrection of Jesus and Resurrection Faith in the New Testament,” Neotestamentica 23.2 (1989), pp. 159-175
Stanley Porter and Stephen Bedard, Unmasking the Pagan Christ (Toronto: Clements Publishing, 2006), pp. 71-80
AGAINST THE MYTHICIST MISUSE OF PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA AND MISCONCEPTIONS:
F. H. Colson (trans), Philo: In Ten Volumes (and two Supplementary Volumes), Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1932), p. 45
Joel Edmund Anderson, “Richard Carrier and the Mythical Jesus (Part 3)The Mythicist ArgumentWelcome to Bizarro World (i.e. A Lesson on How Not To Interpret the Bible),” Resurrecting Orthodoxy, (03/13/2019)
Larry Hurtado, “Gee, Dr. Carrier, You’re Really Upset!,” Larry Hurtado’s Blog, (03/13/2019)
David Runia, Philo in Early Christian Literature (Minneapolis:
OTHER SOURCES WORTH YOUR TIME:
Robert Van Voorst, Jesus Outside the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000)
Walter P. Weaver, The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1950 (Harrisburg: Trinity International Press, 1999)
R. Joseph Hoffmann, Jesus in History and Myth (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1984)
Ian Wilson, Jesus The Evidence (Harper Collins, 1985)
Leslie Houlden, Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture (ABC-CLIO, 2003)
James D. G. Dunn, The Evidence for Jesus (Westminster Press, 1985)
Craig Evans, Jesus and his World (Westminster John Knox Press, 2013)
Craig Evans, Fabricating Jesus (Intervarsity Press, 2006)
R. T. France, The Evidence for Jesus (Regent College Publishing, 1986)
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