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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/18/did-historical-jesus-exist-the-traditional-evidence-doesnt-hold-up/?utm_term=.469b1a22c53b[/quote]

Thanks for the link to Raphael Lataster's piece. Here's Lataster's former professor, John Dickson, talking about how he'd give Lataster an F for that piece because of his "numerous misrepresentations of scholarship":

http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2014/12/24/4154120.htm

For those of you who are interested, Lataster espouses "mythicism," the theory that "Jesus started out as a purely celestial figure revealed in dreams and visions to prophetic figures like the apostle Paul and only later written into history-sounding texts like the Gospels."

As Dickson writes, " 'Mythicists' are the historical equivalent of the anti-vaccination crowd in medical science.... But anyone who dips into the thousands of secular monographs and journal articles on the historical Jesus will quickly discover that mythicists are regarded by 99.9% of the scholarly community as complete "outliers," the fringe of the fringe." Dickson uses lots of other fun phrases, like "indefensible exagerration" and "eccentric" and "grandiose"  to describe the article at PP's link. Both Lataster's Purcell and Dickson's follow-up are worth a read.

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I bet Lataser would give Dickson an F for his remarks.

It all happened so long ago, with so little evidence and so much storytelling surrounding it that it's hard to tell what's fact and what's fiction.  But God, being all-powerful, must have wanted it that way.[/quote]

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