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Did the historical Jesus of Nazareth exist? Nathaniel looks into evidence and offers his conclusions.
Sources:
How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths - M. David Litwa
The Synoptic Problem: A Way Through the Maze - Mark Goodacre
The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ - Gary R. Habermas
The New Atheism, Myth, and History: The Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion - Nathan Johnstone
Jesus From Judaism to Christianity: Continum Approaches to the Historical Jesus - Tom Holmen et. al
Against Mythicism: A Case for the Plausibility of a Historical Jesus - Edmund Standing
The Reverand Bayes vs. Jesus Christ - Aviezer Tucker
Methodological Problems with the Jesus Myth Hypothesis - Stephen J. Bedard
Did Jesus Exist? What the Evidence Reveals - Tim Callahan
The World of Jesus Mythicism - James F. McGrath
What Can We Know of Jesus And His Activities? – Arguments for the Historicity of Jesus - Gerd Theissen
Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Maurice Casey
On Richard Carrier’s Doubts: A Response to Richard Carrier’s On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt - Daniel N. Gullotta
On the Nazareth Village Farm Report: A Reply to Salm - Stephen J. Pfann & Yehudah Rapuano
The Historical Jesus: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies - Craig A. Evans
On the Historicity of Jesus - Richard Carrier
The Existence of Jesus - Paul Barnett
The Historicity of Jesus: A Guide to Proponents and Skeptics - Jon Burke
The Quest for the Historical Nazareth - Gregory C. Jenks
Why the Testimonium Taciteum Is Authentic: A Response to Carrier - Willem J. C. Blom
Jesus Neither God nor Man: The Case for a Historical Jesus - Earl Doherty
Josephus on Jesus: Historical Criticism and the Testimonium Flavianum Controversy From Late Antiquity to Modern Times - Alice Ann Whealey
Was the Hypothetical Vortage of the Testimonium Flavianum a “Neutral” Text? Challenging the Common Wisdom on Antiquitates Judaicae 18.63-64 - Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
A Companion to Josephus - Various
Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth - Bart D. Ehrman
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Tik Tok! @DivineDisbelief
Did the historical Jesus of Nazareth exist? Nathaniel looks into evidence and offers his conclusions.
Sources:
How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths - M. David Litwa
The Synoptic Problem: A Way Through the Maze - Mark Goodacre
The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ - Gary R. Habermas
The New Atheism, Myth, and History: The Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion - Nathan Johnstone
Jesus From Judaism to Christianity: Continum Approaches to the Historical Jesus - Tom Holmen et. al
Against Mythicism: A Case for the Plausibility of a Historical Jesus - Edmund Standing
The Reverand Bayes vs. Jesus Christ - Aviezer Tucker
Methodological Problems with the Jesus Myth Hypothesis - Stephen J. Bedard
Did Jesus Exist? What the Evidence Reveals - Tim Callahan
The World of Jesus Mythicism - James F. McGrath
What Can We Know of Jesus And His Activities? – Arguments for the Historicity of Jesus - Gerd Theissen
Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Maurice Casey
On Richard Carrier’s Doubts: A Response to Richard Carrier’s On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt - Daniel N. Gullotta
On the Nazareth Village Farm Report: A Reply to Salm - Stephen J. Pfann & Yehudah Rapuano
The Historical Jesus: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies - Craig A. Evans
On the Historicity of Jesus - Richard Carrier
The Existence of Jesus - Paul Barnett
The Historicity of Jesus: A Guide to Proponents and Skeptics - Jon Burke
The Quest for the Historical Nazareth - Gregory C. Jenks
Why the Testimonium Taciteum Is Authentic: A Response to Carrier - Willem J. C. Blom
Jesus Neither God nor Man: The Case for a Historical Jesus - Earl Doherty
Josephus on Jesus: Historical Criticism and the Testimonium Flavianum Controversy From Late Antiquity to Modern Times - Alice Ann Whealey
Was the Hypothetical Vortage of the Testimonium Flavianum a “Neutral” Text? Challenging the Common Wisdom on Antiquitates Judaicae 18.63-64 - Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
A Companion to Josephus - Various
Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth - Bart D. Ehrman
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Tik Tok! @DivineDisbelief
