A lot of people have been asking me when I will be replying to Richard Carrier’s full-frontal assault (!) on my book. I’ve started to reply in a couple of posts (maybe some haven’t noticed….), but I hope to have a fuller set of comments soon, on his charges of “Errors of Fact.” I know what I want to say, but am simply overwhelmed right now with other things to do. Long story, I won’t bore you with it. But I *hope* to have a fairly sizeable posting on the topic by Wednesday (I’m saying this here so I don’t need to reply individually to everyone who has asked). I have decided that I will post it on the Public Forum, since I really do take his charges of scholarly incompetence seriously and feel that I need to address them.

In the meantime, someone forwarded to me the following post on R. Joseph Hoffmann’s blog. I think it’s pretty good and amusing and worth reading. I don’t think I’ve ever met Hoffmann, but I’ve known about him as a scholar in the field for about 25 years. I believe when I first encountered his work he was a professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Michigan. So he’s the real thing! And has some interesting things to say.
http://rjosephhoffmann.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/mythtic-pizza-and-cold-cocked-scholars/