While I greatly appreciate Dr Ehrman’s scholarship, I find he engages in virtual polemicism when writing about the mythical understanding of the Jesus movement origins. I’d like to explore this topic further, can someone suggest one or more books by accredited, peer reviewed authors that make the case for a mythical origin?
Thanks,
Daniel
The reason Carrier is “serious” is because he’s one of the few mythicists who realize that you still have to explain how Christianity, which certainly exists, first came into being without Jesus. Most mythicists seem to think their work is done simply by raising questions about Jesus’ historicity. To actual historians the real question is how Christianity came to be, not “Did Jesus exist?”
Certainly the implication is agreement with the hypothesis, argument and conclusion.
That is decidedly not what peer-review is supposed to confirm. In practice it might sometimes (bad articles get pushed through because the reviewers are just cheerleading the conclusion, or strong but controversial articles get torpedoed because the conclusion gets the reviewers’ panties in a twist), but in theory, peer review should just determine that the research is sufficiently serious to merit being read–whether the reviewer agrees with the conclusions or not.
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