There is a new book published by Oxford University Press that is a travesty of Christian apologetics undeservedly snaking the respectability of, well, Oxford University: T.C. Schmidt’s Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ. The rhetorical objective of this book is to convince people that the Testimonium Flavianum, a fawning paragraph about […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
Biblical historian Nina Livesey has produced one of several recent mainstream studies questioning the authenticity of all the letters of Paul: The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context: Reassessing Apostolic Authorship (Cambridge University Press, 2024). The others are by David Trobisch (for Fortress) and Markus Vinzent (also for Cambridge University Press), neither of […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
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