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I am fully on board with considering the value of the text regardless of its provenance, and with measured skepticism about all received documents, ancient or m
by moloch-hai 4y ago
I am fully on board with considering the value of the text regardless of its provenance, and with measured skepticism about all received documents, ancient or modern. Best evidence is that actual physical existence of a Jesus in Palestine is about 50% likely, but the likelihood that (such a) He said any of what is received is roughly nil.
- memling 4y agoFor the interested do you have a set of sources?
- moloch-hai 4y agoPretty representative material. Of course various people differ in detail. https://independent.academia.edu/RichardCarrier https://independent.academia.edu/RichardCarrier Unfortunately he really would rather you buy his books than read his blog posts, so they are hard to search. https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/2014/08/car388028 https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/2014/08/car388028 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTllC7TbM8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTllC7TbM8M
- memling 4y agoThanks for passing this along. Carrier's innovations in the work of Bayesian inference applied to history are interesting and definitely worth exploring in greater detail. It's been a fun rabbit hole to go down!