num_pages: 608
description: Richard Carrier Ph.D. (Author) D.M. Murdock (Author) Ren Salm (Author) Earl Doherty (Author) David Fitzgerald (Author) Robert M. Price Ph.D. (Editor) Frank R. Zindler (Editor)When New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman published Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth he not only attempted to prove the historical reality of a man called Jesus of Nazareth he sharply criticized scholars who have sought to develop a new paradigm in the study of Christian originsscholars who have claimed that Jesus was a mythical not historical figure and that the traditional Jesus-centered paradigm for studying the origins of Christianity must be replaced by an actual science of Christian origins. In the present volume some of those scholars respond to Ehrmans treatment of their research and findings showing how he has either ignored misunderstood or misrepresented their arguments. They present evidence that Jesus of Nazareth was no more historical than Osiris or Thor. Several contributors question not only the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth they present evidence that the site of present-day Nazareth was not inhabited at the time Jesus and his family should have been living there.
language: English
title: Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth: An Evaluation of Ehrman s Did Jesus Exist?
publisher: American Atheist Press