num_pages: 458
description: For a lay audience and with help from historian Richard Carrier religious studies scholar Raphael Lataster considers the best arguments for and against the existence of the so-called Historical Jesus; the Jesus of atheists.Parts 1 &amp; 2 analyse the cases made by Bart Ehrman and Maurice Casey who assert that Jesus definitely existed. Their arguments are found to be riddled with errors and dependent on unreliable and even non-existing sources. Parts 3 &amp; 4 discuss the more sceptical work of Lataster and Carrier who conclude that Christianity probably began not with a humble carpenter but with 'visions' of a heavenly Messiah.This exciting collaboration makes it very clear why the Historical Jesus might not have existed after all and to those willing to adopt a commonsensical probabilistic approach Jesus Did Not Exist.
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title: Jesus Did Not Exist: A Debate Among Atheists
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