Historicity

Useful Sites and Articles

• Why I Don’t Buy the Resurrection Story by Richard Carrier
• Was Christianity Too Improbable to be False? by Richard Carrier
  
• Rebuttal to Tomb Burial by Joseph of Arimathea by Richard Carrier
  
• The Dying Messiah Redux by Richard Carrier
  
• Thallus:  An Analysis by Richard Carrier
• Thallus and the Darkness at Christ’s Death by Richard Carrier
• Pauline Interpolations by Richard Carrier
• Baye’s Theorem and the Jesus Family Tomb by Richard Carrier
• Origen, Eusebius, and the Accidental Interpolation in Josephus by Richard Carrier (leave your email in the comments if you want a copy)
• Evidence, Miracles, and the Existence of Jesus by Stephen Law
• The “Secret” Gospel of Mark by Robert Conner
• Methodological Approaches to Ancient History by Matthew Ferguson
• Why Scholars Doubt the Traditional Authors of the Gospels by Matthew Ferguson
• Ten Reasons to Reject the Apologetic 10/42 Source Slogan by Matthew Ferguson
• Are the Gospels Ancient Biographies? by Matthew Ferguson
• The Case Against the Empty Tomb By Peter Kirby
• The Jesus Puzzle by Earl Doherty
• The Quest for the Historical Nazareth by Gregory C. Jenks
• Mark’s Empty Tomb and Other Translation Fables in Classical Antiquity by Richard Miller (p.759-776)
  
• When Did Angels Become Demons? by Dale Martin (p.657-677)
• Historical Jesus Theories

Videos

Debates

• Richard Carrier vs. William Lane Craig
• Richard Carrier vs. J.P. Holding
• Richard Carrier vs. Mike Licona
• Richard Carrier vs. David Marshall
• Bart Ehrman vs. William Lane Craig
• Bart Ehrman vs. Craig Evans
• Bart Ehrman vs. Mike Licona

Short Lectures

• Richard Carrier: Did Jesus Exist?
• Richard Carrier: Rapture Day
• Richard Carrier: Why I Think Jesus Didn’t Exist
• Richard Carrier:  Why the Gospels Are Myth: The Evidence of Genre and Content
• Richard Carrier: Imagining the Study of Jesus Without Religion
• Richard Carrier: Acts as Historical Fiction
• Robert M. Price: Pagan Parallels to Christ
• Bart Ehrman: Misquoting Jesus

Lecture Series

• Yale University: Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature
• Stanford University: Historical Jesus

Books

1. On the Failed Quest for the Historical Jesus
2. On the Growth of Christianity
3. The Smell Test
4. On the Parallels Between Mark and the Psalms
5. On the Parallels Between Matthew and Daniel

1. On the Non-Historicity of The Patriarchs, Moses, and Daniel
2. On Alexander The Great and Jesus
3. On Jesus and Inanna
4. On Hellenistic Mystery Cults

1. On Transcription Errors
2. On the Story of the Adulteress Woman in John
3. On the Ending of Mark
4. On the Diverse Views of Early Christians
5. An Early Case of Mythicism
6. Related Lecture

Fragments Coming Soon

1. On the Emperor Cult of Ancient Rome
2. On Demons
3. On the Question of Why Jesus founded Christianity
4. On an Apologists’ Accusation
5. On Historical Crucifixion
6. On Historical Burial

1. The Mythic Hero Archetype
2. On the Discrepant Traditions of Jesus’ Life and Death and On the Attempts to Historicize Mythological Figures
3. On the Parallels between Jesus’ Baptism and the beginning of Zoroaster’s ministry and On the Parallels between John the Baptist and Jesus, and Elijah and Elisha
4. On the Midrashic Paralles between Jesus’ Calming of the Storm and Johah 1:4-6 and Psalms 107:23-29—and on the Parallels Between Jesus’ Calming of the Storm and Odyssey
5. On the Midrashic Parallels between Jesus Feeding the Crowds 2 Kings 4:42-44—and on the Parallels Between Jesus Feeding the Crowds and Odyssey
6. On the Parallels between Jesus Walking on Water and Homer’s Iliad
7. On the Midrashic Parallels between James and John’s Request and 2 Kings 2:9,10
8. On the Midrashic Parallels between the Crucifixion and Psalm 22
9. On the Parallels between John the Baptist’s Beheading and Odyssey
10. On D.F. Strauss’ Axiom

1. On the Quest for a Historical Jesus and Flawed Methodology

Miscellaneous Fragments and Material

1. Ronald Hendel on the Problem of Apologetics Passing as Scholarship
2. Robert Funk on the Historicity of Jesus
3. James D.G. Dunn on Myths in the New Testament
4. Robert M. Price on Higher Criticism vs. Apologetics
5. Jesus the Sorcerer submitted by Robert Conner
6. Thomas Brodie on Josephus
7. Margaret Barker On Yahweh, El Elyon and Jesus
8. Arthur Drews on Jesus as Myth
9. Marshall Gauvin on Mythicism
10. Dale Allison on Skepticism of Historicity and its Relation to Theology

THE HISTORICITY OF MUHAMMAD

Useful Sites and Articles

• The Quest of the Historical Muhammad
  

Videos

• Islam:  The Untold Story

Books

1. On the Higher Criticism of Islam and Christianity’s influence on Islam
2. On Jesus, the Muhammad
3. On Contradictions in the Hadith
4. On the Christology that Influenced the Qur’an
5. On the Unreliability of the Qur’an
6. On the Nonexistence of Muhammad