September 25, 2014 / Johan Rönnblom / 2 Comments
As a child, a teacher made me agree that even if all the Bible stories were fiction, there must still have been a real Jesus that the legend was built around. This conclusion was unsatisfactory, because how can we say that a man existed, if there is nothing specific we can know about him?
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September 25, 2014 / Johan Rönnblom / 5 Comments
Richard Carrier argues in his book On the Historicity of Jesus that Jesus fits exceptionally well into the Rank-Raglan hero classification. He claims no known historical figures do, making Jesus unlikely to have existed. I will examine these claims in detail. (more…)