Not sure what to say about this stuff. "Bart
Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth", edited by Frank
Zindler and Robert Price, is a response to Bart Ehrman's book "Did Jesus
Exist". The contributors argue that Jesus was a purely mythological
figure, a position known as Mythicist. Unfortunately, the articles are
talkative, emotional, nitpicky and extremely repetitive. There is no attempt at
a real synthesis, and after a while it *does* get a bit annoying to read
another sarcastic exposition by the ever-present editor Zindler. Nobody doubts
that *he*, at least, is a real historical character! I consider the haphazard
and eclectic character of this work to be somewhat unfortunate, since many of
the Mythicist arguments are interesting in themselves. So are some of their
methodological points. I might consider perusing the Mythicist literature at
some later date, but this teaser trailer was a bit "under the ice" as
far as I'm concerned...
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