Richard Carrier Blogs

So I debated Jason DeCosta on his version of the Israel Only theory, which purports to “fix” all the problems I found in The Incompetent Crankery of the Israel Only Movement before (all discussed on MythVision years ago).

Next Sunday (October 18th) I’ll be debating Jason DeCosta on his version of the Israel Only theory, which purports to “fix” all the problems I found before in The Incompetent Crankery of the Israel Only Movement (discussed on MythVision years ago).

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Yesterday I started this two part series explaining what I am doing and why (so please catch up there), and went through an extended example from R.G.

I have often noted or even used good ideas from amateur scholars like David Oliver Smith and R.G.

So James McGrath is a liar for Jesus, defending Christian dogma with slander and lies about me and my work, desperately, childishly, trying to get people to not read it lest they discover his lies and uncover the truth.

Christian apologist James McGrath published a brief review of The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus in the latest Booklist Issue of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament.

Atlanta might be my only public talk this year (IRL).

What’s up with the numbers across Mark’s two feeding narratives?

Today I want to introduce you to three books about the Bible not written by PhDs yet are outstanding enough to be well worth reading.

So, the story began with a debate between Dan Wallace and Bart Ehrman in 2012.

Jorge Guerra Pires will be producing occasional translations of my blog articles in Portuguese.

This is another updated extract from Sense and Goodness without God that I’ve removed from its future edition (coming soon) because it’s an unnecessary use of wordcount there.

Everyone knows I think AI is garbage and should never be trusted to do the work for you.

I just published a major new article in a peer-reviewed journal, the Canadian-American Theological Review: “Did Any Pre-Christian Jews Expect a Dying-and-Rising Messiah?”

Today I review for you the top three handbooks in ancient science and technology.

Recently, Than Christopoulos produced a silly and absurdly wordy insistence that Bayes’ Theorem proves Jesus rose from the dead in Paulogia…It’s Time To Stop.