If you’re making things up in your study, it’s probably not wise to bring that to attention. Yet, that’s exactly what Matthew Britt and Jaaron Wingo do in their book, “Christ Before Jesus.” This is the third part of my critique of their book, and in this article, we examine some additional potential concerns they…
What makes a good methodology? Well, the first step is to have a clear methodology. And it probably pays to understand the topic. For Matthew Britt and Jaaron Wingo, authors’ of “Christ Before Jesus,” they lack in both departments. This is part two of my critique their work. One of the things that gave some…
Can stylometry prove Jesus, or even Paul, didn’t exist? Short answer, no. Yet, that is a main focus in the book, Christ Before Jesus, a work that tries to further the Jesus Myth case. As a former mythicist, someone who accepted the conclusion that Jesus was a mythical figure, the argument was rather intriguing as…
Steven is a great scientist. But as with many scientists, they are out of their depth when speaking of history. Largely because the manner in which both are studied is rather different. So let’s break this article down. The first point that needs to be addressed is this idea that it’s not surprising that one…
I first just want to start off saying that I really enjoy most things Steven puts out. But I think he should stay in fields he actually knows, and I don’t think this is one. While he calls the piece he’s responding to as poorly informed, his response really isn’t any better. (To see Steven’s…
Ever since Dan Brown’s book, The Da Vinci Code, there has been a mass of misinformation about Constantine and the Council of Nicaea. This information was already circulating before Brown’s book, but he helped propel this conspiracy theory into the mainstream. Brown isn’t a historian, but he made very clear historical statements. But as with…
TLDR: Short answer, Christianity was in decline prior to WWII. Some point to the industrial revolution as to when this change began happening, and by the 1880s, one can see a transformation in religion, as scholarship becomes more critical, and theology has secularism interjected into it. In the US, you also have the rise of…
The Septuagint is the Greek translation of the Old Testament, or the Tanach. It contains a few books now regarded as Apocryphal, which are often included in various Bible translations today. It’s important because it gives us one more early manuscript tradition to go off of. It is in Greek, so it is a bit…