by Greg Mayer No, it’s not an avant-garde staging of Shakespeare, but the actual skeletal remains of the last Plantagenet king of England. Archeologists recovered the remains last summer based on historical accounts of where he was interred following his death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. The church of Greyfriars in which he […]
Over at The New Oxonian, R. Joseph Hoffmann,who has not exactly been a friend of this website, reports that he is writing a book that will at last tell us the historical truth about Jesus. In his piece, ”Jesus: The Outline,” Hoffmann previews what his researches have revealed: I am going out on a limb, this […]
This is perhaps a Scrooge-y thing to do, but readers will surely want to know about it. It involves new research paper by Richard Carrier that bears heavily on the evidence for a historical Jesus. Most readers surely know of the controversy about whether the story of Jesus in the New Testament was based on […]
Well, at least I am; I can’t speak for anyone else at 5 a.m. But I suspect, according to today’s Google doodle, that we all made it: The Telegraph explains: Clicking the image send visitors to Google’s search reults page for “End of the 13th Baktun”. The 13th Baktun is the last cycle of the […]
According to CBC News, People in Schenectady, N.Y., will get a chance tonight to hear something that hasn’t been heard publicly since 1878: a tinfoil recording made that year on what was then revolutionary equipment, Thomas Edison’s phonograph. Gathering at the Museum of Innovation and Science, people will hear a rough-sounding 78 seconds of music […]
Well, the debate continues over whether a historical Jesus really existed, but in the meantime a fourth-century fragment of papyrus manuscript, written in Coptic (below), has appeared suggesting that God Incarnate might have had a wife. I saw this on the evening news, but there’s a fuller description at Live Science and Yahoo News. Live […]
These videos of a human birth, the first visualized by magnetic resonance imaging, apparently appeared as supplementary material to a paper by Bamberg et al. referenced at bottom. The scan was obviously terminated when the baby’s head emerged so that the machine wouldn’t interfere with removing the infant (see picture below). Supine view: The write-up […]
As anyone who reads this site should know, Bart Ehrman has published a new book on the historicity of Jesus: Did Jesus Exist? The historical argument for Jesus of Nazareth. You’ll also know that that the book doesn’t assert the divinity of Jesus, claiming, as Ehrman has consistently, that the man was a fully human […]
I am too jammed at the moment to read Bart Ehrman’s longer response to Richard Carrier, in which Ehrman defends his views on the historicity of Jesus. This was posted today, and several readers have brought it to my attention. So those of you who are interested in this continuing dogfight, go see “Fuller reply […]
Well, Bart Ehrman has responded on his website (Christianity in Antiquity: The Bart Ehrman Blog) to Richard Carrier’s criticisms of Ehrman’s new book affirming the historicity (but not the divinity) of Jesus. Well, he’s sort of responded, because, in his reply, called “Acharyna S, Richard Carrier, and a cocky Peter (or ‘A cock and bull […]
