{"id":1164,"date":"2014-08-20T10:55:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T10:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2014-08-20T10:55:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T10:55:23","slug":"mythicism-from-around-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2014\/08\/20\/mythicism-from-around-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythicism from Around the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Blogger Natural Reason is <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalreason.revolvingplanet.net\/category\/historicity-of-jesus\/\">doing his own series<\/a> about Carrier&#8217;s new book. Looks great so far! He&#8217;s discussing things that I did not (I only discussed portions of the book that I was interested in) and providing good food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>* I found an old blog post on Vridar <a href=\"http:\/\/vridar.org\/2013\/12\/31\/a-simonian-origin-for-christianity-part-7-the-source-of-simonpauls-gospel-2\/\">discussing<\/a> the <em>Ascension of Isaiah<\/em>. While I feel unsure about many of the author&#8217;s speculations, I think his arguments for a radically early dating of &#8220;The Vision of Isaiah&#8221; are fair, and innovative. If he is correct that the Vision dates to the 30&#8217;s or 40&#8217;s CE, this will stand as a near conclusive piece of evidence for mythicism (Carrier argues that the <em>Vision<\/em> depicts a Jesus who was crucified in the lower heavens by Satan and his angels, see especially pp.41-42 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1909697494\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1909697494&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ansingenbus-20&amp;linkId=6G24GVD637CVCENG\"><em>On the Historicity<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>* The Podcast <em>Reasonable Doubts<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/reasonabledoubts\/2014\/07\/25\/episode-130-how-jesus-became-god-with-guest-bart-d-ehrman\/\">just did an interview with Bart Ehrman<\/a> on his latest book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061778184\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0061778184&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ansingenbus-20&amp;linkId=Y36FU4F7V7EP2BRQ\"><em>How Jesus Became God<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Be sure and check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/arioch69\">Aeon Bytes Gnostic Radio<\/a>. Lots of great interviews relating to ancient history \/ Jesus mythicism. I especially liked the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/KGQwMdVzlLQ?t=22m10s\">interview with Acharya S<\/a> when she discusses some of the founding fathers and other historical figures who endorsed mythicism.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Blogger Natural Reason is doing his own series about Carrier&#8217;s new book. Looks great so far! He&#8217;s discussing things&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}