Ah. Yes. It seems dodgy only trivial things like that. The article is on substantive matters quite good.

And to be fair…

Technically Bart Ehrman is a theologian (all his degrees are in theology and he wrote a prominent book on the subject). And failing to make the distinction of theologian “in what sense” doesn’t bother me in an article where it isn’t relevant.

Likewise, lots of us will say off-hand that Mark wrote Mark—I’ve done that myself from time to time; and so has Ehrman. When I have space, I explain what I mean (it’s simply a convenient a place-holder for whoever did write it). But in an article like this, that distinction is again not relevant to anything the reporter is covering. So that doesn’t bother me either.

Oh, nothing significant – I’d have to read it again, but from memory I think for example they describe Ehrman as a theologian, and Mark as the author of Mark.

I realise my comment looks like I’m disparaging the article, but in fact I found it an absorbing read.

Can you specify what in that article you find inaccurate, omitted, or oversimplified?

OMG that guy Z was truly intense, not to say else…

Even if I wanted to believe so bad there was maybe a real Jesus, I think that you have made the case quite clear, that the evidences are quite scarce to none existant.

The only thing remaining, that comes to my mind is that the Romans have probably destroyed a lot of evidences during those two Jewish wars….

That’s my only way to keep believing in such a small possibility there was a Jesus, like that Samaritan Prophet (was it the Man…), described by Josephus.

Otherwise I think you would have nailed it for good!

The Hatter would surely still say the paleograph was forged and this manuscript really dates to the fourth century and is part of the conspiracy.

I’d recommend Pagels, Revelations, for a start. The most widespread view is that it was written in the 90s as a commentary on the reign of Domitian, and in defense of Torah observant Christianity against their Gentile opposition. It’s comparable to the Book of Daniel (and as such similarly probably credited to a false author) in serving the purpose of rallying the sect toward a current cultural mission through the motivation of a fast approaching end time (like apocalypses are usually used for, all the way even to Harold Camping in the present day, and the Seventh Day Adventists most famously).