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New Journal Publication on Jewish Expectations of a Dying Messiah

Richard Carrier — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:54:19 +0000

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?” It will be the lead article in vol. 14, their delayed 2025 issue (print copies are going out to that journal’s subscribers in a few weeks, and digital versions will be available […]

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Hardback Edition of Hitler Homer Bible Christ

Richard Carrier — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:08:10 +0000

In preparation for a new anthology I have coming out later this year, which will be available in all formats, I just created a hardback edition of its companion volume. So if you want a complete set of my anthologies in hardback, you can start collecting now! The old book coming into hardback is Hitler […]

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The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus Is Now Available

Richard Carrier — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:46:33 +0000

That’s right! My new book, years in the making, is currently being printed and now available for pre-orders: The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus. This is the formal academic sequel to On the Historicity of Jesus. And the official description is spot-on: More than a decade has passed since peer-reviewed studies began questioning the […]

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New Publication: Objective Moral Facts Exist in All Possible Universes

Richard Carrier — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:11:09 +0000

I have a new peer-reviewed publication in philosophy: “Objective Moral Facts Exist in All Possible Universes,” Religions 16.8 (2025). This consolidates my previous peer-reviewed work on metaethics (“Moral Facts Naturally Exist (and Science Could Find Them,” in The End of Christianity, ed. John Loftus, Prometheus 2011) and subsequent blogging and debates into a new peer-reviewed […]

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My New Book! Jesus: Militant or Nonexistent? Two Views Compared

Richard Carrier — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:55:57 +0000

I just published the English edition of my debate with Fernando Bermejo-Rubio and Franco Tommasi, Jesus: Militant or Nonexistent? Two Views Compared (Philosophy Press, 2025), including a chapter by Robert Price, and originally published in Italian as Gesù resistente Gesù inesistente: Due visioni a confronto (Manni, 2022). There we composed a written debate, meeting assigned […]

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Audiobook of Jesus from Outer Space? Now Available!

Richard Carrier — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:21:42 +0000

It’s been a long time coming. But finally I can say again that every book I have written is available in audio! But I won’t be able to say “all read by me” anymore. Jesus from Outer Space is now available in an Audible edition, read by KC Gleason. She does a fantastic job and […]

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Jesus from Outer Space Now Available in Greek and Polish!

Richard Carrier — Fri, 03 May 2024 13:50:34 +0000

My popular market summary of my academic study of Jesus, Jesus from Outer Space, is now available in Greek and Polish translations. Follow the links for details and to buy one. These are not available in the Americas by normal channels, but special ordering at a brick and mortar store might be possible; otherwise, you’re […]

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What I Said at the Brea Conference

Richard Carrier — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:48:37 +0000

Earlier this year I presented at the Pacific regional Society of Biblical Literature conference. My paper’s title in the program was, “Field Update on the Case Against the Historicity of Jesus: Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications For and Against.” Which is now listed in my professional cv. Recently a reader asked that I discuss what went on […]

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My New Article in SHERM

Richard Carrier — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:08:18 +0000

Last year I gave a presentation for the GCRR conference on atheism (Come See Me & Others Speak at the 2020 International eConference on Atheism!). This year I will be reprising that appearance on another subject (Come See Me & Others Speak at the 2021 International eConference on the Historical Jesus!). Both are related projects: […]

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Theism & Atheism: Science

Richard Carrier — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:30:46 +0000

Part 3 of my series on the new Macmillan reference Theism & Atheism: Opposing Arguments in Philosophy: my discussion of the Argument from Science, which holds that the collective consequence of the advance of the sciences is the substantial reduction in the epistemic probability of theism. I’ll also discuss the other atheist contributions on the […]

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