959M | MP3 | Audiobook | english | B00UCUM9E8 | 2015-03-11 | 28h8m
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Author: Richard Carrier
Narrated by: Richard Carrier
The assumption that Jesus existed as a historical person has occasionally been questioned in the course of the last hundred years or so, but any doubts that have been raised have usually been put to rest in favor of imagining a blend of the historical, the mythical, and the theological in the surviving records of Jesus. Historian and philosopher Richard Carrier reexamines the whole question and finds compelling reasons to suspect the more daring assumption is correct. He lays out extensive research on the evidence for Jesus and the origins of Christianity and poses the key questions that must now be answered if the historicity of Jesus is to survive as a dominant paradigm. Carrier contrasts the most credible reconstruction of a historical Jesus with the most credible theory of Christian origins if a historical Jesus did not exist. Such a theory posits that the Jesus figure was originally conceived of as a celestial being known only through private revelations and hidden messages in scripture; then stories placing this being in earthly history were crafted to communicate allegorically the claims of the gospel. Such stories eventually came to be believed or promoted in the struggle for control of the Christian churches that survived the tribulations of the first century. Carrier finds this theory more credible than has been previously imagined. He explains why it offers a better explanation for all the disparate evidence surviving from the first two centuries of the Christian era. He argues that we need a more careful and robust theory of cultural syncretism between Jewish theology and politics of the second-temple period and the most popular features of pagan religion and philosophy of the time. For everyone intent on defending a historical Jesus, this is the book to challenge them.
308K 101 _ On the Historicity of Jesus _ Richard Carrier, PhD.mp3 396K 102 _ Special Note for Listeners to the Audiobook.mp3 5.9M 103 _ Preface _ Read by the Author.mp3 464K 104 _ Chapter 1 _ The Problem.mp3 3.9M 105 _ (1.1) Isn't This Just Bunk.mp3 5.5M 106 _ (1.2) The Debate Today.mp3 2.4M 107 _ (1.3) Myth versus History.mp3 7.3M 108 _ (1.4) Mythicists versus Historicists.mp3 3.1M 109 _ (1.5) The Aim of This Book.mp3 1.5M 110 _ (1.6) Summary of Remaining Chapters.mp3 1.9M 111 _ (1.7) Applying Bayes's Theorem.mp3 1.1M 112 _ (1.8) Elements and Axioms.mp3 208K 113 _ Chapter 2 _ The Hypothesis of Historicity.mp3 4.0M 114 _ (2.1) Myth from History.mp3 8.8M 115 _ (2.2) The Basic Problem.mp3 7.0M 116 _ (2.3) Hypothesis Formation and Prior Probability.mp3 7.7M 117 _ (2.4) The Minimal Theory of Historicity.mp3 220K 118 _ Chapter 3 _ The Hypothesis of Myth.mp3 21M 119 _ (3.1) From Inanna to Christ.mp3 6.2M 120 _ (3.2) The Basic Problem.mp3 5.4M 121 _ (3.3) The Minimal Jesus Myth Theory.mp3 260K 122 _ Chapter 4 _ Background Knowledge (Christianity).mp3 3.4M 123 _ (4.1) A Romulan Tale.mp3 2.7M 124 _ (4.2) Background Knowledge.mp3 8.6M 125 _ (4.3) Elemental Definitions.mp3 1.4M 126 _ (4.4) Elemental Background Knowledge.mp3 44M 127 _ (4.5) Elements of Christian Origin.mp3 68M 128 _ (4.6) Elements of Christian Religion.mp3 9.8M 129 _ (4.7) Elements of Christian Development.mp3 540K 130 _ Chapter 5 _ Background Knowledge (Context).mp3 15M 131 _ (5.1) Elements of Political Context.mp3 69M 132 _ (5.2) Elements of Religious and Philosophical Context.mp3 27M 133 _ (5.3) Elements of Literary Context.mp3 628K 134 _ (5.4) Conclusion.mp3 240K 135 _ Chapter 6 _ The Prior Probability.mp3 4.8M 136 _ (6.1) Heroes Who Never Existed.mp3 2.6M 137 _ (6.2) Determining Prior Probability.mp3 7.1M 138 _ (6.3) Using the Rank-Raglan Reference Class.mp3 2.4M 139 _ (6.4) The Causal Objection.mp3 2.3M 140 _ (6.5) The Alternative Class Objection.mp3 3.8M 141 _ (6.6) The Complexity Objection.mp3 5.1M 142 _ (6.7) Rapid Legendary Development.mp3 1.5M 143 _ (6.8) Conclusion.mp3 392K 144 _ Chapter 7 _ Primary Sources.mp3 4.0M 145 _ (7.1) What Counts as Evidence.mp3 5.5M 146 _ (7.2) Breaking Down the Evidence.mp3 5.4M 147 _ (7.3) The Epistles.mp3 7.1M 148 _ (7.4) The Gospels.mp3 840K 149 _ (7.5) Acts.mp3 7.3M 150 _ (7.6) Extrabiblical Evidence.mp3 4.4M 151 _ (7.7) The Problem of Compromised Evidence.mp3 2.0M 152 _ (7.8) The Role of Consequent Probabilities.mp3 3.0M 153 _ (7.9) Conclusion.mp3 256K 154 _ Chapter 8 _ Extrabiblical Evidence.mp3 12M 155 _ (8.1) Jesus When.mp3 6.7M 156 _ (8.2) The Socrates Analogy.mp3 21M 157 _ (8.3) Missing Evidence.mp3 4.4M 158 _ (8.4) Missing Christian Evidence.mp3 12M 159 _ (8.5) Clement of Rome.mp3 14M 160 _ (8.6) Ignatius of Antioch.mp3 4.6M 161 _ (8.7) Papias of Hierapolis.mp3 8.5M 162 _ (8.8) Hegesippus.mp3 16M 163 _ (8.9) Josephus and the Testimonia Flaviana.mp3 6.3M 164 _ (8.10) Pliny and Tacitus.mp3 4.0M 165 _ (8.11) Suetonius and Thallus.mp3 11M 166 _ (8.12) Missing Evidence _ Contra Myth.mp3 1.8M 167 _ (8.13) Weighing the Evidence.mp3 252K 168 _ Chapter 9 _ The Evidence of Acts.mp3 14M 169 _ (9.1) Acts as Historical Fiction.mp3 5.1M 170 _ (9.2) What Happened to the Body.mp3 7.6M 171 _ (9.3) The Mysterious Vanishing Acts.mp3 9.2M 172 _ (9.4) The 'Trial Transcripts' of Paul.mp3 4.4M 173 _ (9.5) Stephen's Trial Speech.mp3 2.7M 174 _ (9.6) The Possibility of 'Aramaic' Sources.mp3 2.4M 175 _ (9.7) Weighing the Evidence.mp3 256K 176 _ Chapter 10 _ The Evidence of the Gospels.mp3 2.8M 177 _ (10.1) How to Invent a Gospel.mp3 10M 178 _ (10.2) What Is Myth.mp3 9.9M 179 _ (10.3) Examining the Gospels.mp3 86M 180 _ (10.4) The Mythology of Mark.mp3 21M 181 _ (10.5) The Mythology of Matthew.mp3 27M 182 _ (10.6) The Mythology of Luke.mp3 33M 183 _ (10.7) The Mythology of John.mp3 5.5M 184 _ (10.8) Weighing the Evidence.mp3 204K 185 _ Chapter 11 _ The Evidence of the Epistles.mp3 7.6M 186 _ (11.1) The Passion of Pliny the Elder.mp3 24M 187 _ (11.2) The Peculiar Indifference of Paul and his Christians.mp3 7.0M 188 _ (11.3) Epistles from the Pillars.mp3 12M 189 _ (11.4) The Earliest Gospels.mp3 27M 190 _ (11.5) The Gospel in Hebrews.mp3 8.6M 191 _ (11.6) Things Jesus Said.mp3 8.6M 192 _ (11.7) The Eucharist.mp3 23M 193 _ (11.8) Things Jesus Did.mp3 13M 194 _ (11.9) Women and Sperm.mp3 19M 195 _ (11.10) Brothers of the Lord.mp3 5.3M 196 _ (11.11) Weighing the Evidence.mp3 240K 197 _ Chapter 12 _ Conclusion.mp3 8.7M 198 _ (12.1) The Final Calculation.mp3 9.1M 199 _ (12.2) On Trying to Avoid the Conclusion.mp3 6.6M 200 _ (12.3) What We Should Conclude.mp3 12M 201 _ (12.4) The Last Desperate Objection.mp3 2.8M 202 _ (12.5) What Now.mp3 356K 203 _ On the Historicity of Jesus _ Richard Carrier, PhD.mp3 959M total
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