Richard Carrier Ph.D. - Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth

contributors

richard carrier, Ph.D., historian, philosopher, and author of Proving History: Bayess Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus. Dr. Carrier specializes in the religious and intellectual history of Greece and Rome and the modern philosophy of naturalism and Atheism. His next book On the Historicity of Jesus Christ will soon be published. To learn more about him and his work see www.richardcarrier.info.

EARL DOHERTY began his research into the question of Jesus existence in the early 1980s, and in 1996 was the first to create a Web-site presenting the argument for what is now known as Jesus Mythicism. Both the Web-site and his first published book in 1999, The Jesus Puzzle , were influential in bringing Mythicism to wide public exposure and popularity. His 2009 opus, Jesus: Neither God Nor Man , is perhaps the most comprehensive case yet published for the non-existence of Jesus of Nazareth.

david fitzgerald is, among other things, a writer and historian on the speakers bureau of both the Secular Student Alliance and Center for Inquiry; Director of the worlds first Atheist Film Festival; an audience favorite at Skepticon; and author of Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All (voted one of the top 5 Atheist/Agnostic books of 2010); and the forthcoming The Complete Heretics Guide to Western Religion ( Book One: The Mormons ) and Jesus: Mything in Action.

D. M. Murdock a.k.a. Acharya S is an alumna of Franklin & Marshall College and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, where she studied under world-renowned classicists and archaeologists. Murdock researches in English, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese and other languages. She is the author of several books, including The Christ Conspiracy, Suns of God , Who Was Jesus? and Christ in Egypt . Articles by Murdock have been published on several Web-sites and E-zines, as well as in magazines, books, and journals.

Ren Salm isAn independent researcher, who has investigated the field of religion for almost four decades, producing books on both Buddhism and Christianity. He has had a successful career in the mental health field as well as in music. His controversial book The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus (2008) is an archeological expos that shows that the town of Nazareth came into existence after the time that Jesus should have been living there. Salm continues to investigate possible historical and religious links between Christianity and Buddhism and maintains several Web-sites, including www.mythicistpapers.com ( Mythicist Papers ) and www.nazarethmyth.info.

Robert M. Price, P h.D. in Systematic Theology, Ph.D. in New Testament, is the author of many books including Deconstructing Jesus, The Widow Traditions in Luke-Acts, and The Amazing Colossal Apostle . He is the host of two podcasts, The Bible Geek and The Human Bible . Price serves as contributing editor for The American Rationalist and The Humanist . He is a native Mississippian, lived long in New Jersey, and now happily dwells in remote Selma, North Carolina, with his beloved wife Carol and daughters Victoria and Veronica.

Frank R. Zindler is a linguist, geologist, neurophysiologist, and the editor of American Atheist Press. A former professor of biology and geology, he translated and published an English version of early German Christ-Myth theorist Arthur Drews The Legend of Saint Peter . His The Jesus the Jews Never Knew an exhaustive study of all Jewish literature surviving from antiquityshowed that the ancient Jews had never heard of Jesus of Nazareth. Indeed, they had never heard of Nazareth! Bart Ehrmans Did Jesus Exist? has criticized several chapters of the first volume of Zindlers four-volume Through Atheist Eyes: Scenes From a World That Wont Reason .