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Jesus Mythicism

History for Atheists regularly features responses to and critiques of Jesus Mythicism – the idea that not only was Jesus not what Christianity claims, but also that there was no historical Jesus at all. Despite this being a thesis with little academic support and accepted by no more than a handful of fringe scholars, it is enthusiastically supported by many atheists, particularly of the New Atheist variety.

The Jesus Mythicism Series (Ongoing)

Did Jesus Exist? The Jesus Myth Theory, Again

Jesus Mythicism 1: The Tacitus Reference to Jesus

Jesus Mythicism 2: “James the Brother of the Lord”

Jesus Mythicism 3: “No Contemporary References to Jesus”

Jesus Mythicism 4: Jesus as an Amalgam of Many Figures

Jesus Mythicism 5: The Nazareth “Myth”

Jesus Mythicism 6: Paul’s Davidic Jesus in Romans 1:3

Jesus Mythicism 7: Josephus, Jesus and the ‘Testimonium Flavianum’

Jesus Mythicism 8: Jesus, History and Miracles

The Historical Jesus

Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet

Other Mythicism Articles

Scientists and “Rationalists” Getting the Historical Jesus Completely Wrong

Richard Carrier is Displeased

Atheistically Speaking Podcast on Jesus Mythicism

Easter, the Existence of Jesus and Dave Fitzgerald

PZ Myers and “Jesus Agnosticism”

Richard Carrier is Displeased, Again

History for Atheists on the Non Sequitur Show 4: Jesus Mythicism

Reason to Doubt: Mythicism and Responses to David Fitzgerald

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