Texts and Towns that Allegedly Didn’t Exist (So Did Jesus?)

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Texts and Towns that Allegedly Didn’t Exist (So Did Jesus?)
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Texts and Towns that Allegedly Didn’t Exist (So Did Jesus?)

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Show Notes

Here I continue to answer questions from my evangelical colleague in the field, Ben Witherington, as addressed some years ago, These again deal with the claims of “Mythicists,” who insist that there never actually was a man Jesus, but that he is simply made up, a complete myth. One way they support their point is by saying that some passages in the ancient world that mention him in fact are later “interpolations” into the original writings (that is, some nefarious editor stuck references to Jesus into a text that originally didn’t mention him) and that his hometown, Nazareth, actually did not exist at the time. Is either claim credible or, well, supported by any actual *evidence*? Here are Ben’s queries and my responses. Read by Petra Ortiz

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