April 2019
The Wonderful World of Widowfield
Pagan Copycat Theories 04/30/19- A response to Tim Widowfield's attempts to defuse the high context factor.
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The Life Markers of Jesus
Pagan Copycat Theories 04/30/19- How do mythicists dispense with clear references to a historical Jesus in the epistles?
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The Screaming Silence
Pagan Copycat Theories 04/30/19- The first part of the chapter introducing Doherty's "silence" thesis.
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January 2019
The Raglan Reduction
Pagan Copycat Theories 01/15/19- A look at the theories of Lord Raglan.
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Minor League Copycats
Pagan Copycat Theories 01/15/19- A potpourri of failed copycat Christs.
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Attis
Pagan Copycat Theories 01/14/19- Attis is another pagan Christ by sleight of semantic hand.
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Horus and Osiris
Pagan Copycat Theories 01/14/19- Parallels between Jesus and these Egyptian deities requires imagination -- and obfuscation.
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Krishna
Pagan Copycat Theories 01/14/19- Jesus didn't borrow from Krishna -- it was the other way around!
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Buddha
Pagan Copycat Theories 01/14/19- Claims that Buddha was an imitation Christ are based mostly on semantic sleight of hand.
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Zoroaster
Pagan Copycat Theories 01/14/19- Zoroaster's data is much too late for him to be a copycat Christ.
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The Tale of William Tell
Secular References 01/14/19- William Tell is an excellent example of a non-historical personage who debubnks the Jesus-myth.
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Refuting Rembserg's List
Secular References 01/14/19- What do we make of lists of historians who did not mention Jesus?
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The Testimony of Pliny and Lucian
Secular References 01/14/19- Pliny and Lucian provide minor but useful references to the historical Jesus.
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The Testimony of Josephus
Secular References 01/10/19- The Authenticity of the Shorter Reference to Jesus
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