The Jesus Puzzle

The book has been out for quite a while but I just recently finished reading it. It's an interesting read for anybody interested in New Testament studies. I've always been opposed to the mythicist theory though after reading Doherty's book I accept it as a possibility.

I don't fully agree on his treatment of the 'brother of the Lord' passage in Galatians or his treatment on Q since the document hasn't survived. The Gospels as midrash don't nessecarily prove his theory either.

I'm an agnostic so it doesn't matter either way. His website http://www.jesuspuzzle.com/ is also worth a browse.
 

Aazealh

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I just read his "quick assembly" summarizing his theory on the website. What can I say, it's a reasonable theory but there are quite a bit of "probably" in there, it reminds me of SK.net's Speculation Nation (not a good thing). It seems plausible anyway, I might pick up the book if I stumble on it someday.
 
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