The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy and the Talpiot Tomb

by drmsheiser | Apr 30, 2012

That’s the title of Mark Goodacre’s recent post on the Talpiot tomb debate. I highly recommend the post, as it illustrates this logical fallacy very clearly and applies it to the Talpiot tomb material.

New Book Critiquing Jesus Mythicism

by | Mar 21, 2014 |

Another bad day for the Zeitgeist crowd. Prof. Larry Hurtado (Emeritus, University of Edinburgh) alerted his blog readers to a new book by Prof. Maurice Casey (Emeritus, Nottingham University). The title is Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths? Hurtado...

Update on Second Talpiot Tomb

by | Dec 15, 2013 |

This is about Talpiot B, the tomb with the alleged “Jonah and the fish” symbol on one of the ossuaries. Most people don’t think this is a coherent identification. I don’t (“Jonah” still looks like a ball of string to me). I’ve...

Divorcing Jesus’ Wife

by | Oct 3, 2012 |

This figures to be my last update on this, at least until after November's academic conferences. I'm bored with it. Here's some item updates on the alleged (but now suspected by many to be fake) fragment that has Jesus referring to his wife. (In case you're late to...

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