Meet the Mythicists: A Christian's Guide to Jesus Mythicism's Misguided Scholars and Crank Conspiracy Theorists (A Christian Response to Jesus Mythicism Book 2)

In Meet the Mythicists: A Christian's Guide to Jesus Mythicism's Misguided Scholars and Crank Conspiracy Theorists, Albert McIlhenny presents an introduction for Christians to the major Jesus mythicist authors past and present in encyclopedia form. For most mythicists, a short bio is given along with a brutally honest evaluation of their work. Christians who are faced with mythicist sources and want to know their reliability will get quick answers. This is an introductory text that assumes the reader knows only the very basic concepts of Jesus mythicism. The e-book is designed as a reference work for Christians engaging mythicist claims.

This e-book is part of the series A Christian Response to Jesus Mythicism that counters the thesis, popularized through films such as Zeitgeist and books by Earl Doherty, Tom Harpur, Richard Carrier, D. M. Murdock (aka "Acharya S"), and many others, that Jesus never existed. While this view is not taken seriously by scholars, it has entered the popular culture through sensationalistic books, films, and websites. In this series, various aspects of the mythicist viewpoint are subjected to a thorough critique and the bogus nature of their claims exposed for all to see.
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The contents of the book are as follows:

Series Introduction

Introduction

Allegro, John
Anderson, Karl
Atwill, Joseph
Avalos, Hector
Barker, Dan
Bauer, Bruno
Ben-Jochannaon, Yosef A. A.
Bernard, Raymond W.
Blavatsky, Madame
Bolland, Gerard
Brodie, Thomas
Busenbark, Ernest
Bushby, Tony
Butler, Samuel
Carlile, Richard
Carotta, Francesco
Carpenter, Edward
Carrier, Richard
Churchward, Albert
Cutner, Herbert
Dalton, Laurence E. & Shirley Strutton
Darlison, Bill
Deley, David
Detering, Hermann
Diederichs, Eugen
Doane, Thomas W.
Doherty, Earl
Dolo, Shaka Saye Bambata
Drake, Alexander
Drews, Arthur
Dupuis, Charles Francois
Duran, John
Einhorn, Lena
Elegard, Alvar
Fideler, David
Fitzgerald, David
Flemming, Brian
Freke, Timothy & Gandy, Peter
Gadalla, Moustafa
Graham, Lloyd M.
Graves, Kersey
Gray, Safari
Hagins, Ray
Hall, Manly P.
Harpur, Tom
Hawkins, Rook
Hazelrigg, John
Higgins, Godfrey
Hotema, Hilton
Huller, Stephen
Humphreys, Kenneth
Irvin, Jan & Rutajit, Andrew
Ivry, Don
Jabbar, Malik H.
Jackson, John G.
James, George M.
Johnson, Edwin
Joseph, Peter
Kalthoff, Albert
Kane, Greg
Kuhn, Alvin Boyd
Kwesi, Ashra
Lataster, Raphael
Leedom, Tim C.
Leidner, Harold
Lyons, Craig
Marshall, Larry
Martin, Sid
Massey, Gerald
Maxwell, Jordan
McKinsey, C. Dennis
Mitchell, Logan
Murdock, D. M.
Murphy, Derek
Newby, Frank C.
Noll, Kurt
O’Hair, Madalyn Murray
Onfray, Michael
Osman, Ahmed
Paine, Thomas
Papageorgiou, Minas
Paulkovich, Michael
Piso, Roman
Price, R. G.
Price, Robert M.
Remsberg, John E.
Reuchlin, Abelard
Reyes, E. Christopher
Roberts, Jonathan M.
Robertson, John M.
Rush, John
S, Acharya
Salm, Rene
Siegmeister, Walter
Smith, William Benjamin
Stefanelli, Al
Taylor, Robert
Thompson, Thomas L.
Tsarion, Michael
Tulip, Pier
Verenna, Thomas
Volney, Count
Walker, Barbara G.
Wells, George Albert
Wheless, Joseph
Williams, Walter
Wilson, Charles O.
Zindler, Frank

Conclusion

Appendix 1 – Dan Barker’s Debate Debacle

Appendix 2 – Carrier vs. Ehrman Scorecard

Appendix 3 – Earl Doherty and the Exegesis of the Pauline Epistles

Appendix 4 – Origins of the Name Jesus

Appendix 5 – Tom Harpur Defends His “Research”

Appendix 6 – Mushroom of Revelation

Appendix 7 – Craig Lyons and the “Disturbing Quotes”

Appendix 8 – Acharya S, Bart Ehrman, and the Penis-Nosed Rooster Man

Appendix 9 – Acharya S and the Crucifixion of Horus

Appendix 10 – Zeitgeist, Luxor Temple, and the Nativity of Jesus

Appendix 11 – Augustine, Al Stefanelli, and Documentation

Bibliography

Notes