R. Joseph Hoffmann on the Jesus Mythicists Richard Carrier, Earl Doherty, Neil Godfrey and Tom Verenna

‘Richard Carrier & Co., Earl Doherty, Neil Godfrey and Tom Verenna for example, have no qualifications at all to be doing research in biblical studies . . . So I have to ask: what makes these guys so confident, if not their errant presuppositions, that anyone who can read can . . . make scholarly pronouncements about the Bible.  Worse, when corrected, they pronounce the whole field askew and themselves right.  That is not the way serious scholarship works — and I think, in their heart of hearts they must know that they are simply playing a game.’ ~ R. Joseph Hoffmann

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