Robert M. Price

Bible Scholar, Critical Thinker, Non-theist,  Prof.  Robert M. Price      •  Biography      • Blog    •  Theological Publications     •  Literary Criticisms    •  Higher Critical Reading List    •  Columns    •  Reviews   •  Sermons      •  The Bible Geek      •  Fiction       •    The Christ-Myth Theory and Its Problems                --  A Book  on  The Historicity of Jesus  " ... New Testament scholar Robert M. Price ... has assembled evidence that shows that almost the entire 'biography of Jesus' has been created from Greek Old Testament stories and themes and even incorporates motifs from Homer, Euripides, and perhaps Aesop. Because readers will have a hard time 'taking it on faith' that the Jesus biography is merely a reworking of previous material, broad swaths of  'Old Testament' context are quoted in association with each New Testament equivalent, so readers can judge for themselves whether or not Dr. Price's claim be true: the ' Live of Christ'  was not fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies; it was, rather, a conscious reworking of earlier literature. ..."  --  Amazon Review      •   The Amazing Colossal Apostle : The Search for the Historical Paul                         --  A Book on  The Historicity of Paul the Apostle  If New Testament scholars, at least those who retain any Christian faith, were to lose Paul, they wouldn’t know what to do! To whom could they appeal for a true vision of God and his purposes for mankind? Could they turn to the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews? Jude? Not likely. Here at the end of this exploration of the amazing colossal Paul, who looms so large over the religious landscape, it is worth asking whether and in what sense we have retained a useful Paul. ...  Protestantism is based on Martin Luther, and Luther’s theology is based on Paul, but Paul stands based on nothing at all. Paul does not have a unitary voice, is not a single author whose implied opinions might be synthesized and parroted. He is not even a single historical figure. ...          -- Robert M. Price, in, The Amazing Colossal Apostle, p. 577- •  Book : The Empty Tomb - Jesus Beyond The Grave Did the Resurrection actually take place? This is the central question that  Robert M. Price and Jeffery Jay Lowder pose in their essay collection. Written in response to recent works by Wolfhart Pannenberg, William Lane Craig, Murray J. Harris, and others who offered a defense of the Resurrection on historical and logical grounds, the essays probe the following: What is the most reasonable way to understand the appearance stories? Why would a God resurrect Jesus? Is the Resurrection theologically necessary? Is there enough historical evidence to make the Resurrection plausible or convincing? Did the 'Empty Tomb' really take place? To such questions, the answer is in the negative or is rendered in a nontheistic manner. Interestingly, contributors include not only philosophers, historians, and major nontheists but also New Testament scholars who view the Resurrection as a later church development. Well argued and well written, the essays are certain to stimulate further insight and reflection for both theists and nontheists. As Price states in the introduction, the book contains 'important issues of interest equally to traditional believers, skeptics, and critical theologians.'  -- Reviewed by  John Jaeger,  Dallas Baptist Univ., TX •  The Historical Jesus - Five Views    by Robert M. Price, John Dominic Crossan, ... et al.  The Historical Jesus: Five Views provides a venue for readers to sit in on a virtual seminar on the historical Jesus. Beginning with a scene-setting historical introduction by the editors, prominent figures in the Jesus quest set forth their views and respond to their fellow scholars.  On the one end Robert M. Price lucidly maintains that the probability of Jesus' existence has reached the "vanishing point," and on the other Darrell Bock ably argues that while critical method yields only a "gist" of Jesus, it takes us in the direction of the Gospel portraits.  In between there are numerous avenues to explore, questions to be asked and "assured results" to be weighed. And John Dominic Crossan, Luke Timothy Johnson and James D. G. Dunn probe these issues with formidable knowledge and honed insight, filling out a further range of options.  The Historical Jesus: Five Views offers a unique entry into the Jesus quest. For both the classroom and personal study, this is a book that fascinates, probes and engages. Robert M. Price talks about history, religion and much more. via  PineCreek   Jan. 01, 2018   The Jesus Question  A Conversation with  Robert M. Price  via The Thinking Atheist    Subjective Conscious and  The Historical Jesus  Lecture   Robert M. Price   *  *  Reviewed  by  Robert M. Price  *  * Books  by  Robert Eisenmann :    •  James, The Brother of Jesus      • The New Testament Code  Book by Candida Moss   •  The Myth of Persecution :       How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom        *  *  Recommended  by  Robert M. Price   *  *   Book  by  Lena Einhorn :  •  A Shift in Time             Robert M. Price  on   [ A Shift in Time ] :  "Lena Einhorn  shows that there is still gold in Josephus for New Testament researchers to mine. What a fascinating, striking hypothesis! In the manner described by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, she makes a fresh start from the ‘anomalous data’ which stumped the conventional paradigm and makes it central to a bold new paradigm. The gauntlet is thrown!"