Posted: Jan 20, 2017 7:18 am
duvduv wrote:
For those who believe that the Jesus/NT universe existed in the first century, what does it mean to those people that there is no evidence for the existence of Nazareth in the first century??
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DavidMcC wrote:
Presumably you accept that Jerusalem and Bethlehem existed then, so why not Nazareth as well?
What's so special about Nazareth that it alone would not have existed?
The jesusneverexisted.com page on Nazareth contains a lot of basic, but older information; referring to René Salm's first book The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus (2007/8). Salm received quite a lot of flak over that book (i.e. people attacking him without addressing points he had made in the book), so he responded with yet another book addressing some of the spurious points raised -
'NazarethGate: Quack Archeology, Holy Hoaxes, and the Invented Town of Jesus', 2015.
- and 2. where Salm's responses to things Bart Ehrman said in a recent debate he had with Robert M Price:
On his mythicistpapers site, Salm also highlights a video (also available at http://www.nazarethmyth.info/) -
- http://www.mythicistpapers.com/2016/10/07/new-nazareth-video-october-2016/
"This data-rich video presents a concise review of the Nazareth (non-)evidence for a town in the time of “Jesus.” The power-point format with 18 slides (beginning at minute 10) includes the bogus 2009 claim of a “house from the time of Jesus” (even with an astonishing invented wall); the forgery of the Caesarea Inscription mentioning Nazareth (universally considered authentic and often dated to the first century CE); the shockingly early dating of scores of tombs, pottery shards, and oil lamps; water worn (and completely unreadable) coins from Mary’s Well groundlessly attributed to Hellenistic times; and other remarkable material from both my Nazareth volumes. A must see, particularly for those who have not yet read my books. (1 hour)—R.S."
DavidMcC wrote:
edit: I think Jesus existed, but was nothing like as portrayed in the NT. He was an anti-Roman activist, and the Romans were brutal with such people.
- In other words, the Jesus portrayed in the NT is not the Jesus DavidMcC believes in (or vice versa).