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Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier
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Born
Richard Cevantis Carrier

(1969-12-01) December 1, 1969 (age 55)
NationalityAmerican
EducationB.A. (History), M.A. (Ancient history), M.Phil. (Ancient history), Ph.D. (Ancient history)[1]
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley, Columbia University[1]
SpouseJennifer Robin Carrier (1995–2015)
Websitewww.richardcarrier.info

Richard Cevantis Carrier (born December 1, 1969) is an American ancient historian.[2] He is a long-time contributor to skeptical websites, including The Secular Web and Freethought Blogs. Carrier has published a number of books and articles on philosophy and religion in classical antiquity, discussing the development of early Christianity from a skeptical viewpoint, and concerning religion and morality in the modern world. He has publicly debated a number of scholars on the historical basis of the Bible and Christianity. He is a prominent advocate of the theory that Jesus did not exist, which he has argued in a number of his works.[3] However, Carrier's arguments have been controversial and unconvincing to most ancient historians,[4][5][6][7] and remains fringe.[8][9][10]

  1. ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). October 7, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
  2. ^ "Richard Carrier". Westar Institute. Jesus Seminar.
  3. ^ Casey, Maurice (2014). Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?. Bloomsbury T&T Clark. pp. 14–16. ISBN 978-0567447623.
  4. ^ Tucker, Aviezer (February 2016). "The Reverend Bayes vs Jesus Christ". History and Theory. 55 (1): 129–140. doi:10.1111/hith.10791.
  5. ^ Gathercole, Simon. "The Historical and Human Existence of Jesus in Paul’s Letters." Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 16.2–3 (2018): 183–212.
  6. ^ Gullotta 2017.
  7. ^ Marina 2022, p. 215–235 states that Richard Carrier's mythicist views have not won any supporters from critical scholars or the academic community and that mythicist theory remains as fringe.
  8. ^ Litwa 2019, p. 35.
  9. ^ Gullotta 2017, p. 312.
  10. ^ Marina 2022.

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