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The Empty Few
Atheists Beyond the Pale
James Patrick Holding
It's the magilla project from the Skeptics for this year: Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave edited by Robert Price and Jeff Lowder. But it's not as big a deal as you may think, because a good chunk of it is old news -- including some we have done before -- and as a whole, the old news hasn't changed much or at all in the way of content.
Some may say, "Gee, some of these replies are real short!" Yep, they are -- because in a couple of cases, the arguments were so wild that no more was needed than a short response; but also in a couple of cases, I do agree that the arguments being answered were not good enough to defend.
Introduction by Robert Price -- comments
- Is There Sufficient Historical Evidence to Establish the Resurrection of
Jesus?, Robert Greg Cavin -- this essay originally appeared in the academic periodical, Faith and Philosophy. Reply here
- The Resurrection As Initially Improbable, Michael Martin -- this essay is a compiliation of material from several articles in the journal Philo. Reply here
- Why Resurrect Jesus?, Theodore Drange -- Reply here
- Apocryphal Apparitions: 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 as a Post-Pauline Interpolation, Robert M. Price -- yes, it's what we already debunked here
- The Spiritual Body of Christ and the Legend of the Empty Tomb, Richard
Carrier -- Part 1; Part 2
- The Case Against the Empty Tomb, Peter Kirby II -- this has appeared on the Secular Web, though I have not answered it until now.
- The Burial of Jesus in Light of Jewish Law, Richard Carrier -- because Glenn Miller previously answered an earlier version of this here I will give some time for Miller to take it up if he so desires
- Historical Evidence and the Empty Tomb Story: A Reply to William Lane
Craig, Jeffery Jay Lowder II -- I find in this chapter nothing not found in Kirby's or in other materials in this book, so it will receive no specific reply
- Taming the Tehom: The Sign of Jonah in Matthew, Evan Fales -- a version of this appeared in the Journal of Higher Criticism in 2001. Comments here
- The Plausibility of Theft, Richard Carrier -- this appeared in the Journal of Higher Criticism in Fall 2001. Reply here
- Financial Aspects of the Resurrection, J. Duncan M. Derrett -- originally appeared in The Journal of Higher Criticism, Spring 2003. Reply here
- By This Time He Stinketh: The Attempts of William Lane Craig to Exhume Jesus, Robert M. Price -- yes, same one we already debunked here
- Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli on the Hallucination Theory, Keith
Parsons -- some material taken from Parsons' prior work in Why I Am Not a Christian. Comments here.
- Swinburne on the Resurrection, Michael Martin -- this is an expansion of a book review that appeared in the periodical Religious Studies. We have a reply that includes comments from Dr. Swinburne plus my own reflections.
- Reformed Epistemology and Biblical Hermeneutics, Evan Fales -- this appeared in the journal Philo in 2001. Because it is addressed to a position I do not hold, I will not be offering a reply.
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