Index: B
- Baal
- Ancient pagan deity, sometimes sourced for the pagan Christ-myth idea; see here.
- Bacchus
- Greek god of wine, source of pagan copycat charges. Did the figure of Dionysus (Bacchus) influence Christianity?
- Badawi, Jamal
- Muslim apologist. See responses here. [Off Site]
- Baigent, Michael
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- Review of The Jesus Papers
- Review of Racing Towards Armageddon
- Balder
- Alleged pagan copycat Christ. See here.
- Baptism
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- Barabbas
- Is the account of Barabbas and the Passover custom realistic? -- also addresses some of the funnier ideas about this fellow, like his name meaning "son of the father"; part of a larger piece on the trial of Jesus
- Barker, Dan
- Ex-minister, author of Losing Faith in Faith.
- Bauer Hypothesis
- A foundational theory of wild diversity on early Christianity, now seen mutated into the "trajectories" paradigm.
- Beddru of Japan
- One of a list of alleged "saviors" from Kersey Graves' work. See here.
- Bell, Rob
- Emergent type preacher. Comments on Velvet Elvis and What We Talk About When We Talk About God.
- ben-Jochanan, Yosef
- Part of a coterie of revisionist historians whose ideas are based in race. General Critique.
- Books to Read
- Before Color Prejudice by Frank Snowden [Buy this book from Amazon.com]
- Blacks in Antiquity by Frank Snowden [Buy this book from Amazon.com]
- Black Athena Revisited by Mary Lefkowitz [Buy this book from Amazon.com]
- Not Out of Africa by Mary Lefkowitz [Buy this book from Amazon.com]
- ben Tziyyon, Mordochai
- Jewish anti-missionary. See analysis/comments here.
- ben Yehoshua, Hayyim
- Popular Christ-myther. See analysis/comments here.
- Bercot, David
- Well-intentioned but nevertheless error-prone Christian writer. Some comments here.
- Berman, Timothy
- Amateur Mormon apologist who needs to get back in the ocean where he belongs. His main argument against my material is that he thinks it is biased (the truth usually is) and it makes him think too hard. See responses within articles he refers to.
- Berry, Robby
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- Bevere, John
- Profile here. Comments on leadership here.
- Beversluis, John
- Former admirer of C. S. Lewis turned apostate. See here.
- "Bible Wheel"
- Unqualifying apologetics mechanism. Comments here.
- Bidstrup, Scott
- Skeptic.
- Boghossian, Peter
- Comments here.
- Book of Jashar
- Alleged lost book of the Bible. The OT "Lost Books" -- part of a larger article on the OT canon.
- Book of the Wars of Jehovah
- Alleged "lost book" of the Bible. The OT "Lost Books" -- part of a larger article on the OT canon.
- Borg, Marcus
- Jesus Seminar ally Marcus Borg offers a sanitized Jesus for the age.
- Boylan, Robert
- Underachieving blogmaster of Scriptural Mormonism who doesn't realize I've upgraded my material in the last 20+ years. For his replies on material in The Mormon Defenders (apparently borrowed without permission from Kevin Graham, and which I answered in 2005) please contact me at jphold99@gmail.com -- I still have my old responses to Graham's project, but have not posted them since Graham took his project down. For a reply on the Semitic Totality Concept, see my updated article here. For a reply on Gen. 20;13, see note added here.
- Brain, Marshall
- Founder of site once called, "Why Does God Hate Amputees" and now retitled "Why Won't God Heal Amputees". Comments here .
- Bucaille, Maurice
- Muslim apologist. See responses here. [Off Site]
- Buckner, James
- Atheist with a list of questions. Answer key here.
- Buddha
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- Bultmann, Rudolf
- Founder of modern form criticism of the Bible. General critique
- Burgon, John W.
- Prominent critic of textual-critical methods from the late 1800s, often used by Majority Text advocates. Some comments here.
- Burke, Tony
- Author of an article on "heresy hunting". Comments here.
- Burpo, Colton
- Comments on Heaven is for Real
- Bushby, Tony
- Author of The Bible Fraud. Comments here.
- Butz, Jeffrey
- Review of The Brother of Jesus
- Buzzard, Anthony
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Review of The Doctrine of the Trinity: Christianity's Self-Inflicted Wound
