Acharya S

Factual Questions
1

For the past few months I’ve been researching the historicity of Jesus, in an effort to come to a clear conclusion and also in an effort to seperate the facts from the B.S.

Recentally I found Acharya S’s website and heard about her book and I’ve heard conflicting opinions about her scholarship. Originally I thought she was an iron-clad historical scholar, but now I’m not so sure (in fact, although I’m on the fence I’m starting to list to the side of thinking her scholarship is bad).

I decided to stick this here, in hopes that there is a clear answer (that I might have missed), instead of the Great Debates.

So with that, does anyone know if Acharya’s scholarship is credible?

2

I wonder why she’s using a false name.

3

I don’t know about her, but there is an awesome book called “Case for Christ” by Lee Strobel. A former journalist from Chicago was an atheist, and one day his wife announced she’d become a Christian.
He decides to take a journalistic approach to finding out whether Jesus existed, and how reliable accounts of him are. He talks to several experts.

4

If you want a very well-researched. Very balanced. ‘respectable’ approach, I highly reccomend:

The Roots of the Problem and the Person (A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 1) by John P. Meier (Author)

and the subsequent two volumes as well.

5

His so-called “journalistic approach” was a joke. Methinks a journalist would “interview” non-believers as well if he were really on a quest for knowledge. He clearly was not an atheist at the time he wrote the book. His approach is to ask “tough” questions and then fawn over the amazing answers. Very disappointing book for me (which I read at a family members’ request.)

6

He said himself that he wasn’t an atheist when he wrote the book. He became a Christian in the early 80s and wrote the book in the late 90s.