Resolved: Jesus did not exist

[Diogenes_the_Cynic]

@septimus

Responding to …
… Diogenes writes

I’d certainly consider the nativity dates to be parts of the “infancy narratives”, so wonder if Diogenes’ browser skipped a message or something.

I certainly missed it if you explained the contradiction.

In Diogenes’ model, does he think a biographer would have accompanied Jesus and pestered him about birth details??

No, I would suppose that they would make things up, or try to infer them from whatever vague indications they could gather.

(BTW, I clicked on the link to Cecil’s articles and found Our Leader’s articles on Bible dates and authorship useful. “Cecil” doesn’t seem to approve of the Exodus=Hyksos equation. I asked Diogenes about this before and got a response where the ratio of pontification to citation was infinite! I consider the question still open, but if Diogenes wants to take another shot, please consider a response with only URL’s. … URL’s to archaeological fact, not more pontification!)

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I have no idea what you’re talking about. I di not believe that the Exodus = Hyksos. I believe that the myth is probably base on a garbled memory of it, though, as does the consensus of modern scholarship. I’m not sure what this has to do with this thread, though.