#Archaeology reveals how early Buddhist sites like #Lumbinī, #Bodhgayā, and #Sārnāth bridge tradition and #history. Material evidence, inscriptions, and stratigraphy illuminate the #historicity of #SiddharthaGautama, "the" #Buddha, and the institutional rise of #Buddhism, exceptional for its integration of faith and scientific inquiry. Here's a brief introduction incl. an overview of key sites:
📚#RichardCarrier has just announced a new book: The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025).
As a scholarly sequel to On the #Historicity of #Jesus (2014), it argues the assumption of a historical Jesus is obsolete. Carrier applies #Bayes to case studies (Two Swords, Rom 1:3, Gal 4:4), re-evaluates #Docetism & revises Rank-Raglan odds (≈25% historicity). Looking forward to reading it (will be available end of Nov 2025).
In his latest blog post, #RichardCarrier dissects several claims made by #BartEhrman in recent lectures on the #historicity of #Jesus. Carrier identifies numerous factual errors and argues that Ehrman continues to ignore well-documented critiques. A pointed reminder of the long-standing scholarly rift between the two.
🌍 https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/36444
#HistoricityOfJesus #BiblicalStudies #ChristianCulture #Christianity
After ten years of pretty much ignoring the arguments in the peer-reviewed studies on the question of Jesus’s historicity, Bart Ehrman has tried again to “respond” to their findings—and again proves he never really reads these studies and doesn’t know what they say. Indeed, he is stalwartly refusing now to read the actual studies and […]
-- Undeniable proof of Sodom & Gomorrah? --
(from Dan McClellan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlpxzT1IyQ0
#archaeology #Bible #Sodom #history #historicity #scripture #apologetics
The first university was built in Fez, Morocco in the 9th century by a Muslim woman called Fatima Al-Fihri.
Historians: There's no hard evidence. A Woman couldn't possibly have built a university and left no trace of Herself in history.
Hmmm, so, what you're saying is a Man must have built a university and left no trace of Himself in history?
Historians: That's absolutely what happened. There's no other possible explanation.
Just think about that.
By Humairaa, Production Assistant Over 1000 years ago, amongst a migrant community in the western districts of Morocco, the vision and investment of one woman paved the way for the founding of the world’s first university: the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco. Fatima al-Fihri, who was born in Tunisia, ...
-- Jesus of Nazareth | Documentary --
(from Gods in Docs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHQlidY2TLU
#Jesus #historicity #Gospels #Bible #NewTestament #history #Christianity
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