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 | #98557 in Books |  Prometheus Books |  2012-04-24 |  2012-04-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.30 x.96 x6.28l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 340 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| An excellent survey of the state of Jesus studies|By Customer|An excellent survey of the state of Jesus studies, the problems with its methods, and a promising solution. As a mathematician, maybe I'm biased, but I think every field of inquiry--even in the humanities--benefits from becoming "mathier." And, as Carrier points out, the underlying framework of Bayes' Theorem is a| |"[C]arefully exposes what happens when sound methodology meets biblical studies. . . . Proving History is a brilliant lesson in the proper proportioning of belief to evidence. Even minimal attention to Bayesian probability theory reveals just how much of Jesu

This in-depth discussion of New Testament scholarship and the challenges of history as a whole proposes Bayes’s Theorem, which deals with probabilities under conditions of uncertainty, as a solution to the problem of establishing reliable historical criteria. The author demonstrates that valid historical methods—not only in the study of Christian origins but in any historical study—can be described by, and reduced to, the logic of Bayes’s Theorem....

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