Friday 4 May 2012

Frank Turek on the Historical Criterion of Embarassment and its Applicability to the New Testament

2 comments:

  1. This is impossible to satire!

    Thanks,

    Psi

    PS I just spent nearly 10 mins on Google and couldn't find any historians who use this principle apart from Fundamentalists - strangely other faiths use the same argument to come to the opposite conclusion.

    What is an independent seeking the truth to think?

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  2. Mark Edon -

    Even if it were the case (which it isn’t) that the criterion of embarassment is not used in other historical disciplines beyond New Testament scholarship, that should not even be relevant since historians in different fields of history often have different criteria that they use (as even the modern historian from Cambridge Richard Evans has said).

    You state that "strangely other faiths use the same argument to come to the opposite conclusion." Can you give me some examples please? Thanks.

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