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Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion.
[129] [130] According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6:1–4 "is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology", and the "sons of God" mentioned in that passage are "celestial beings of ...
Abram Ranovich (1885–1948) – Russian scholar of classical antiquity and religion. [32] Salomon Reinach (1858–1932) – French archaeologist and historian. Samuel Maximilian Rieser (1893–1981) – American lawyer and philosopher. [47] Jonathan M. Roberts (1821–1888) – American lawyer and spiritualist medium. [48]
Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues in favor of the Christ myth theory – the claim that a historical Jesus did not exist. Price is the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
Peter Eric Enns (born January 2, 1961) is an American Biblical scholar and theologian.He has written widely on hermeneutics, Christianity and science, historicity of the Bible, and Old Testament interpretation.
The influx of Greek scholars into Italy after the fall of Constantinople, the Christian and anti-Christian Renaissance, the invention of printing, the controversial excitement caused by the rise of Protestantism, and the publication of polyglot Bibles by Cardinal Ximenes and others, gave renewed interest in the study of the Bible among Catholic ...
The Christ myth theory, also known as the Jesus myth theory, Jesus mythicism, or the Jesus ahistoricity theory, [1] [q 1] is the fringe view that the story of Jesus is a work of mythology with no historical substance.
Bultmann's skeptical approach to the New Testament has received criticism from conservative biblical scholars like Klaus Berger and Craig Blomberg. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] Form criticism, in particular, has been challenged in recent years by Martin Hengel , Richard Bauckham and Brant J. Pitre , who have reasserted the traditional theory that the Gospels ...