Richard Carrier Lecture: How We Can Tell the Book of Acts Is a Fake History

This one is going to be good! Richard Carrier is pretty awesome. He was featured in the documentary, "The God Who Wasn't There." His website and blog (www.richardcarrier.info) is always rich and entertaining.

Drawing material from his soon-to-be-released book On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt (from the publishing house of the University of Sheffield), Richard Carrier (with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in ancient history) will survey the literary evidence that Acts is not an attempt at recording what actually happened at the origin of Christianity, but is a mostly fabricated story invented as internal propaganda. He will also survey the clues that remain indicating the original story Acts reinvents did not have a real historical Jesus behind it.

Richard Carrier is the renowned author of several books including Sense and Goodness without God and Proving History, as well as numerous articles online and in print. His avid readers span the world from Hong Kong to Poland. With a Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University, he specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism and humanism, the origins of Christianity, and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, with particular expertise in ancient philosophy, science and technology. He has also become a noted defender of scientific and moral realism, Bayesian reasoning, and the epistemology of history.