The Richard Carrier train wreck continues

It's instructive to see Richard Carrier's "scholarship" skewered by people on the left. These are people who share his secular outlook, but find his scholarship devious and shoddy. James McGrath is a leftwing NT scholar:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/exploringourmatrix/2014/11/richard-carrier-and-illiterate-country-hicks.html

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