Hitler Homer Bible Christ

The Historical Papers of Richard Carrier 1995-2013

By: Richard Carrier

Narrated by: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier, Ph.D., philosopher, historian, blogger, has published a number of papers in the field of ancient history and biblical studies. He has also written several books and chapters on diverse subjects, and has been blogging and speaking since 2006. He is known the world over for all the above. But here, together for the first time, are all of Dr. Carrier's peer reviewed academic journal articles in history through the year 2013, collected with his best magazine articles, research papers, and blog posts on the same subjects. Many have been uniquely revised for this publication. Others are inaccessible except through libraries or paywalls. Twenty chapters include his seminal papers on the scandal of Hitler's Table Talk, the Jerry Vardaman microletter farce, and the testimonies to Christ in Josephus, Tacitus, and Thallus, as well as Carrier's journalistic foray into ancient pyramid quackery, his work on the historical and textual errancy of the bible, and more.

©1995-2014 Richard Carrier et al. (P)2014 Pitchstone Publishing

A great read

Similar to the other books of Carrier this one is entertaining, well written and performed and easy to comprehend

great telling

am a fan of history and love this book, wish it kept going for another few hours.

Awesome book that leaves you wanting more

I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I learned a vast amount of information and missed 120% more than I learned so that means that this along with Carrier’s other books are repeat listener volumes. I will be able to listen to it again and again and still learn more. I consider myself a forever learner and his books will not let me down.

As advertised...

Having read other books by Dr Carrier I approached this one with caution. Another reviewer suggested that it was heavy on the detail, and this s very true. Given that this is an anthology of academic works, this was not unexpected, but it is tough going in patches, going into minute detail when you would prefer more of a narrative. I can see why this is the case, and I enjoyed it, but some chapters are a hard slog - overall I really enjoyed it.

For those of you who have read Dr Carrier's work on religious topics, there is plenty in here on specific topics in that field. For me, I found some of the stuff on Roman culture, classes and ranks to be quite interesting, mostly because I have read an lot of books on Christianity but not on ancient civilisations. I was hoping to find Dr Carrier's book "The Christian Delusion" on Audible but it is not yet available. Having finished this book and also listened to some of the lectures online i think that many people would be interested in ancient civilisation and technologies.

not enough Hitler

Adolph Hitler is one of the 20th century's greatest enigmas. what was his true religion?