 Price noted that the book "contains many dubious fact claims".Bart D. Ehrman Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on his ehrmanblog in 2012 and in his book published the same year, "Did Jesus Exist?The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth", lists Harpur along with other "mythicists" such as Price, but does not specifically criticize the details in "The Pagan Christ".