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Review title: Scholarship integrity restored
Product review: One of the most frustrating aspects of modern debate is when certain groups make basic conclusive assumptions and then tautologically "support" those assumptions with the appearance of scholarship. Generally they follow that up by accusing their critics of being anti-intellectual.Boyd does a very good job of pointing out the logical fallacies of the Burton Mack-JD Crossan arguments, which rely on making initial assumptions contrary to all historical records, discounting every source that the majority of scholars through history have studied in detail, leaning heavily on new "sources" (Gospels of Thomas and Peter) that appear to support their thesis of Jesus as some sort of counter-culture new age secular philosopher, and then using those assumptions to "support" their arguments.Well, I am the Wizard of Oz. If you doubt that, I point you to my arguments to that effect, and my statements, which prove it.
