gnosis92

Would there be any way to sponsor/organize a debate between Price v.s Ehrman over a historical Jesus issues? Say via Paul Kurtz secular humanist agencies.

Or for that matter, Crossan v.s Doherty? Or a Price & Doherty v.s Crossan & Ehrman?

Obviously who you think will win depends on your current view of historicity of Jesus now.

topics to include:
parallels to other religions,
"independant multiple attestations"
What Paul really says about a HJ,
contextual credibility of Jesus, versus a purely spiritual figure, in first century Palestine,

etc.

Chris Weimer

I didn't see anything in Price's work that gives a thumbs up to Doherty's readings. Where does he do this, and why would be Doherty's debate partner?

Likewise, Erhman and Crossan don't exactly agree on everything either.

Toto

Debates are a form of performance art, not a form of scholarly inquiry. Price engages in debates with Christian apologists, because he is a deconverted evangelical apologist, and evangelical groups keep organizing debates to try to convince their followers that they are intellectually respectable.

(If you ever get a chance to hear Robert Price, take advantage of it. He puts on a great show.)

Ehrman debated William Lane Craig once, to point out his bad use of history, but I don't know that he normally does debates.

The people that you mention would probably prefer the format of a discussion panel. But they would probably prefer to sit in their offices and do research.