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Richard Carrier is a mythicist too, I've found his arguments way more convincing than any of the HJ crowd. It always seems to come down to an inference, leaning on motive or just giving too much credit to sources. I'll check out that link though, cheers Do you know what argument / evidence he uses?

A lot of people "conclude" there was a HJ but not once have I seen any actual evidence to back it up. It's always hand waving. That's why I'm trying to see if I've actually missed anything. Just saying "It can't have all been made up" isn't a very strong argument in my opinion. Because it absolutely could have all been made up.

I'm not sure what Robert M. Price claims. Originally I thought he was a mythicist, because all the less academic mythicists point to Robert M. Price as their hero in the academic world. But, surprisingly, Robert M. Price isn't actually a mythicist. Price wrote some books that seemed to promote the mythicist view. Maybe he was a mythicist when he wrote the books and later moderated his view?

Here is a blog from Tim O'Neil about the weaknesses of the mythicist view as part of a book review for "Nailed". O'Neil seems very knowledgable to me. I was on another athestic forum where he joined our discussion and changed a lot of mythicists into mootists. I wouldn't be surprised if he has visited this forum in the past. Check-out his blog. It is very good IMO.
http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2011/...-show.html

Also, I realized that my claim that almost no academics are mythicists is an overstatement. Here is a quote about the Jesus Project. This scholarly project broke-up because the mythicist scholars could not work with the mootist scholars. Obviously there must be at least a few mythicist scholars:

The Jesus Project, announced in December 2007, was intended as a five-year investigation to examine whether Jesus existed as an historical figure. The idea was that a group of 32 scholars from a variety of disciplines would meet regularly with no preconceived ideas, funded by the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, part of the Center for Inquiry.
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The project was halted in June 2009 when Hoffmann announced that in his view the project was not productive, and its funding was suspended. He wrote that there were problems with adherents to the Christ myth theory, the idea that Jesus did not exist, asking to set up a separate section of the project for those committed to the theory, which Hoffmann felt signalled a lack of necessary skepticism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Project