You really don’t understand the origins of Christianity if you don’t understand this. “The first Christians were preaching that Jesus was a space alien, he was like Klaatu from The Day the Earth Stood Still. Richard Carrier on his book Jesus from Outer Space: Geek's Guide to the Galaxy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Needs More Zombies … It’s usually just dismissed as some sort of change or error or whatever, but it’s actually hard to explain if there was an actual historical Jesus.” And it’s definitely the same guy-Jesus of Nazareth, mother was Mary, the whole thing. He’s placed in a completely different century. So there’s this whole different narrative. is stoned by the Jewish authorities-there are no Romans, because Romans aren’t there yet-he’s stoned by Jewish authorities in Joppa rather than outside Jerusalem. It puts it right after the death of Alexander Jannaeus, in some sort of Hellenized Jewish context. “We have the complete Babylonian Talmud, and it does mention Jesus and Christians, but weirdly it always places the story of Jesus’ execution a hundred years earlier. Richard Carrier on the Babylonian Talmud: That wouldn’t fix every problem-it would turn the Roman Empire into the British Empire, basically, which is a slight improvement, but still pretty far back-but if we could get that constitutional government set in, we could have social progress as well as scientific and technological progress a thousand years earlier, and we could bypass the hell of the Middle Ages.” I feel like I could go there and convince him to institute a proper constitutional government, in exchange for certain technologies of empire, like the railroad, for instance, and the printing press. “If I had to go into the past, and it had to be the Roman Empire, I would probably pick right after the victory of Vespasian, because from everything I’ve read, Vespasian seems a very pragmatic fellow. And check out some highlights from the discussion below.
Listen to the complete interview with Richard Carrier in Episode 479 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). “So note to time travel authors: You have to come up with a universal immunity so that the time traveler who goes back is not bringing viruses that everybody is not immune to, and is immune to viruses that his body has never encountered.” “The problem with time travel is that if you went back in time, you would probably wipe out the whole population then, and they would probably kill you within months with viruses that you have no immunity to,” Carrier says. One of the biggest threats would be viruses, an issue that’s seldom tackled in science fiction. You’re basically going into the Congo with whatever’s on your back, and then you need to get your base of operations and figure stuff out, and then you can relax and wait for whatever scene or event you’re trying to watch.” There are a lot of things you’d need to sort out, because it’s basically an adventure mission.
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“You’d have to figure out the customs, the language, how to get money so you could eat. “It would take you a while to get settled,” he says.
In general Carrier thinks that science fiction authors tend to underestimate the difficulties a time traveler would face surviving in the past.
And I would use it as double duty as a historian to just document all kinds of cool stuff that’s unrelated to Jesus while I’m there, and then maybe leave it in a time capsule-bury it in a pot so it could be like a new Nag Hammadi discovery, all my time traveler books about the era.” “I would try to have inroads to all the local sects and see what’s brewing, and try to figure that out. “I’d want to sit around and wait until someone’s talking about this particular prophet,” he says. He says that finding any particular person in ancient Jerusalem, a city of more than 70,000 people, could take a lot of time and effort. But Carrier thinks that in reality, finding Jesus would be a real challenge, since all the information we have about him comes from highly unreliable sources. In Behold the Man, Karl is able to locate Jesus fairly quickly.
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