#historicity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #historicity, aggregated by home.social.
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Already posted this years ago, but still keep thinking a lot about this seemingly trivial quote/insight and more generally what it means to build futures, not just the future, whilst choosing different lenses of the past and present as selective references/tools for aiming at, achieving (or even avoiding) said futures:
"Fredric Jameson establishes that in postmodernism we have experienced a weakening sense of historisity such that what is, what was, and what will be all exist as presents in time. 1970, 1991, 1992, and 2017 all happen simultaneously. Hence developers working on new projects while still coding in decades-old text editors. They write the future in the past and are made present in so doing."
(via https://www.1-9-9-1.com/, last paragraph)
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#Archaeology reveals how early Buddhist sites like #Lumbinī, #Bodhgayā, and #Sārnāth bridge tradition and #history. Material evidence, inscriptions, and stratigraphy illuminate the #historicity of #SiddharthaGautama, "the" #Buddha, and the institutional rise of #Buddhism, exceptional for its integration of faith and scientific inquiry. Here's a brief introduction incl. an overview of key sites:
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📚#RichardCarrier has just announced a new book: The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025).
As a scholarly sequel to On the #Historicity of #Jesus (2014), it argues the assumption of a historical Jesus is obsolete. Carrier applies #Bayes to case studies (Two Swords, Rom 1:3, Gal 4:4), re-evaluates #Docetism & revises Rank-Raglan odds (≈25% historicity). Looking forward to reading it (will be available end of Nov 2025).
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In his latest blog post, #RichardCarrier dissects several claims made by #BartEhrman in recent lectures on the #historicity of #Jesus. Carrier identifies numerous factual errors and argues that Ehrman continues to ignore well-documented critiques. A pointed reminder of the long-standing scholarly rift between the two.
🌍 https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/36444
#HistoricityOfJesus #BiblicalStudies #ChristianCulture #Christianity
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Vijay Iyer Trio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpuvnZtn12o
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-- Undeniable proof of Sodom & Gomorrah? --
(from Dan McClellan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlpxzT1IyQ0#archaeology #Bible #Sodom #history #historicity #scripture #apologetics
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-- Jesus of Nazareth | Documentary --
(from Gods in Docs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHQlidY2TLU#Jesus #historicity #Gospels #Bible #NewTestament #history #Christianity
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As always, brutal!
-- Testify's Failed Attempt at Rescuing Christianity --
(from Atheologica)
#Christianity #gospels #apologetics #historicity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPRo4rSSXd4 -
"Since the late twentieth century, letters in #literature have seen a remarkable renaissance. The prominence of #letters in recent #fiction is due in part to the rediscovery, by contemporary #writers, of letters as an effective tool for rendering aspects of #historicity, #liminality, #marginalization and the expression of #subjectivity vis-à-vis an 'other'; it is also due, however, to the artistically challenging inclusion of the new electronic #media of #communication into fiction."
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Every present is a former future, every future expresses present realities, every past is an articulation of present concerns #history #historicity