Added the ninety-first Freethinker Podcast YouTube Interview with Robert M. Price on Revelation, Luke, & the Qur’an (2024) to the Freethinker Podcast page under Resources on the Secular Web.
Join host Edouard Tahmizian for a nearly ninety-minute interview with Jesus mythicist and biblical scholar Robert M. Price on the Book of Revelation, the Gospel of Luke, and the Qur’an. Price fields a number of novel questions from Tahmizian, including whether Christian apologetic rebuttals to the idea that the book of Revelation falsely predicted that the Second Coming of Christ would occur within the lifetimes of Jesus’ disciples have any credibility at all, such as the rebuttal that John’s relevant Greek wording doesn’t necessary translate to “soon” in duration, but can simply mean something more like “without delay,” or perhaps “soon in God’s time” even if far off on human timescales. The discussion then turns to whether Luke can be profitably read as a historian, and if so, how well or poorly Luke investigated the historical validity of early Christian claims. Finally, the discussion wraps up with a consideration of whether Papias had any knowledge of the teachings of a historical Jesus at all before turning to whether Muslim scholars have any legitimate claim to perfect textual transmission as seen through the absence of variations in translations of the Qur’an, far superior to that of the Old and New Testaments. Check out this wide-ranging interview shedding light on parallels between Christian and Islamic apologetics!