Richard Carrier has a PhD in Ancient History and the History of Philosophy from Columbia University. He specialises in the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, particularly ancient philosophy, religion, and science, as well as the origins of Christianity. He is a member of the Westar Institute, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the Global Centre for Religious Research. He is a well-known advocate of atheism and freethought and one of the foremost scholars advancing the ‘mythicist’ view of Jesus’s historicity.
In this three-part interview, of which this video is the first instalment, I interview him on his trilogy of books about the historicity (or lack thereof) of Jesus: Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus (2012), On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt (2014, revised edition 2023), and The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025). I recommend two lectures by Carrier for some relevant background viewing: see here and here. You can also find the anti-mythicist view, as propounded by Bill Cooke in a recent Freethought History Webinar for the Freethinker, here.
Find out more about Richard on his website, here.
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