Gravitational Attraction
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Richard Bauckham and the Distribution of Names
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My work with Kamil Gregor on the reexamination of the analysis of names from Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses has been published:
Gregor, K., & Blais, B. (2023). Is Name Popularity a Good Test of Historicity?: A Statistical Evaluation of Richard Bauckham’s Onomastic Argument. Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, 1(aop), 1-32.
It is featured on the Paulogia YouTube channel and on an extended MythVision episode where the paper is explored in detail.
- The paper can be found here: https://brill.com/view/journals/jshj/aop/article-10.1163-17455197-bja10023/article-10.1163-17455197-bja10023.xml
- The dataset and analysis can be found here: https://github.com/classicsrepositories/bauckham-onomastics
