Robert M. Price

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Robert M. Price
Born (1954-07-07) July 7, 1954 (age 70)
Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.[1]
Alma materMontclair State University
(BA, 1976)
Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary
(MTS, 1978)
Drew University
(PhD in Systematic Theology [1981]);
PhD in New Testament (1993)[1]
OccupationTheologian
Known forViews on the historicity of Jesus
Political partyRepublican[2]
SpouseCarol Selby Price[3]
ChildrenVictoria and Veronica[1]
Websiterobertmprice.mindvendor.com

Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues in favor of the Christ myth theory – the claim that a historical Jesus did not exist. Price is the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.

A former Baptist minister, Price was a fellow of the Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who studied the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity,[4] and a member of the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance.[3] He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist.[5] Price eventually moved to a maximalist (or rather minimalist, by analogy with biblical minimalism) position in favor of the Christ myth theory, believing Jesus did not exist in Roman Galilee.

Price is also a writer, editor, and critic in the field of speculative fiction. He has written about the Cthulhu Mythos, a shared universe created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft.[6] Price was appointed executor of Lin Carter's literary estate. In 2020, an inflammatory introduction he wrote to Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! 6 anthology caused multiple authors to withdraw their work in protest. He co-wrote a book on the rock band Rush with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999).

Price is currently the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism.[7]

  1. ^ a b c Robert M. Price Archived 2010-06-08 at the Wayback Machine, The Jesus Project, Center for Inquiry.
  2. ^ "About". Republican Atheists. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
  3. ^ a b Advisory Board Secular Student Alliance, accessed April 15, 2010.
  4. ^ Tokasz, Jay. Scholars to explore existence of Jesus Archived December 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, The Buffalo News, November 30, 2008, accessed February 22, 2009.
  5. ^ gerede dasein (April 20, 2016), Being a Christian Atheist (Dr. Robert M. Price), archived from the original on December 22, 2021, retrieved October 21, 2017
  6. ^ Journal of Higher Criticism, accessed April 9, 2010; Joshi, S. T. and Schultz, David E. An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia. Hippocampus Press, p. 217. ISBN 0-9748789-1-X
  7. ^ "Journal of Higher Criticism" (PDF). March 18, 2018. Retrieved March 19, 2018.