Description: Further DetailsTitle: Proving HistoryCondition: NewEAN: 9781616145590ISBN: 9781616145590Publisher: Prometheus BooksFormat: Loose-Leaf BookRelease Date: 04/24/2012Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 24mmItem Weight: 603gAuthor: Richard C. CarrierLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical JesusISBN-10: 1616145595Description: This in-depth discussion of New Testament scholarship and the challenges of history as a whole proposes Bayes's Theorem, which deals with probabilities under conditions of uncertainty, as a solution to the problem of establishing reliable historical criteria. The author demonstrates that valid historical methods-not only in the study of Christian origins but in any historical study-can be described by, and reduced to, the logic of Bayes's Theorem. Conversely, he argues that any method that cannot be reduced to this theorem is invalid and should be abandoned. Writing with thoroughness and clarity, the author explains Bayes's Theorem in terms that are easily understandable to professional historians and laypeople alike, employing nothing more than well-known primary school math. He then explores precisely how the theorem can be applied to history and addresses numerous challenges to and criticisms of its use in testing or justifying the conclusions that historians make about the important persons and events of the past. The traditional and established methods of historians are analyzed using the theorem, as well as all the major "historicity criteria" employed in the latest quest to establish the historicity of Jesus. The author demonstrates not only the deficiencies of these approaches but also ways to rehabilitate them using Bayes's Theorem. Anyone with an interest in historical methods, how historical knowledge can be justified, new applications of Bayes's Theorem, or the study of the historical Jesus will find this book to be essential reading.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Proving History
Title: Proving History
EAN: 9781616145590
ISBN: 9781616145590
Release Date: 04/24/2012
Release Year: 2012
Subtitle: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
ISBN-10: 1616145595
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 340 Pages
Publication Name: Proving History : Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
Language: English
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Subject: Historiography, Biblical Studies / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament, Probability & Statistics / Bayesian Analysis
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Mathematics, Religion, History
Author: Richard C. Carrier
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
