Reddit reviews there was no Jesus, there is no God: A Scholarly Examination of the Scientific, Historical, and Philosophical Evidence & Arguments for Monotheism

I see you're looking for book recommendations - I've posted this before, but you'll probably enjoy There Was No Jesus, There Is No God, which, incisive title notwithstanding, does a great job consolidating Ehrman's and Carriers' research into an objective analysis of what evidence there is for Jesus' existence and what weight we can apply to it. The book itself is a rewrite of the author's doctoral thesis, written for the layman. Despite the rewrite it is still very dry material, but if you have an academic interest in it you'll be fascinated enough to make it through.

EDIT: The most interesting part, in my opinion, was the author's deconstruction of biblical scholarship and how much less rigorously their documents are verified because of the underlying intent to reinforce the religion they follow. It gets really bad... to the extent of conjuring up hypothetical sources from which the gospels could have drawn "because they would have to have existed", and then citing the hypothetical source as evidence verifying the legitimacy of other documents. It's godawful sloppy scholarship, because it has to be; an honest objective analysis would disregard these sources entirely.

Even if we are, so what? It doesn't make us wrong.

Weighing up the evidence for the ‘Historical Jesus’

There Was No Jesus, There Is No God by Raphael Lataster

Of course it sucks. They can't even tell the truth about Jesus (ie that there was probably no historical Jesus, and even if there was one, he didn't perform miracles or rise from the dead).


https://www.amazon.com/there-was-Jesus-God-Philosophical/dp/1492234419/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=there+was+no+jesus&qid=1566128499&s=gateway&sr=8-1