Tom Bullock

Very much interested in ancient history and early Christianity. Not afraid of changing my preconceptions.

[Tom Bullock @TomBulloc]

- Academic gatekeepers are often the last people to acknowledge information that challenges their bias -

[Tom Bullock @TomBulloc]

@JosephAPWilson1 @HenryDavisCC @TimONeill007 Criticizing Davis for citing Sussman’s updated typology while accepting O’Neill’s older view is a double standard. Her early work is “authoritative” when it fits Nazareth, “uncertain” when it doesn’t. Especially when you've admitted you're not qualified to judge the evidence.

[Tom Bullock @TomBulloc]

@JosephAPWilson1 @HenryDavisCC @TimONeill007 Your original tweet claimed confidently claimed the Nazareth Myth had been “put to bed” based on archaeological reports. Those reports are very misleading. So the claim has not been “put to bed”. You are avoiding the evidence.

[Tom Bullock @TomBulloc]

@JosephAPWilson1 @TimONeill007 @HenryDavisCC Simply put, yours and Tim’s comments, although having a bit of legitimate criticism, are framed in a dismissive, rhetorical, and emotional way - more insult than academic critique. The exaggerations (“Easter egg hunt”, “weak amateurs”) are not about real methodological flaws.

[Tom Bullock @TomBulloc]

@JosephAPWilson1 @HenryDavisCC @TimONeill007 Rubbish. His citations are consistent and not unintelligible. None prevent a reader from understanding a source or checking it. The issue with Tim’s Nazareth article is it is outdated and misleading, just like Dark’s and Yardenna’s reports. Insults from Tim don’t change that.

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@JosephAPWilson1 @HenryDavisCC If most readers DO NOT flag citations or complain about them, then the issue is not an understanding one. You seem to be trying very hard to discredit unfairly the evidence presented by @HenryDavisCC . Your initial tweet sounded so confident, now you’re “deferring”. Hmm…

[Tom Bullock @TomBulloc]

@JosephAPWilson1 @HenryDavisCC His key sources are absolutely checkable. You are being very misleading. And you know full well what his question means. He’s referring to people like Tim O’Neill who you support but constantly uses an academic individuals’s status to argue something. Double standard.

[Tom Bullock @TomBulloc]

@JosephAPWilson1 @HenryDavisCC Nothing wrong with his citations. I’ve been able to check them. The issue as I see it is you cannot argue against his evidence and so resort to petty tactics. You were confident the “myth” was put to bed, but now you “defer”.

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@HenryDavisCC @JosephAPWilson1 : Accuses Davis of using argument from authority whilst also using argument from authority in his tweet…
@JosephAPWilson1 Can’t/won’t argue against Davis’s evidence, so shifts goalposts…

@JosephAPWilson1 Claims Nazareth myth “put to bed”…yeah, ok…

[Tom Bullock @TomBulloc]

@MemoryMedieval Amazing what obscene amounts of wealth can produce…

[Tom Bullock @TomBulloc]

@KemiBadenoch Why attack the most vulnerable? Why?

MP’s get pay rises for being…MP’s, even if they’ve done a crap job (which is most of the time) The royal family get a pay rise for being…royal, even though they do nothing practical.

It’s sick.

[Tom Bullock @TomBulloc]

@implausibleblog Because she’s an upper class asswipe.

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@ABSOLVTEGG @georgegalloway @RoyalFamily You do realise that brand finance do not provide sources for the claims and the nations tourist board had to stop using your statement because it was a lie. Also, if the royals do bring in bIlLiOnS…where is it? Do tell.

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@JackxJewell They can be. Which is why you are easily walking on one…🤷‍♂️

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@theAliceRoberts You are critical in this book, but not consistently so. You, like other ‘critical’ researchers have again falling back on “the earliest evidence for Christianity is ‘Paul’”. What external evidence controls do you provide for “Paul”? See Nina Livesey book.

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@romanhistory1 And this is why the war happened. FYI, the evidence in the book has NOT been refuted, by anyone, just ignored by historians, whose job it is to be open minded and follow the evidence. Well that’s what they claim…
https://t.co/S7RZj0DsmP

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@AndersonAfDMdEP You want to honour a man who saw kids killed by shooting as justified and believes stoning gays to death is justified because the Bible says so?…
You are lovely….
https://t.co/vivzimgjl5

[Cornbread Mafioso 🖕🏾 @Soulful1865]

Charlie Kirk slick tactics dont work against intellectual college kids at Cambridge. SHUT DOWN again, and with laws of the Bible.

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@piersmorgan What a shock, Catholic Morgan supports an evangelical Christian moron who believed child deaths from shooting were justified and agreed with the Bible that gays should be stoned to death. Lovely man he was…
https://t.co/vivzimgjl5

[Cornbread Mafioso 🖕🏾 @Soulful1865]

Charlie Kirk slick tactics dont work against intellectual college kids at Cambridge. SHUT DOWN again, and with laws of the Bible.

[Tom Bullock @TomBulloc]

@Concordia1111 @Danny456080 That’s why you follow the evidence and not make the evidence fit a premise.

[Tom Bullock @TomBulloc]

@patfield @GHRSuffolk The children in poverty are crying. Go away. Blocked.

[Tom Bullock @TomBulloc]

@patfield @GHRSuffolk “Tell it to Starmer” thanks for the advice, I will.

“Or get a job!!!” I have a job. I’d like Kate’s “job” that requires no skills at all but pays millions.