Books by Richard Carrier, Ph.D.

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Jesus from Outer Space: What the Earliest Christians Really Believed about Christ
Sense and Goodness without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism
On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt
The Scientist in the Early Roman Empire
Science Education in the Early Roman Empire
Hitler Homer Bible Christ: The Historical Papers of Richard Carrier 1995–2013
Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
Not the Impossible Faith: Why Christianity Didn't Need a Miracle to Succeed
Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
Jesus: Militant or Nonexistent? Two Views Compared, featuring chapters by Richard Carrier, Fernando Bermejo-Rubio, Franco Tommasi, and Robert Price
Resurrection: Faith or Fact? A Debate Between a Skeptic and a Christian (Carl Stecher and Craig Blomberg), with chapters from Richard Carrier and Peter Williams
The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave, an anthology edited by Robert Price and Jeffery Jay Lowder, including three chapters by Richard Carrier, covering the Different Body hypothesis, the Stolen Body hypothesis, and the Misplaced Body hypothesis.
The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails, a fantastic anthology edited by John Loftus with two chapters by Richard Carrier on why we shouldn't believe Jesus rose from dead, nor that Christianity was responsible for modern science.
The End of Christianity, another fantastic anthology edited by John Loftus with three chapters by Richard Carrier, on how its origins prove Christianity false, how the fine tuning argument proves God doesn't exist, and how moral truth can be discovered by science.
Christianity Is Not Great: How Faith Fails, yet another fantastic anthology by John Loftus, with two chapters by Richard Carrier, on the Dark Ages and Christian responsibility for them, and on the pagan, anti-biblical origins of American democracy and how the U.S. Constitution did not derive from but overthrew the Bible.