Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?

Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island? by OfSanguineFire on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:28AM (#38162314)

Crossan’s work as a scholar and pop-history author involved a particular sceptical interpretation of very early Christianity that is not shared by most of the sceptical historians of early Christianity. So, his scepticism is particularly extreme.

There are plenty of Mediterranean historical fiction-like tales where an original grain of truth does seem promising. Besides popular cases like Atlantis, and Troy as a site, there’s e.g. Aeneas coming from Troy to Rome as a possible reflection of an Bronze Age-collapse era migration from western Anatolia to Italy bringing the Etruscan language.

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Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island? by bnralt on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:44AM (#38163281)

Crossan always seems to be well respected whenever I’ve heard him mentioned by other academics that study historical Christianity. That’s not to say that he doesn’t have some heterodox views, but they at least seem to exist within the broader academic consensus.

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