R. Joseph Hoffmann, Date of Birth

R. Joseph Hoffmann

academic

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1947

Profession: university teacher, historian of religion

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Raymond Joseph Hoffmann is a historian whose work has focused on the early social and intellectual development of Christianity.
His work includes an extensive study of the role and dating of Marcion in the history of the New Testament, as well the reconstruction and translation of the writings of early pagan opponents of Christianity: Celsus, Porphyry and Julian the Apostate.
As a senior vice president for the Center for Inquiry, he chaired the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, CSER, where he initiated the Jesus Project, a scholarly investigation into the historicity of Jesus.
Hoffmann has described himself as "a religious skeptic with a soft spot for religion".