How a Fictional Jesus Gave Rise to Christianity

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Re: How a Fictional Jesus Gave Rise to Christianity

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andrewbos wrote:In fact most of the more serious Q scholars (such as Kloppenborg) don't pay much attention to layers in the Q gospel.
I have to contradict this. Kloppenborg should get full credit for the idea of "layers in the Q gospel," not Mack, who gets credit only for taking Kloppenborg's idea in his own direction.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Formation-Tra ... 0800662431

~~~ In this groundbreaking study, Kloppenborg uses genre criticism and redaction criticism to examine the composition and development of the sayings source Q. He argues that Q is composed of three compositional layers, or strata, each of which reflects certain stages of development in the Q community. ~~~

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Clive wrote:What happened to the proposal that HJ is an enlightenment invention, and that Christianity has never and still does not believe in this heretical concept, asserting that the Lord Jesus Christ, born of the Holy Spirit, died and after three days risen again, is fully god fully man.
What is the genre of the Jesus Story? To me it reads like a fifth rate Red Book of Westmarch.

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Bilbo_Baggins
  • Between TA 3003 and TA 3018, Bilbo worked on the written account of his adventures, in a book that would later be known as the Red Book of Westmarch. He also studied the Elvish language and compiled a three-volume history of the Elder Days, which he called Translations from the Elvish. He composed the poem All that is Gold Does Not Glitter for Aragorn as well as a much longer poem about Eärendil during his stay at Rivendell.


Has anyone explored the hypothesis that the genre of the canonical books of the NT is fiction?

If it is a fiction book what are the implications?




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A "cobbler of fables" [Augustine]; "Leucius is the disciple of the devil" [Decretum Gelasianum]; and his books "should be utterly swept away and burned" [Pope Leo I]; they are the "source and mother of all heresy" [Photius]
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