JarekS wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:46 am
1 Ti is against all the gospels
yet 1 Timothy mentions Pilate who is part and parcel of the same fiction hence hardly that put the epistle against
all the gospels.
The myths may be the Gnostic mirror of the Lukan and Matthean genealogies: the speculations on the emanation of the Aeons etc.
Even if the condamned "myths" are the gospels
tout court, hardly they can be "all" the gospels since Pilate makes his first appearance (in connection to Jesus) in a (proto-)gospel, not in Josephus.
My current theory on the introduction of Pilate is that a releaser of the body of Jesus was necessary in order for Jesus have an anti-docetic body, and
PLT is the Semitic root for "to release/to be released".
Alternatively, Pilate was introduced because Simon Magus and/or Dositheus and/or Menander was confused (right or wrong) with the unnamed Samaritan Impostor slain by Pilate, and by collateral effect also Jesus was dated under Pilate.
In both the cases, the docetism is the factor that lies behind the introduction of Pilate in the story.