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That quote is from Hengel' “Christological Titles in Early Christianity” in Studies in Early Christology ... possibly the same book you are referencing ... I think Studies in Early Christology is a separate book: Hengel has been quite prolific All this debate over Ehrman's new book simply demonstra...

Hi MrMacSon, The responders are right that the earliest sources give an exalted place to Jesus (Angel, Lord of the World, Son of God). However they are wrong that this took place after Jesus' death. Mythological characters do not die. Rather, it is probably in the Second century that later Christia...

. I’ve finished reading Ehrman’s new book (just in time as Schwartz’ book, (Agrippa I) has just turned up on inter-library loan.....) Overall, I think Ehrman has done a good job for those not up on their Christology....His view that it was visions of a supposed resurrection that started the ball ro...

Hagan's work is hardly a snapshot- he goes back to the beginnings of Imperial Rome, as well as the Jewish Asamonean family. So does Wikipedia.... Using characters common to both Josephus and the New Testament, he develops a time line, placing the crucifixion at A.D. 36. Knowing how Christian events...

"So, the next step for Ehrman? To move beyond the theological or philosophical thrust of the NT story and get out a history book! Because the next step is the historical context in which the gospel story has been set. Push Christology aside, put the Pauline epistles aside - and allow Jewish hi...

Finished the audiobook of this recently. I enjoyed it. Having read most of Ehrman's work, some of it was a bit repetitive to me, but it was good to hear the issues that he had recently changed his mind about. I think he mostly makes good cases for his points. Hi, toejam - welcome to the forum... :)...

These guys were laying the groundwork for what later became better understood as religious archetypes. The reason why Buddha, Krishna, and Jesus are similar is not because one group consciously mimicked the other. They instead speak to the commonality of human desires across many different cultures...

"So, the next step for Ehrman? To move beyond the theological or philosophical thrust of the NT story and get out a history book! Because the next step is the historical context in which the gospel story has been set. Push Christology aside, put the Pauline epistles aside - and allow Jewish hi...

Has Ehrman ever read the first chapter of the Gospel of Mark? 4John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. 5And there went out to him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessin...

DCHindley wrote: Feel free to cite authorities who can criticize the positions of historicists, as long as they are not "apologists."

DCH

haha - don't want to view the dirty laundry from the historicist side....naughty David, naughty....