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Assuming that pre-Gospel details about Jesus reflect an earlier and more reliable picture of Jesus than the Gospels, Jesus appeared to have been a minor apocalyptic cult leader with a few followers, whom believed via visions that Jesus had ascended to heaven. After that, legends and sayings quickly ...

The strongest evidence that Galatians postdates Acts of the Apostles If Galatians postdates the Act of the Apostles and presumably at least one of the Gospels: why is Galatians silent on the Gospel/historical Jesus? It's like I said on another thread: propose interpolations as you like, but there a...

andrewcriddle wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 6:22 amFrom an earlier generation but interesting there is Jesus the Nazarene: Myth or History? by Maurice Goguel.

Thanks for the reference, Andrew, it looks interesting.

The use of the verb to be in the past tense implies that the Pillars in the present time are not more what they were formerly. And since Paul means with "whatever" a large range of possible things they could be (from being disciples of Jesus to be founders of the sect, or prominent or ric...

I should comment also the following: Change the perspective to the Jewish Christians. How would they have framed things after Paul rejected Peter? "Initially we esteemed Paul and his gospel, but we esteem him no longer." Paul has not used the past tense only for an action of interpretatio...

My speculation, as someone who doesn't know anything about the original languages and never studied the subject: I wonder if we are missing what Paul means by James, John and Cephas being "pillars" here. WHY are they 'pillars'? Pillars in what way? I think it has to do with them being the ...

It is interesting and highly instructive to see how much convoluted and distorted and completely ad hoc are the "explanations" given to the expression "were then" in order to preserve the traditional dating of Galatians in the first century. This is a further example : However i...

obviously a preliminary step is to prove the existence of the "actor" in question by what I consider an independent evidence . That's true, and from what I've read the Quests all seem to start with the idea that there was a historical Jesus is the most reasonable option. But no-one AFAIK ...

... the widespread contention that the quest is⸺because of the lack of consensus and the irreconcilable nature of the available images of Jesus⸺an irretrievably chaotic space, or a hopeless enterprise, is unsound : when the conflictual nature of the quest and the inroad of ideological interests int...

Hegesippus apparently reported the following legend: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/hegesippus.html There still survived of the kindred of the Lord the grandsons of Judas, who according to the flesh was called his brother . These were informed against, as belonging to the family of Davi...