Re: Carrier, Aretas and Damascus
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 5:19 am
What is available about Paul is not much like Adam and Eve nor Historia Augusta.
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I note that you have not addressed any of my points directly. Rather, you have indirectly alleged that comparing details about Paul's life to the Historia Augusta is not useful - but you cannot even be bothered to explain why. I presume, though, that you think that the Historia Augusta is fundamentally less plausible (due to exaggerations) than the details that we have about Paul. Which account, if any, is less exaggerated, I think to be debateable (after all, Acts describes mass conversions of thousands of people to Christianity, people fighting demons, and resurrections from the dead; and the Historia Augusta, for all of its other faults, deals with events that are supported by ample coinage and contemporary sources). But I cited the Historia Augusta as evidence that people have long known how to create documents that have been mistaken by later authorities for sober histories when they were in fact propaganda of limited or no value for reconstructing the time that they describe.StephenGoranson wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 5:19 am What is available about Paul is not much like Adam and Eve nor Historia Augusta.