(note 297 of The Framework of the Story of Jesus, my bold)
For Schmidt, the silence of Jesus before Pilate proves that the trial before Pilate is probably historical.
Now, according to Mythicist Jean Magne, the oldest Gospel story had only the following episode as 'Passion story':
“Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate.
“You have said so,” Jesus replied.
He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
The point that Magne probably wanted to do, I have discovered after, even if Magne didn't reveal it explicitly, is that a such nucleus was based on an anti-demiurgist myth:
So the evidence of a presumed historicity of the Jesus's silence before Pilate vanishes entirely.Giuseppe wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:22 pm I note another extraordinary "coincidence":
1 Corinthians 2:6-8 On the origin of the world 115,23 Oldest Gospel Passion Story We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age,
who are coming to nothing.
No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden
and that God destined for our glory before time began.
None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Then, when the seven rulers came, they saw him and were greatly disturbed.
They went up to him and seized him. And he (viz., the chief ruler) said to the breath within him, "Who are you? And whence did you come hither?"
It answered and said,
"I have come from the force of the man for the destruction of your work."
When they heard, they glorified him. So they bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
“Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate.
“You have said so,” Jesus replied.
He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
The enigmatic answer of Jesus, "tu dices", an answer that makes Pilate fear the presumed Jesus's pretension to Israel's throne (so: sedition), is the Judaization of the answer given by the Primal Adam to the 7 Archons: "I have come from the force of the man for the destruction of your work."
Hence: the crucifixion as exaltation in the original myth.