No, that Paul saw it as part of a cosmic drama doesn't mean it wasn't a historical event. I don't know why, but some seem to think that if the crucifixion was a historical event, Paul and others would have depicted it like a news story. Wherever they thought the crucifixion to have been, earth or heaven, it was an event of cosmic proportions, and that is how Paul depicted it.Giuseppe wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 12:25 am Droge admits the remote possibility that the passage is genuine, in the following terms:
According to our passage, then, the crucifixion of Jesus was a not a crime committed by the usual suspects (the Romans and/or Judeans), but an act perpetrated by the hostile “Archons of this Aeon.” This peculiar passion account, which, if it were Pauline, would be the earliest extant, is imagined not as an historical event at all, but as the key episode in a cosmic drama, and as such it differs fundamentally from the more familiar (i.e., historicized) crucifixion stories of the New Testament Gospels.
(cursive original, my underline)
If it was genuine, then the immediate implication is that Mythicism is 100% true (not even 2/3 as claimed by Carrier).
Here is 2 Peter 1, generally thought by mythicists to be a "historicist" construction in the name of Peter:
17. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
18. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
It's not written as a historical event. No date is given. There is no mention of "Jerusalem" or any other historical location other than "holy mount". No description of what was witnessed other than "his majesty". No description of the voice that they heard from heaven. If this was written by a "historicist", then they weren't particularly interested in historical details. Everything is of cosmic significance. If the author of 2 Peter had mentioned those who had Jesus crucified, how do you think he would have referred to them?