Re: Docetists = Mythicists ?
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 11:40 am
The evidence would be, according to Salm, a series of figures (as for example Yeshu ha Notzri) and texts (as some hymn in Qumran or a text not even translated in modern language, the Acta Marci) sharing a feature in common (to proclaim himself God et similia) and other attributes that make one or more individual the best candidates for the saint(s) behind the Jesus of "Paul" (Marcion).
If I had to apply the strict logic of Carrier, I would call all that yet as historicism, even if Salm would like to define it as "semi-mythicism". I think that his view would be one of the best historical reconstructions only if I had to give up to historicity of Paul the Apostle.
If I had to apply the strict logic of Carrier, I would call all that yet as historicism, even if Salm would like to define it as "semi-mythicism". I think that his view would be one of the best historical reconstructions only if I had to give up to historicity of Paul the Apostle.