Corpus-Paul

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 11:09 AM 4/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
>R. Eisenman on James has been invoked a couple of times on this list in the
>last few days.  I kind of assumed he was another off-the-wall guy who had
>spent too much time in the sun without a hat on.  I haven't sought out
>reviews of his book in the scholarly press, but I wonder what list readers
>think of his book, and if there's a sense of how NT scholars as a group
>have received his work.  (Again, I'm a non-specialist who teaches NT.  I
>value this list as an important resource for teaching and am grateful to be
>able to pose the occasional question.)

Eisenman's views are idiosyncratic (to put it kindly) and he has been
virtually completely refuted by those who work on the DSS for a living.  His
notions of James and Jesus are so absolutely unsupportable that there is no
one, and I mean no one, who agrees with him.

best,

Jim

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