Corpus-Paul

["Mark Goodacre" <M.S.Goodacre AT bham.ac.uk>]

On 4 Jan 2001, at 10:39, leaddriver wrote:

> Did Paul go "from laying on the bosom of Jesus" to administrating
> death warrants against the believer's? Highly unlikely!

Goulder's case is based not on the idea that the historical Paul 
knew Jesus pre-Easter.  He thinks that the author of the Fourth 
Gospel "inferred" Paul's presence at Jesus' side from an ingenious 
but mistaken reading of Galatians and 1 Corinthians.  For what it's 
worth, I think it is probably the least convincing of any of Michael 
Goulder's theories, and yet -- like all of his work -- it is worth 
reading nonetheless.

Mark
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