Corpus-Paul

["Ron Price" <ron.price AT virgin.net>]

Frank Hughes wrote:

>I'm quite surprised that noone has brought up 1 Cor 15:1-8 where Paul very 
>explicitly mentions both the death and resurrection of Christ as what is 
>quite properly called prepauline tradition.

Frank,
  It is the view that Jesus "died for our sins" and "was raised" from
the dead were pre-Pauline traditions that I am challenging. Paul says
here that he "received" these views. But he does not say where from. In
the light of Gal 1:11-12 it is quite reasonable to deduce that the key
theological elements in 1 Cor 15:1-8 were received by "revelation"
rather than tradition.
  There is no reliable evidence that anyone prior to Paul held these
views.

> ....... it is ... part of what certainly seems to be common Christian
> tradition that one can see all over the NT.

  Yes. But why do we see it all over the NT? Because Paul's influence
was so widespread. All four canonical gospel writers were influenced
directly or indirectly by Paul's theology. The only primitive document
written by the early followers of Jesus *not* to have been influenced by
Paul was the Sayings Source, which has to be reconstructed from Matthew
and Luke. (This is a subject I've researched, but it's a topic for
another List!)

Ron Price

Weston-on-Trent, Derby, UK

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