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  • From: MillerJimE AT aol.com
  • To: corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Paul a Pharisee
  • Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 02:01:57 EDT



Although it is fashionable in scholarship to question the historical
accuracy of the gospels and Acts, has anyone considered the likelyhood that
the Rabbinic traditions may not be completely accurate about the debate
between bet Hillel and bet Shammai? To outline the differences as presented
in the later written form is not the same as reconstructing the actual debate
as it existed in the first century. After all, the gospels and Acts were
written down in the first century, somewhat closer in time to the issues they
claim to chronicle, even if they were more distant culturally. When the data
of the New Testament seems not to fit the data from the Rabbinic traditions,
the historical truth probably lies somewhere between the two sources.
Jim Miller



  • Re: Paul a Pharisee, MillerJimE, 09/25/2001

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