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- From: "Eric Zuesse" <cettel AT shoreham.net>
- To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Paul and Jesus
- Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 12:56:39 -0400
When you ask "why was there a split between Paul and the
apostles?" you assume that there indeed was such a split, which I
agree with, but which some scholars definitely do not (for example Johannes
Munck in recent decades, and also many in today's New Perspectives school on
Paul).
Likewise, your statement "that Paul might have heard many
stories about the historical Jesus, but he either rejected some of it or thought
Jesus was too narrow in his outlook," is also rather controversial, but is an
assertion that I likewise agree with.
If you would wish to see detailed documentation and
argumentation in favor of your views on these contentious matters, I'll be happy
to e-mail you, for your valued comments, the draft of a book I'm now
working on about them, which is tentatively titled either The Event That
Created Christianity or else Jesus Without the Myth (I
haven't yet decided which, and I'll especially value feedback from any in the
corpus-paul community on which title you all prefer). In this work, I'm
applying a certain legal/forensic methodology to reconstruct the historical
Jesus from Paul's seven letters as "best evidence" about him that,
nonetheless, has to be interpreted as being hostile testimony concerning
that historical personnage. Since this viewpoint seems to coincide somewhat
with your note, it might be of interest to you to see.
Eric Zuesse
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Paul and Jesus,
VINCE ENDRIS, 05/03/2002
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- Re: Paul and Jesus, Eric Zuesse, 05/05/2002
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