Corpus-Paul

["Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT attbi.com>]

Eric Zuesse wrote:

> I would like to know what others in this forum think about this. First of
> all, is it relevant to discuss on Corpus-Paul issues regarding Jesus's
> historicity? And secondly, was Loren saying no to this question: that such
> issues shouldn't have been discussed in this forum?
>

I do not think that we need to pursue the matter of what Lorren did or did 
not say.

But speaking as moderator, I note the following:

Given what is set out in our List description and protocols, as well as the 
assumption
that is accepted as a given on C-P, namely, the existence of Jesus, any 
discussion
which strays into Historical Jesus studies **without reference** to the issue 
of the
continuity or discontinuity between Jesus and Paul, is then,  something that 
should be
moved to another List.  To put this another way: A discussion which focuses 
solely on
the issue of the historicity of Jesus is not appropriate here..

However, having said this, I think a discussion of how the Jesus "Mythers" 
have used
**Pauline material** in making their "case" for "no historical Jesus" is 
something that
may be pursued here.

Jeffrey Gibson

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