Corpus-Paul

["David Inglis" <david AT colonialcommerce.com>]

Hyam Maccoby wrote:

> When assessing the credibility of an account given in an ancient (or modern)
> document, one of the main considerations is whether the writer has anything
> to gain by presenting events in the way he does.  Thus Paul's account of the
> Jerusalem meeting (Galatians 2) is obviously biased to make himself appear
> to be have been there on equal terms with James to discuss matters in
> general;  whereas the account of the same event as presented by Acts 15
> shows Paul to have been distinctly inferior in status to James and to have
> been summoned to the meeting to answer charges made against him.

As I have mentioned before, IMHO a more reasonable explanation is that Gal
2 and Acts 15 describe two different meetings, and hence there is no need
to 'invent' biases on behalf of the authors to explain the differences.

Despite what various people on this list have written about the Gal 2 and
Acts 15 meetings being 'in fact' or 'clearly' the same meeting, I for one
have yet to see evidence for the 'single meeting' hypothesis that
out-weighs the simple 'two meeting' hypothesis.

Dave Inglis
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Lafayette, CA, USA