Corpus-Paul

[Steve Black <sblack AT axionet.com>]

> Eric Zuesse wrote:
>
> >  I shall not comment upon Mark's other objections, because they are generally
>  > of the same nature: claiming that it is acceptable to reconstruct the
> >  beginnings of Christianity on the basis of assumptions about Christian
>  > history, before one makes assumptions about the order in which the
> >  documentary evidence itself was generated. I do not deny that Mark's
> >  viewpoint is respectable among scholars; but I do assert that it is *not*
>  > respectable among scientists.

Which biblical scholars, exactly are you referring to here?? This 
sweeping statement seems to maybe describe ONLY the most conservative 
of biblical scholarship. No one I read
>  reconstruct[s] the
> >  beginnings of Christianity on the basis of assumptions about Christian
>  history.

I wonder how Crossan, or Theissen or Funk or Mack (and the list could 
go on and on) would respond to being told that they are 
reconstructing the beginnings of Xnty on the basis of assumptions 
about Xn history.

This is an example where I think you risk undermining your whole 
proposal because you over state your case and get caught up in your 
own rhetoric.
--
Steve Black
Vancouver School of Theology
Vancouver, BC
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