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[Corpus-Paul] OFF LIST: Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or Cultic Sacrifice?

From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT comcast.net>
To: Corpus-Paul <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Corpus-Paul] OFF LIST: Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or Cultic Sacrifice?
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:35:56 -0500

Loren Rosson wrote:

>
> But I think Seeley has a lot of this right. Paul seems
> to have had the Noble Death in view, especially by the
> time he wrote Romans, in depicting Christ in polemical
> opposition to martyrs and philosophers, albeit as a
> mythical martyr himself.

Ha! You think?

Glad to hear you read the book and that it got you thinking. Does your
critique stand when it is read along side of the data I present in my
article on the dying for formula?

Jeffrey
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[Corpus-Paul] Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or Cultic Sacrifice?, Loren Rosson, 04/05/2004
- [Corpus-Paul] OFF LIST: Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or Cultic Sacrifice?, Jeffrey B. Gibson, 04/05/2004
  - Re: [Corpus-Paul] OFF LIST (?): Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or Cultic Sacrifice?, Loren Rosson, 04/05/2004
  - Re: [Corpus-Paul] apologies OFF LIST: Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or CulticSacrifice?, Jeffrey B. Gibson, 04/05/2004
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or Cultic Sacrifice?, iscott2, 04/05/2004
  - Re: [Corpus-Paul] Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or Cultic Sacrifice?, Loren Rosson, 04/06/2004
    - Re: [Corpus-Paul] Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or Cultic Sacrifice?, Harold R. Holmyard III, 04/06/2004
    - Re: [Corpus-Paul] Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or Cultic Sacrifice?, iscott2, 04/06/2004
      - Re: [Corpus-Paul] Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or Cultic Sacrifice?, Loren Rosson, 04/07/2004
- RE: [Corpus-Paul] Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or Cultic Sacrifice?, David C. Hindley, 04/09/2004
  - RE: [Corpus-Paul] Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or Cultic Sacrifice?, Loren Rosson, 04/10/2004
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- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Paul's Christ: Noble Martyr or Cultic Sacrifice?, Jim West, 04/05/2004