In Carrier's excellent "On the Historicity of Jesus" he cites this comment about Romans:
I included the footnote for the citation because, unlike your silly-assed bible, Dr. Carrier provides his sources.
Quote:2. The Peculiar Indifference of Paul and his Christians
As a psychologist once put it (about Paul's letter to fellow congregants in
Rome, whom he had not yet met and thus can't have shared his own stories
with):
Imagine for a moment that one of your friends writes you a twenty-page
letter passionately wanting to share her excitement about a new teacher.
This letter has only one topic, your friend's new teacher. [But] at the end
of her letter, you still do not know one thing about her teacher. Yet, Paul
presents the central figure of his theology this way . . . . It [seems] impossible
to imagine how Paul could avoid telling one story or parable of--or
fail I to note one physical trait or personal quality of-Jesus. 8
8. Billy Wheaton and Joy Fuller, Hooks and Ladders: A Journey on a Bridge to
Nowhere with American Evangelical Christians (Bloomington, IN: Universe, 2009),
p. 31
I included the footnote for the citation because, unlike your silly-assed bible, Dr. Carrier provides his sources.
