The Quest for the Historical Paul

[Minimalist]

If by "authentic" Tabor means that the first 7 have a certain stylistic similarity and a more or less unified theme best explained by having been written by one author (as opposed to the rest of the bullshit which is all over the place) that is one thing.  But we do not have the originals so we cannot know if those 7 were "homogenized" by a later editor but one thing that editor forgot was that there is a historical marker in 2 Corinthians - or as Donald Drumpf would say "Two Corinthians walk into a bar....." which points to a period between 84 and 64 BC.  That would blow the jesus story out of the water at least the jesus story which was later concocted by the so-called "early church fathers."