RE: Gamaliel Never Existed
May 17, 2011 at 5:11 pm
(May 17, 2011 at 2:54 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I have an electronic version of it. If you'd like, PM me an email address and I'll send it to you.
No thanks. Any "scholar" who has
seriously looked into the sources would never come to the conclusion that Jesus was anything but a fairy tale.
Quote:He does deal with this whole question of the "proto-orthodox" re-writing history because they were the eventual winners over the gnostic groups.
How much rewriting is he willing to admit from his conservative anti-skeptical position?
Quote:In his field, the jesus myth position is like a 3d rail. Much like "Atlantis" in archaeology, anyone who espouses either theory is reduced to the status of crackpot by the establishment. These guys, after all, have a financial interest in maintaining the jesus story for the dolts. The fact that Ehrman could not come up with any actual evidence either for his position suggested to me that he was merely going along with the herd.
I agree. In fact more than that; I suspect that there is a lot of peer pressure in "Historical Jesus" circles just so that these "scholars" can have a subject to study!
