Gamaliel Never Existed

[Nimzo]

At this point, I think I'd better come clean so that those people who have been reading this thread see the point of it. I do not believe almost anything of the posts I have written in this thread - the OP (and subsequent posts) was intended to be a parody of the kind of arguments people use against the existence of Jesus and Paul. My posts contain numerous claims to knowledge which are unsubstantiated, a methodology which could bring about doubt about the existence of almost any figure in the first century, and take for granted certain rarely-held historical positions about sources which are entirely unsupported. I have provided a just-so story of how it could be possible that all of first century history was rewritten by Christian and Jewish forgers - a story which no positive evidence for it whatsoever, relying on inferences which take the available evidence out of all proportion.