RE: Why did pagans not take any notice of Jesus?
February 26, 2019 at 12:25 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2019 at 12:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
None of that is part of the historical jesus candidates. Historicists and mythicists agree that these portions of the narrative are fiction and not at all informative as to the life of an actual man.
(to assert otherwise, you see, is to wholly abandon the pretense of "doing history", lol)
Their only historical value is in the description of the beliefs of a religious movement, in the case of matthew, a specific community within a broader religious movement, itself removed in time and ideology from it's typifying source material, mark. This was something that came to be believed as we see it* sometime between 70 and 110 ad.
*caveat emptor
(to assert otherwise, you see, is to wholly abandon the pretense of "doing history", lol)
Their only historical value is in the description of the beliefs of a religious movement, in the case of matthew, a specific community within a broader religious movement, itself removed in time and ideology from it's typifying source material, mark. This was something that came to be believed as we see it* sometime between 70 and 110 ad.
*caveat emptor
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