RE: Embellishments in the Gospel of Mark.
March 28, 2019 at 1:49 pm
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2019 at 1:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
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The hypothetical historical character of the hypothetical historical document q....was not. Nor was he a carpenter or the son of a carpenter. Nor was he a raving apocalyptic loon. Nor was he a seditious anti-roman provacateur, nor did he speak at the temple, nor was he ever arrested or crucified by pilate or any other.
He was a smart, well spoken, well educated, and lucid secular philosopher of a greek tradition..who, like many others in that tradition, wandered around galilee...but probably wasn't born there.
The hypothetical historical character of the hypothetical historical document q....was not. Nor was he a carpenter or the son of a carpenter. Nor was he a raving apocalyptic loon. Nor was he a seditious anti-roman provacateur, nor did he speak at the temple, nor was he ever arrested or crucified by pilate or any other.
He was a smart, well spoken, well educated, and lucid secular philosopher of a greek tradition..who, like many others in that tradition, wandered around galilee...but probably wasn't born there.
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