RE: Chief Priests and Roman Authorities
February 24, 2022 at 11:16 am
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2022 at 11:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Which Jesus?
The mythicist position is that there was a christ myth before there was a historic jesus, if we can reasonably identify any singular historic person in the character of jesus of new magic book, in the first place. Oddly enough, the historicist position doesn't technically disagree, and even helps to build that case. Even historicists acknowledge that we're dealing with a composite character whose deeds and attributes are, at least to some extent, written to fit an ideology, rather than a news story from the galilean front.
The difference between the two positions, is that historicists think that the christ myth came after and was based on some actual singular historic person, however mangled that persons actual character happens to have been (to the point where there's no agreement between historicists whatsoever on who that was). The mythicist position is that any actual people who might have been used for content came after the myth, and whatever might have been included about them was only included insomuch as it helped put that myth in a relatable and marketable setting.
The mythicist position is that there was a christ myth before there was a historic jesus, if we can reasonably identify any singular historic person in the character of jesus of new magic book, in the first place. Oddly enough, the historicist position doesn't technically disagree, and even helps to build that case. Even historicists acknowledge that we're dealing with a composite character whose deeds and attributes are, at least to some extent, written to fit an ideology, rather than a news story from the galilean front.
The difference between the two positions, is that historicists think that the christ myth came after and was based on some actual singular historic person, however mangled that persons actual character happens to have been (to the point where there's no agreement between historicists whatsoever on who that was). The mythicist position is that any actual people who might have been used for content came after the myth, and whatever might have been included about them was only included insomuch as it helped put that myth in a relatable and marketable setting.
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