Or, Marcion did it and he seems to be the dividing point. Prior to the mid second century there isn't much, if anything written about "Paul."
If the core of these letters began with some sort of eschatological group which was being chased out of Jerusalem by King Alexander Jannaeus in the first century BC what does it have to do with any first century AD "jesus?"
First and Second Corinthians are usually considered to be among the "authentic" epistles...yet, the second century Greek geographer, Pausanias, made an extensive catalog of religious sites in Corinth at the time of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius and has nothing to say about any Jew or Christians in Corinth...a full century after "Paul" claims to have been there ministering to poor Christians who were set upon by Jews.
If the core of these letters began with some sort of eschatological group which was being chased out of Jerusalem by King Alexander Jannaeus in the first century BC what does it have to do with any first century AD "jesus?"
First and Second Corinthians are usually considered to be among the "authentic" epistles...yet, the second century Greek geographer, Pausanias, made an extensive catalog of religious sites in Corinth at the time of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius and has nothing to say about any Jew or Christians in Corinth...a full century after "Paul" claims to have been there ministering to poor Christians who were set upon by Jews.
