Epimethean Wrote:Good luck with that. You'll need to be able to read Greek (or use drich's whizbang set of concordances), and will need a Classics and history background as well as a solid grounding in theology, and then, the best you'll do is what Gott's already done, which is piece together parts of a puzzle with blank cardstock and a sharpie. I think you are looking for things that are not there, and the evidence points away from Plutarch, who, as a priest of Apollo and someone truly steeped in the Greco-Roman traditions, reveres the Greco-Roman ideals of what the gods were. Your biggest problem is motivation: Plutarch would have had no motivation to write such stuff. By the way, Plutarch does not describe himself in any detail. Your contention that the author of Luke admits to using other sources means nothing by way of pointing to Plutarch, and only suggests that the author borrowed from other work. By the way, Plutarch is not much of a historian but rather a biased biographer.I have to admit, I'd like to be able to see how Plutarch is connected to the Gospels (if at all). I'm not going to fool myself though. What little I've posted on these forums is what I've gathered from doing some light reading. As I said though, I'll try and write a paper with my best case in favour and see how far I can get.
Would you say that Gott isn't a good source at all then?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
