RE: Jesus: gMark's Messianic Pretender as Aristotle's Tragic Hero
December 8, 2012 at 12:16 am
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2012 at 12:23 am by Jesus.of.Nazareth.)
(December 7, 2012 at 10:58 pm)Undeceived Wrote: The gospels portray Jesus as coming to earth to willfully sacrifice his life. Where is the Achilles' heel in that? And how is the story tragic if Jesus rises from the dead?
I am not interpreting the gospels per se. As I have tried explain, I am interpreting a hypothetical, earlier version of Mark known as gMark.
(December 7, 2012 at 11:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:As a matter of fact, it seems commonly held that all of the gospels all had an earlier version.
Do you mean in the Ehrman sense that they were edited to suit doctrinal changes as xtianity grew?
Or something else?
Something like that. I should think that the changes produced the "doctrine" rather than the other way around. It seems to me that Christians just kept constructing more and more grandiose claims about Jesus. Hence, I think the Deutero-Pauline view of Ephesians where Jesus is a cosmic Christ tops even Paul's view of Jesus.
