RE: For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus
February 21, 2013 at 12:33 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2013 at 12:41 pm by Minimalist.)
Quote:As I don't know Latin I can't check the untranslated text of the Epistle and see what it actually says for myself. My guess is that some people could have been influenced by what Severus said at the end of his description of Nero's spectacle.
The one thing that is absolutely true is that believers tend to see exactly what they want to see in this stuff. Roberts and Donaldson are 19th century writers and both were holy joes themselves. Scholarship has come a long way since the 1870's!
Quote:I don't know if the story about the proconsul of Asia is true but I can imagine a Monty Python sketch about it.
IIRC this is another bit that is preserved (only) in Eusebius...and therefore suspect...
But a Ministry of Silly Christians would have been a funny bit.