(January 24, 2010 at 7:26 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I don't buy that. I suspect that part of the story had not been concocted yet.
If (and Paul says virtually nothing along these lines ) you were going to tell a story of someone who lived recently in a specific place, some mention of his family and his alleged home town seems like a reasonable place to start. And why is Pilate not mentioned? Surely that is the whole point of the story yet, Paul seems to know nothing of it.
Jesus may not have been crucified by Pilate. His very name has cosmic myth significance and it may not be factual. Why mention something if everybody knows about it by word of mouth? They may have not written anything in fear for his family. Hegesippus writes about Jesus' nephews.
"On Earth as it is in Heaven, the Cosmic Roots of the Bible" available on the Amazon.
