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An Important Recap on Modern Scholarship

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An Important Recap on Modern Scholarship
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RE: An Important Recap on Modern Scholarship
August 30, 2014 at 1:36 pm
To quote from the article:

Quote:“The historical Jesus (if there was one) might well have been a messianic king, or a progressive Pharisee, or a Galilean shaman, or a magus, or a Hellenistic sage. But he cannot very well have been all of them at the same time.” John Dominic Crossan of the Jesus Seminar grumbles that “the stunning diversity is an academic embarrassment.”

Jesus can be whatever a believer wants him to be...whenever he needs him to be it.

Hard to differentiate 'jesus' from a lump of silly putty in that regard.
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An Important Recap on Modern Scholarship - by Minimalist - August 30, 2014 at 12:58 pm
RE: An Important Recap on Modern Scholarship - by Baqal - August 30, 2014 at 1:09 pm
RE: An Important Recap on Modern Scholarship - by Minimalist - August 30, 2014 at 1:36 pm
RE: An Important Recap on Modern Scholarship - by Natachan - August 30, 2014 at 8:31 pm
RE: An Important Recap on Modern Scholarship - by Minimalist - August 30, 2014 at 11:15 pm
RE: An Important Recap on Modern Scholarship - by Mudhammam - August 31, 2014 at 12:15 am

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