Quote:The 'jesus' figure, like 'david' and 'moses' has the literary role of repeating already well-known sayings. He isn't intended to be original, or real- and according to Thompson, early christians would not have regarded him as a historical figure.
I did not know that Prof. Thompson had also taken on the jesus-crowd. Along with Niels Peter Lemche, Philip R Davies, and Keith Whitlam he is one of the the modern proponents of the Bible Is Bullshit school of thought but I thought he focused on the OT. For one reason or another Thompson is the only one of the 4 that I have not read as yet. You have now motivated me to correct that gap, Caec!
