After demolishing the so-called 'gospels' Carrier has moved on to the epistles. This should be good.
This is just a teaser:
This is just a teaser:
Quote:As a psychologist once put it (about Paul's letter to fellow congregants in Rome, whom he had not yet met and thus can't have shared his own stories with):
Imagine for a moment that one of your friends writes you a twenty-page letter passionately wanting to share her excitement about a new teacher. This letter has only one topic, your friend's new teacher. [But] at the end of her letter, you still do not know one thing about her teacher. Yet, Paul presents the central figure of his theology this way . . . . It [seems] impossible to imagine how Paul could avoid telling one story or parable of--or fail to note one physical trait or personal quality of-Jesus. 3
