RE: JESUS <3
October 7, 2015 at 4:30 am
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2015 at 4:31 am by robvalue.)
Can't remember if I already wrote here.
No, there wasn't, because Jesus was not a name at that time.
Ignoring that, the chances of the stories being based on exactly one historical figure, no more, no less, is staggeringly small in my opinion. If you're going to allow any number of other historical figures to be rolled into the story at any particular point, then it has a reasonable chance.
However, all we could possible find out is what the gospel authors intended to write about, either a historical figure or complete fiction. They couldn't know whether they were actually writing about a real person, even if they intended to, as they had no first hand sources. They had no way of knowing how many other people had crept into the stories at various points, hence my extreme scepticism about "pure hearsay" preserving one single character.
Currently I'm considering that "Jesus the real human" was not the original intent of the story, either.
No, there wasn't, because Jesus was not a name at that time.
Ignoring that, the chances of the stories being based on exactly one historical figure, no more, no less, is staggeringly small in my opinion. If you're going to allow any number of other historical figures to be rolled into the story at any particular point, then it has a reasonable chance.
However, all we could possible find out is what the gospel authors intended to write about, either a historical figure or complete fiction. They couldn't know whether they were actually writing about a real person, even if they intended to, as they had no first hand sources. They had no way of knowing how many other people had crept into the stories at various points, hence my extreme scepticism about "pure hearsay" preserving one single character.
Currently I'm considering that "Jesus the real human" was not the original intent of the story, either.
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