A good remark by Kingsley:
This may be applied on the Justin's Memoirs of the Apostles, too:
Even without Paul (and the his presumed "silences"), the fact that we have only sayings of Jesus, and not deeds of Jesus, (through all the time) before *Ev, makes it less likely that Jesus existed.
ADDENDA: Doherty applied this same argument on Q. And Dennis MacDonald agreed even:
(confession by prof Dennis MacDonald to dr. Richard Carrier)
The more sayings and sermons that the Buddha has recorded, the less likely it is that none mention any sort of life growing up.
This may be applied on the Justin's Memoirs of the Apostles, too:
The more sayings and sermons that the Jesus has recorded, the less likely it is that none mention any sort of life growing up.
Even without Paul (and the his presumed "silences"), the fact that we have only sayings of Jesus, and not deeds of Jesus, (through all the time) before *Ev, makes it less likely that Jesus existed.
ADDENDA: Doherty applied this same argument on Q. And Dennis MacDonald agreed even:
I sometimes have told my students that the real hero of the Q document may be the author and not Jesus, and Jesus may have been the opportunity for the author to show his own radical vision of Judaism. I don’t know if that’s helpful, but it could be that the real hero of the Q document is the author.
(confession by prof Dennis MacDonald to dr. Richard Carrier)
Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Wed Jan 22, 2025 12:28 pm