think about the definition of minimal historicity given by Richard Carrier. Paraphrasing it, it says in short that the same man of the epistles is also the guy meant in the gospels.Let me rephrase.....What is "Mythicism?" I'm trying to think of what Richard Carrier, Marcion, Robert Price, and the Talmud have in common, and its a riddle I just can't solve.But the Talmud placed Jesus under Janneus. The Jesus lived under Pilate was a myth, according to that Talmudic tradition.
The Talmudic Jesus breaks that definition: the Janneus's Jesus (i.e. the Jesus meant in the epistles, if Wells and Ellegard are correct) is not the Pilate's Jesus. End of story.
Answering in advance to your objection: "but the Janneus's Jesus existed, he was not a deity!":
StephenGoranson helps the mythicists here: the deity Jesus was confused with a guy under Janneus, and the first gospel "corrected" that confusion, by placing the man Jesus under Pilate. A confusion was corrected by an invention.
Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:49 pm