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In order for me to reverse my position on "Paul", that is, "Paul's history is bogus, I would need to see credible non-apologetic information about "Paul". So far I cannot find any credible external information about "Paul". Quote:
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"Paul" must have had some prior knowledge of Jesus to claim that he was blinded by Jesus or received revelations from him. |
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I mean "Paul's" conversion is based on the the Jesus described in the Synoptics.
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BTW, does anyone know where I can get my hands on the notebooks of Srinivasa Ramanujan ? He was a mathematical genius who often worked himself into shamanic frenzy to "solve" his math problems. Some of his entries are said to be a complete word salad. Quote:
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And this is exactly my point, "Paul" was already familiar with Jesus, that is how he knew that the "revelations" were from Jesus. But it is still my view that "Paul" was fabricated late 2nd century and his "revelations" may have been taken from the "memoirs of the apostles" as mentioned by Justin Martyr. Quote:
All I can say for now, is that the epistles are propaganda, and that "Paul" appears to be fabricated late in the 2nd century based on Justin Martyr's extant writings. |
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Vorkosigan is Michael Turton. His commentary on Mark is here.
Delbert Burkett is the author of Rethinking the Gospel Sources: From Proto-Mark to Mark. T. & T. Clark International, 2004. Stephen Carlson has a review here and there is another review here by Douglas W. Geyer for the SBL. It can be previewed on Google books |
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