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10-07-2006, 08:56 AM
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Thompson's "The Messiah Myth"
Just did a little search and couldn't come up with anything about this. I just saw this book in a local bookshop and was wondering about buying it. It seems to say that the fully-fledged man-god of the NT should be seen purely as a literary creation, based on OT tropes, and that the quest for a historical Jesus is therefore kind of irrelevant. Seems to support the MJ idea to a limited extent.
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10-07-2006, 12:03 PM
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First discussed here
Vorkosigan reviewed it a year and a half ago: Thompson, the Messiah Myth Amazon link |
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10-07-2006, 04:35 PM
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I have his "Mythic Past" and found it very interesting indeed.
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10-07-2006, 04:51 PM
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10-08-2006, 06:30 AM
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I wonder how much Thomas Thompson's case parallels Earl Doherty's; Earl Doherty also discusses Old Testament parallels in the Gospels.
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10-08-2006, 07:07 AM
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IIUC (I haven't read the Messiah Myth myself) Thomas Thompson concentrates on the Gospels and has very little to say about Paul. Andrew Criddle |
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