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Toto · 03-17-2006, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by tovarij

But the quotes are still there, and they show that there isn't a total silence in Paul about the human Jesus. It seems like it takes a lot of assuming to get rid of them (they were interpolations, they refer to Jesus in another realm).

The interpolations argument can be a good one, but what is the evidence for it?

tovarij - the case for interpolations is detailed in one of the links I gave you above. Here is it again: http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=72218

Toto · 03-17-2006, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by praxeus

Interpolation arguments that have no textual base should start with a simple presumption of falsity, with a very steep evidentiary/theoretical climb from there

William Walker argues very convincingly against this position in his book, which is the subject of this thread Interpolations in the Pauline Letters by William O. Walker, Jr. There are reasonable explanations for the lack of textual variations, including church policy of suppressing alternative versions. In addition, the fact that there are no preserved single letters from Paul, only the compendium, seems very suspicious. It is not at all clear that these were actual letters, as opposed to sermons in the form of letters.

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... As the Bede article brought the only hard data to the table, isn't it interesting that he is the one attacked (although hopefully Ben was being ironic and irenic) based on the fanciful conjuctural theories of what might have been in an unknown text of a minor figure.

I can't make sense out of this. The Bede article reiterated some standard arguments. Bede is not an authority in his own right. Is there some reason it should be accepted uncritically?

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