Toto

Hellenistic novels of the period have a lot in common with the gospels, including empty tombs.

Michael Turton who has posted here as Vorkosigan has written about this: Historical Commentary on the Gospel of Mark

Febble

Thanks.

No Robots

No. the Gospels are a previously inexistent ammé haaretz literature. They are most closely related to Talmudic midrash.

Amaleq13

Scientist? I thought you said you were a psychologist.

Febble

:banghead:

ETA: btw I'm a cognitive psychologist/neuroscientist. I test falsifiable hypotheses and crunch a lot of numbers.

Febble

Citation? And in what way close to the Talmudic midrash? Certainly I'd have said the parables were, but the entire gospels?

No Robots

How could [contemporary Jewish writers] know that [Christ] would acquire power, world power, through an entirely unexpected literary master-stroke, namely, through the occasional writings of a previously nonexistent ammé haaretz literature?—Constantin Brunner, Our Christ, p. 275.

The New Testament has no halakha and would be nothing but a midrash like other midrashim, did the personality of Christ not live in it.—op. cit., p. 218.

Febble

OK, thanks.

Can you summarise the argument? What do you mean by "The New Testament has no halakha"?

No Robots

Halaka, literally "Way (of life), from halakh = to go; the normative part of the "oral law," the religious law, especially the so-called "ceremonial law." Opposed to it is the haggada (or aggada), from hagged, to narrate; likewise, the originally oral narrative literature, especially the Midrashim—fables, legends, parables, etc.—from darash, to lecture, preach. Hence, also darshan, preacher, lecturer. On halakha and haggada, (cf. page 328).—Our Christ, editorial note, p. 218.

jgibson000

Really? Could you be a bit more specific about which novels have this topos? Do all of them? And when were the ones that have it wriiten?. And exactly what do the say about the tomb being empty -- that is to say, what point are they stressing/what fact are they underscoring when they use it?

Jeffrey