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Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity (2012), ed. by Chris Keith, is a collection of papers by NT scholars who apparently agree that the “criteria” died with the Third Quest of the late 20th century. (I’ve not read it, only heard Keith talk about it on Goodacre’s NT pod.)

Paul's ritual meal has been turned into a Last Supper with the close citation from Luke's gospel. The dependence of that on Mark is evident, so the origin of 1 Cor 11:23b-25 is based on that chain, Mark > Luke > 1 Cor. One cannot justify any other trajectory based on a linguistic analysis of 1 Cor ...

At any rate, here are some initial thoughts-- 1. The relevance of Philo seems questionable. If you're right that Paul is in lock step with a LXX tradition of speaking about The Kyrios, that's one thing. But we can't presuppose that. 2. An examination of all relevant passages seems necessary. 3. Even...

I don't want to field arguments on the above. I'd rather it stand by itself, though if there is anything unclear, I will try to clarify the thought. @spin Isn't it in the spirit of this forum to challenge and question, as well as clarify, each other's interpretations? I'm very interested in this to...

We shouldn’t omit: 1 Thss 4:15 For we say this to you by the word of the Lord (Τοῦτο γὰρ ὑμῖν λέγομεν ἐν λόγῳ κυρίου), that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will not precede those who have fallen asleep. In the Pauline Corpus, there is no basis for distinguishing a remembere...

In the discourse of ‘mythicism,’ there is a large and loud contingent who seem to think that any negative or skeptical judgment on the question of Jesus’ historicity, i.e. whether Jesus of Nazareth lived, is ipso facto tantamount to mythicism: some positive claim about how both Christianity and the ...

We shouldn’t omit: 1 Thss 4:15 For we say this to you by the word of the Lord (Τοῦτο γὰρ ὑμῖν λέγομεν ἐν λόγῳ κυρίου), that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will not precede those who have fallen asleep. In the Pauline Corpus, there is no basis for distinguishing a remembered...

Hard to imagine a group accused of odium humani generis being perceived by Romans as a seditious political movement.

But Josephus doesn’t “say the same thing” if it’s not something that Tacitus says. I don’t see the relevance of your appeal to Josephus.

I just don’t see it in the text, Giuseppe. Am I missing something?