Mental flatliner wrote: The fact that the four gospels agree in every detail means that they witnessed events and are corroborating each other.
Has Rushdoony returned from the grave?
Mental flatliner wrote: The fact that the four gospels agree in every detail means that they witnessed events and are corroborating each other.
I have to agree. Of all the potential gloves out there, this one seems to fit the best. I would also add a D12 - the contextual credibility of the hypothesis. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the host of other eschatological prophet-like figures found in Josephus shows that apocalyptic thought was in the air. So it's not like we're dealing with a hypothesis that is totally out of left-field.bskeptic wrote:I agree with mainstream scholarship on the historical Jesus (e.g., E.P. Sanders, Geza Vermes, Bart Ehrman, Dale Allison, Paula Fredriksen, et al.) that Jesus was a failed apocalyptic prophet. Such a hypothesis, if true, would be a simple one that would make sense of a wide range of data