Ritual aesthetic surgery

[JarekS]

Ritual aesthetic surgery or Paul the Great Hater
I honestly don't understand how you can't see the narrative fiction of the second chapter of Galatians. It is difficult to call Paul's approach to circumcision and Jewish tradition anything other than pure hate. Paul claims to be Jewish and at the same time manipulates aspects of Jewish tradition. As an author, he uses the motif of circumcision more often than all the NT and LXX writers combined, in an absolutely perverse way. He simply threatens circumcision as a real consequence for those who abandon his congregation and start listening to others. The preachers of testimony about the historical Jesus are a bunch of lunatics with knives who dream of taking care of your foreskin. The situations described at the beginning of the letter to the Galatians simply could not have occurred. Paul talks a lot about freedom from the Law because it is in his interest. He enters into an alleged agreement with these fanatics of home aesthetic surgery, giving him exclusive rights to missionary activities among the pagans. He recognizes the seniority of the pillars and at the same time ridicules them. Paul deliberately packages all competition related to the historical Jesus into the niche market of followers of Judaism.
In Judaism, circumcision of an adult Gentile is the final stage of conversion. An honorable ritual requested by the person concerned. It is preceded by conversion and adaptation to life according to the complicated and detailed Law.
In Paul's case, the conversion is trivialized and has inverted logic. Paul is surprised that Titus was not forced to be circumcised and expresses this in a public letter. As if something like this was ever expected. As if he didn't know that a circumcised pagan is not a Jew but a guy without a foreskin.
The author of the letter to the Galatians chose a perverse method of criticizing competing heroes from the early Christian tradition in order to defend the figure of the Great Apostle he created. He himself chose a hero implementing the traditional scenario - revelation and joining the new movement as a great propagator, inspired by God.
Other authors have surpassed this by developing the figure of the historical Jesus based on the testimonies of his companions. That is why Jesus' entourage is hated by Paul in his letter to the Galatians.
The historical Jesus was not preached by Paul. It was not Jesus of Nazareth. Paul avoids these stories like the plague. He does not believe in their future success, he considers them too risky. Paul's Jesus was a human not located in time and place

[Giuseppe]

Paul's Jesus was a human

Do you think that 'born from woman, born under the Law' (Gal 4:4) is not an anti-marcionite interpolation?

[JarekS]

I believe this is the original text. The letters from Pauline Corpus from Marcion are originals. The entire tradition of Paul's letters is made up - there was no circulation in the years 40-60 CE. Pauline Corpus was created after 100 CE IMHO

[Giuseppe]

I believe this is the original text.

if I understand well, you believe that 'born from woman, born under the Law' (Gal 4:4) is the original text.

[JarekS]

Yes

[Giuseppe]

My difficulty in accepting it (even if I may think of Jesus being human, but atemporal, for other reasons in Paul), is that if you think that "born by woman" is genuine, then accordingly you have to conclude that probably Marcion removed the birth from Luke (i.e. Luke precedes *Ev).

But the fact that *Ev precedes Luke is in my view so conclusive and self-evident that the opposed has to be true: 'born by woman' is interpolated in Paul against Marcion, just as the birth story was added in Luke and Matthew against Marcion.

[JarekS]

Paul doesn't know Jesus' biography. He knows Jesus was human, but he doesn't know where or when, hhe doesn't know his family or friends. He was crucified, then resurrected. Paul knows only a few of His words.
The next stage in the development of the figure of Jesus is quotations - it is not known when and where said - the Gospel of Thomas.
The narrative with the location of Jesus in time and place is what the gospels are all about. This gradual development results from logic - since he was a human being, he probably said something, and when he spoke, he probably had someone to talk to.
The biography of Jesus is a gradual creation