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4 Jewish Word Plays behind the Word Becoming Flesh / 3 … (Charbonnel: Jésus-Christ, Sublime Figure de Papier)

This post is detailed. But it is getting down to the nitty gritty of a case for the midrashic creation of the Jesus figure in the gospels. Performative utterance: In the philosophy of language and speech acts theory, performative utterances are sentences which are not only describing a given reality, but also changing the social … Continue reading “4 Jewish Word Plays behind the Word Becoming Flesh / 3 … (Charbonnel: Jésus-Christ, Sublime Figure de Papier)”

Making of a Mythicist, Act 3, Scene 1 (Too Strange!)

Continuing Thomas Brodie’s Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery Part III The Third Revolution: Literary Art, Including Form/Genre Becoming aware of how biblical writers redesigned their materials into a new work of art Chapter 8 . Dramatic happenings in the next room Old Testament studies were much more action-packed in … Continue reading “Making of a Mythicist, Act 3, Scene 1 (Too Strange!)”

Oral Tradition Behind Gospels and OT: Unfounded, Unworkable and Unnecessary

As signalled in a comment on my recent post on the single authorship of Genesis to 2 Kings, I have decided it best to back-track a little before continuing that series and posting a little on how oral tradition came to be a ruling paradigm among Biblical scholars and why an increasing number of scholars, … Continue reading “Oral Tradition Behind Gospels and OT: Unfounded, Unworkable and Unnecessary”