To this point I have enumerated everything that Paul explicitly says about what Jesus said, did, and experienced during his earthly life. The driving question is the one that I turn to now and in the next post. Why didn’t Paul tell us *more*? I’ve long been fascinated by this question, and even though I’ve thought about it for well over thirty years, I’ve never decided on what I really think. There are just too many counter-arguments for every perspective that I’ve heard or thought of! In these two posts I want to lay out three of the main options. If you think of others that need to be aired, feel free to make a comment. I have taken the following from my textbook The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. Read by Petra Ortiz
Dr. Ehrman compares crucifixion scenes in Mark and Luke to ask why the latter portrays a self-assured Jesus unlike Mark, his source. Read by...
Evangelical scholar Kurt Jaros explores how some critics of Misquoting Jesus conflate issues, leading them to misunderstand the book. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Bart describes the origin of the book he edited with Michael Holmes, The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the...