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
The second of three posts in which Bart explains how he came to write Misquoting Jesus. Read by Steve McCabe.
The Parable of the Sower is hard to understand, and Jesus intended it that way, Bart argues. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.
While the Hebrew Bible was long thought to have an unproblematic manuscript tradition, Bart suggests that view has changed. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.