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 discusses the scriptural evidence that Jesus could read, with reference to research on literacy rates in the ancient world. Read by John...
Dr. Ehrman looks at problematic ways of reading the Bible: the "Ouija Board" approach and the "Jigsaw Puzzle" approach Read by John Paul Middlesworth
In preparation for talking about the Spirit in Corinthians, Dr. Ehrman looks a how the community formed and what its composition might have been....