Scholarly discussion… interesting!
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Who wrote the gospels
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Ascetic X
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Another heretical false teacher. Attacking the scriptures in this nutty way is not enlightening or profound. “If you get it wrong, it’s only heaven or hell, right?” This is not serious or scholarly.
Walsh calls into question the idea that the gospels are products of traditions going back to communities of Christians subsequently captured by literate spokespersons for those communities.
Rather, she sees the gospels are products of a community of educated, literate elites, writing to entertain themselves, some of whom may not have actually been Christians.
Walsh traces the older view of the gospels to historical cultural developments in the West. She points out that we know much more about these literate elites than we do about “spurious oral traditions” and contexts derived solely from the texts themselves. She regrets a divide that took place in the nineteenth century between classicists and Bible scholars.
Walsh calls into question the idea that the gospels are products of traditions going back to communities of Christians subsequently captured by literate spokespersons for those communities.
Rather, she sees the gospels are products of a community of educated, literate elites, writing to entertain themselves, some of whom may not have actually been Christians.
Walsh traces the older view of the gospels to historical cultural developments in the West. She points out that we know much more about these literate elites than we do about “spurious oral traditions” and contexts derived solely from the texts themselves. She regrets a divide that took place in the nineteenth century between classicists and Bible scholars.
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Silverhair
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This is just nuts. Well the podcast title says it all MythVision
…and she is a PHD and she teaches at the University level … and she does interviews and she writes books. What are your credentials heretic boy?
yea…. Eyes wide shut
The 4 authors named, as the early Church had NONE to state any
What are you saying…!?!
Got cut off, wrote that there never were any other authors even given forth as a writer to any of the accepted gospels other then the universally accepted authors
And she explained why that is, correct.
atpollard
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Nope … watched and listened and found the arguments not compelling. I enjoyed the first Harry Potter book, but don’t imagine myself willing to be tortured to death rather than deny that it is 100% true. So I am no expert in Mediterranean Literary History, but I have a “boatload” of credits in Psychology and Sociology and Cultural Anthropology and other “Behavioral Sciences” that say THAT is not how people work (individually or collectively).
So just … Nah (to her thesis). She violated Occam’s Razor.