OT: Re: "The Jesus Dynasty"

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Barrie Wright

OT: Re: "The Jesus Dynasty"

Legg inn av Barrie Wright » 15 apr 2006 02:39:02

I do not know Laura Miller, but I am a 7 year graduate-trained
theologian, and her
summary of Tabor's shows that it is a travesty of scholarship as
lacking in any
historical credibility as Dan Brown's fiction.

I comment on just one passage here because it's Easter,
and this is majorly Off Topic anyway :

"" "The Jesus Dynasty" seeks to restore John to some of the
status he enjoyed
before Christian theologians reduced him to a mere precursor of
the Christ.
In actuality, Tabor argues, John's radical cause was fully in
motion by the time
Jesus, a kinsman of John's, turned up to be baptized in the
Jordan River at age 30.
"Jesus was a disciple of John and John was the rabbi or teacher
of Jesus,"
not the other way around.
Eventually, Jesus and John became "full partners" in a movement
that
anticipated the overthrow of the corrupt civil and religious
authorities in
Israel and eventually the entire world.""

'In actuality' ??? So John and Jesus were zealots and secret
'terrorists' in cahoots
In brief, this is old and totally empty stuff. For one thing,
no-one says anywhere that
Jesus taught John.

It takes supreme self-confidence to rubbish ALL the 1st C.
Christian texts and the
originators of the Faith from a distance of 2000 years, while
showing no understanding
yourself of them, or the real Jewish context of John's and
Jesus' teaching, and having
NO new evidence beyond the Gospels to add to the minimal
knowledge historians have
of John The Baptist and Jesus.

Tabor would be on sounder ground if he used what we know of King
Arthur to weave
his magic revisionism into an English Da Vinci Code-type yarn.

Maybe he will, it's sure to be profitable.
Barrie Wright

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