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- From: tycchow@riesz.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow)
- Subject: Re: Who is Christian - a simple answer
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 05:09:28 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.031007.6898@newsroom.utas.edu.au>
- Tim.ONeill@english.utas.edu.au (Tim O'Neill) writes:
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- >Eli is quite correct: very littl eof what Yeshua had to say was new.
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- If you take everything in the NT that is attributed to Jesus, then there is
- a considerable amount that is not just rabbinical Judaism, especially in the
- Gospel of John. Furthermore, if the little that I know about form criticism
- is correct, there is still a residue (called the "historical Jesus") that
- remains in the Gospels even if you excise the Christology and the Judaism.
- Exactly what this residue is is subject to a lot of debate, but from what I
- understand there aren't many nowadays who go as far as Bultmann did in
- claiming that the only historical fact extricable from the Gospels is that
- Jesus existed.
- --
- Tim Chow tycchow@math.mit.edu
- Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs
- 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh
- only 1 1/2 tons. ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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