Night 1: Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia (Religious Studies Dept.)
Night 2: The Navigators of Canada; Acadia University (Divinity College)
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Does the New Testament present a reliable portrait of the Historical Jesus?
Resolution: The New Testament Presents a Reliable Portrait of the Historical Jesus.
Craig Evans, Doctorate in Biblical Studies
author of more than 50 books including Fabricating Jesus
Affirms the resolution.
I affirm the resolution with the finest of global scholars.
Jesus and Judaism by E. P. Sanders (Oxford to Duke) – we can know what Jesus wanted to accomplish, a lot of what he said, and it made sense within first century Judaism (dominant view in 1985)
A Marginal Jew by Meyers, 3,000 pages and counting
Dunn, Jesus Remembered
Tarak, Jesus a Biography
Are all of these scholars wrong? How about their working assumptions?
I
complete text of the four gospels 270 to 280 years removed from the original autographs
compare this to other texts that are 800 to 1,000 years removed from the original autographs
II
Verisimilitude. Their descriptions and contents cohere with archaeology and geography, culture and customs, and history
Jesus and Archaeology. The gospels unlike second century gospels are verified by archaeology.
Pick up at 24:04.
Craig Evans
Jewish learning was influenced by Greek pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept).
Papias Mark is not written in chronological order but written according to what is crayi/”useful” in Greek pedagogy.
We have the Greek handbooks on crayi.
The lessons, the padagogy, of Mark are not the same as Matthew or Luke, etc.
The disciples were not tape recorders.
“So many well-educated, capable scholars make use of the New Testament gospels as their primary source for studying the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.”
Steefen
The works of Josephus must be a source for studying the biblical Jesus, the historical Jesus, and Jesus, the composite character of historical fiction.
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