“My solution was to begin with a historical experiment conducted completely outside the New Testament and ask what we could know about God and Caesar in the life of Jesus from the Jewish historian Josephus—as if there were no New Testament at all. Only once that was independently established, would I add on anything from the Gospels. In other words, what can we learn from the historically grounded Jesus apart from the canonical portraits?”
It is not mine. It is John Dominic Crossan.
A little too hesitant. In experiments, you need brazen confidence without fear that someone might criticize you.
And this is mine:
The title thesis is based on a combination of conclusions from the works of biblical scholars. Some, such as David Trobisch and Steve Mason, have been concerned with the relationship of the gospel of Luke with the works of Josephus. On the other hand, Matthias Klinghardt, who rearranged the evangelical dominoes and added Marcion at the very top of the pyramid. Both sides are linked by the late Steven W. Trobisch, who translated Klinghardt.
In addition, most biblical scholars say that none of the evangelists was a direct witness. The First Evangelist counts, of course, because the rest only developed him. We don’t know how much he heard and how much he produced himself. And what he decided to base on. Josephus seems to be an excellent and reliable historical source.
I, as always, just added my own specific approach and here’s what came out.
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