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Arthur Drews - PDF Wikipedia Aug. 23, 2012 PAGES - Radikalkritik

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exceptional, including many banal platitudes from Talmud (Romans 2:1 &<br />

Matthew 7:1); (Romans 2:19 & Matthew 15:14), etc...<br />

2. Paul no Witness to the Historicity of Jesus[56]<br />

Paul arguing with Jews, 12th-century champlevé enamel plaque -<br />

DISPVUTABAT CV[M] GRECIS (He disputed with the Greeks) REVINCEBAT<br />

IV[DEOS] (He refuted the Jews)<br />

Paul was not concerned with the earthly life of Jesus, and his idea of Christ<br />

was formed independently of an historical Jesus. Wrede concurs: For Paul,<br />

only Jesus's death is important, and it is a "superhistorical" fact for Paul. Paul<br />

knew nothing of Jesus. Paul is not the disciple of a historical Jesus. Paul<br />

invokes no distinctive acts of the "Lord", no sayings of Jesus, even when it<br />

would have been most useful to his own preaching, for instance on the<br />

question of the law.<br />

"[I]nstead of doing so, [Paul] uses the most complicated arguments from the<br />

Scriptures and the most determined dialectic, when he might have acted so<br />

much more simply." [Emphasis added.] Why not, for example, in Gal. 2:11-14

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