On Sep 22, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> The debate about the historical Jesus seems settled but shows that
> it's hard enough to prove the "historical fact" that even he lived
> and breathed
The debate being settled means that the fact has been "proven" (established by the standards of historical proof), however difficult or easy the proof may seem to you.
> , much less that a bit player in the story of the passion did also.
bit player? You obviously never were called a christkiller, nor, by treating Jesus Bar Abbas as a "bit player," do you seem troubled by the supposed presence of two notable rebels with the same name--a seemingly absurd account that served only to justify the blood libel against all Jews.
Shane Mage "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64