Resurrection (Alward rebuts Carter)

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>Matthew Bell

>Your implication is clear, the evidence is typically lacking!

>

>POOBAH

>A large portion of biblical scholars would probably disagree with you on

>that. Since I am not an expert, I will not recommend any books or make any

>claims, but I am sure others here can point you in the right direction.


CARTER
Mythological tendancies overriding/replacing a historical event takes long
periods of time. The earliest Christian references to the crucifxion,
death, and resurrection of Christian can be dated as early as the A.D. 30's.

POOBAH
Perhaps when you are digging up some of your scholars that recently claimed
the Gospels were no older than 200AD you can produce some early Christian
references to the crucifixion from the fourth decade AD.

Finally, your assertion that "Mythological tendancies overriding/replacing a
historical event takes long
periods of time" is quite simply false. Let me pull a modern example out of
my hat... let's see, oh, let's take Roswell, NM as an example that clearly
was a matter of folklore very early. Till's latest issue of TSR deals with
the "modern Jonah" which shows how early myth-making can occur. Present day
media hoaxes demonstrate this as well.

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