2026-10-03 10:01 UTC
tbc I’m not a mysticist at all, and I generally understand and agree with the historicity arguments. I haven’t read Ehrman, though. Do you know if his work is where does the “end-is-nigh witch doctor” idea comes from? Afaik neither Paul nor Josephus nor Tacitus describe him as such, and as I understand those are the main sources we have. Like, I can understand that this is a hypothesis someone floated around but I’m curious why this would be the consensus among historians.
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@Architeuthis@awful.systems 2026-10-03 13:03
Apparently he has a book called (Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millenium)[en.wikipedia.org/…/Jesus:_Apocalyptic_Prophet_of_…] so that’s likely to have you covered. I read “How Jesus Became God” from him at some point which might have touched on this, but it was mostly about the evolution of the messiah concept itself, like how the ‘son of man’ was supposed to be it’s own specific thing and not just a euphemism for messiah, or how the term in jewish apocalyptic literature has pretty much completely separate