peda schreef: ↑02 aug 2023, 13:35
Bonjour schreef: ↑02 aug 2023, 13:11
Ik zal vanavond even kijken of ik wat opmerkingen uit he boek daarover kan vinden.
Dank daar voor. Zelf vind ik het niet zo interessant om een dispuut te voeren over het al of niet bestaan van een charismatisch mens met naam Jezus.
Daarom ook mijn vraag of er orthodox christelijke apologeten van naam de degens gekruist hebben met Carrier en zijn opponent ( in mijn optiek B Ehrman).
Als je Carrier volgt, dan begrijp je dat het weinig uitmaakt of je protestant, katholiek of orthodox christelijk bent. Waarschijnlijk heeft het werk van Carrier minder mensen bereikt in Oost-Europa, maar dat is niet zo interessant. Waarom maakt het geen verschil. Dat komt omdat Carrier de elementen bepaalt waar een historische of mythische Jezus aan moet voldoen. Dat werkt hij uit in hoofdstuk 2.4 en 3.3. van het boek. 2.4 begint op pagina 31, dus het duurt nog een tijdje voordat Balthasar daar aankomt, dus ik maai even wat gras voor zijn voeten weg. Ik zoek even een serie quotes op op Carrier in zijn redenatie te volgen.
Carrier, hfd 2.4 schreef:...
For example, there are twelve 'facts' about the historical Jesus that are widely regarded as 'almost' indisputable:
(1) Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, (2) he was a Galilean who preached and healed, (3) he called disciples and spoke oftwelve of them, (4) he confined his activity to I srael, (5) he engaged in a controversy about the Temple, (6) he was crucified outside Jerusalem by the Roman authorities, (7) his followers continued as an identifiable movement after his death, and (8) some Jews persecuted some members of this new movement . . . [and (9)] Jesus was probably viewed as a prophet by the populace, [10] he often spoke of the kingdom of God, [11] he criticized the ruling priests as part of his Temple controversy, and [12] he was crucified as 'king of the Jews' by the Romans.
But this is not a minimal Jesus, since taking some of these facts away would not result in any scholar concluding that Jesus did not exist. Indeed, many scholars already conclude some of these aren 't true facts about Jesus, yet they still maintain Jesus existed, just as a different kind of fellow than this portrait maintains.
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But notice that now we don't even require what is considered essential in many church creeds. For instance, it is not necessary that Jesus was crucified under Pontius Pilate. Maybe he was. But even if we proved he wasn't, that still does not vindicate mythicism. Because the 'real' Jesus may have been executed by Herod Antipas (as the Gospel of Peter in fact claims), or by Roman authorities in an earlier or later decade than Pilate (as some early Christians really did think).
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This gets us down to just three minimal facts on which historicity rests:
1 . An actual man at some point named Jesus acquired followers in life who continued as an identifiable movement after his death.
2. This is the same Jesus who was claimed by some of his followers to have been executed by the Jewish or Roman authorities.
3. This is the same Jesus some of whose followers soon began worshiping as a living god (or demigod).
That all three propositions are true shall be my minimal theory of historicity. As occasion warrants I might add features on to test the merits of more complex theories, but unless I explicitly say otherwise, the above is the theory I shall be testing against the minimal Jesus myth theory. Because if any one of those premises is false, it can fairly be said there was no historical Jesus in any pertinent sense. And at least one of them must be false for any Jesus myth theory to be true.
En nu een vegrelijkbaar verhaal voor hoofdstuk 3.3 The Minimal Jesus Myth Theory
Carrier, hfd 3.3 schreef:Despite countless variations the basic thesis of every competent mythicist, then and now, has always been that Jesus was originally a god, just like any other god (properly speaking, a demigod in pagan terms; an archangel in Jewish terms; in either sense, a deity),15 who was later historicized, just as countless other gods were, and that the Gospel of Mark (or Mark's source) originated the Christian myth familiar to us by building up an edifying and symbolically meaningful tale for Jesus, drawing on passages from the Old Testament and popular literature, coupled with elements of revelation and pious inspiration. The manner in which Osiris came to be historicized, moving from being just a cosmic god to being given a whole narrative biography set in Egypt during a specific historical period, complete with collections of wisdom sayings he supposedly uttered, is still an apt model, if not by any means an exact one. Which is to say, it establishes a proof of concept. It is in essence what all mythicists are saying happened to Jesus.
Distilling all of this down to its most basic principles we get the following set of propositions:
1 . At the origin of Christianity, Jesus Christ was thought to be a celestial deity much like any other.
2. Like many other celestial deities, this Jesus 'communicated' with his subjects only through dreams, visions and other forms of divine inspiration (such as prophecy, past and present).
3. Like some other celestial deities, this Jesus was originally believed to have endured an ordeal of incarnation, death, burial and resurrection in a supernatural realm.
4. As for many other celestial deities, an allegorical story of this same Jesus was then composed and told within the sacred community, which placed him on earth, in history, as a divine man, with an earthly family, companions, and enemies, complete with deeds and sayings, and an earthly depiction of his ordeals.
5. Subsequent communities of worshipers believed (or at least taught) that this invented sacred story was real (and either not allegorical or only 'additionally' allegorical).
That all five propositions are true shall be my minimal Jesus myth theory. As occasion warrants I might add features on to test the merits of more complex theories, but unless I explicitly say otherwise, the above is the theory I shall be testing against the minimal theory of historicity. Because if any one of the first four premises is false, it can fairly be said Jesus did not begin his life in myth (he just ended up there), and at least one of those premises must be false for 'Jesus was a real historical man' to be a relevantly true statement. The fifth premise, however, is uncontroversially a given, being already compatible with historicity, and well enough confirmed in the evidence as to not be in doubt.
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Finally, Premise 5 is already an effective certainty, as it is true even if historicity is true, and is so well verified in background evidence that its prior probability is as near to 100% as makes all odds. So the possibility of its being false will not be an issue.
Volgens mij zijn deze minimale eisen tamelijk algemeen en ik denk niet dat een bepaalde vorm van het christelijk geloof er meer aanstoot aan neemt dan andere.
Praten zonder inzicht, kan leiden tot rampen zonder uitzicht.
Peda.
Inzicht vergt verificatie.