RELG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Criterion Of Multiple Attestation, First Epistle To The Thessalonians, Early Christianity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 210
• Professor: Ian Henderson

Document Summary

Earliest texts about jesus; paul, 1 thessalonians, galatians. Paul most interested in crucifixion, resurrection, not life of jesus. Criteria of authenticity; le donne trashes them , similar to schweitzer. If appears in many sources, more legit (if independent sources, no collusion) Form; theme in more than one kind of tradition: double dissimilarity. Tradition about jesus that doesn"t make sense in 2nd temple judaism or early christianity. Jesus fit in most of the time in 2nd temple judaism. Christians want points of continuity between jesus and them. If don"t fit in either, then unlikely nobody made it up. Eg; matthew 8:22; let the dead bury their own dead . Closer relationship than w\father (back then, son-father relationship, most important) Better to be dead w honor than alive with shame. Legally; first chrisitians could bury, only right is to bury. So they would probably disagree with mt 8. 22.