I will be attending a lecture from Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan at Plymouth Congregational Church on Friday night. I’m excited to go and listen to these two men talk. If you don’t know who they are, I suggest you do a little reading. It’s interesting, as I don’t agree with much of what these two men have concluded about Christianity and Christ in particular, but I believe that there is no better way to get an open dialogue going than to listen when you have the chance.
If you live in Wichita I would suggest you go if New Testament scholarship or historical Jesus studies interests you at all. Click here for more information.
Please. Get seriously beyond the post-135 C.E. Hellenist-redacted Roman accounts. See
http://www.netzarim.co.il
(especially their History Museum pages, click in panel at left of their home page)
I’m sorry I never got back to your comment, I’ve been very busy. I tried to read the page linked above, but it is so poorly designed that I couldn’t stand looking at it for more than a few seconds.
As far as the biblical accounts being some sort of redaction of other known and verifiable textual information… I’ve heard others tell me that, but they have never been able to prove it. Where else should I be looking (other than a website, you may or may not have an affiliation with, that sites no sources)?