Posted: May 07, 2012 4:48 pm
IgnorantiaNescia wrote:You are correct to say that massive scholarly imcompetence or a massive scholarly conspiracy is entirely irrelevant to the historicity of Jesus, but this is about the parsimony of Mythicism. Like other pseudo-academic* theories, it needs to address why the experts are so wrong.
Philology invites questions about the very concept of expertise in philology, doesn't it? It could very well be that there is no absolute anchor for the interpretation of texts, which would mean that you have to put up with varying interpretations of the bible. Surely, this would be nothing new to you. There is nothing so obvious about historicism as its focus on generating an unambiguous interpretation of the NT. The only thing about mythicism that bothers you is its ambiguity.