Posted: May 08, 2012 8:57 pm
I might have said something very similar, with only a few amendments:
Interestingly, Allison seems uncomfortable with his own conclusions. (Usually a mark of good scholarship.) [i]Millenarian Prophet finished up with a brief, bleak epilogue subtitled "sometimes dreaming is wiser than waking," in which Allison undergoes full-on existential despair. A few years later in The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus he suggested that Millenarian Prophet may have been colored by Allison going through a bad clear patch, and then we got a historical case for an empty tomb -- cause unanswered -- in '05's Resurrecting Jesus. Alongside an essay establishing beyond any reasonable doubt a sort of u-turn, that the historic Jesus was a hellfire preacher. Allison gets a touch divided over this stuff.
[/i]He and Hoffman should start a club.
