Posted: Apr 15, 2021 9:34 am
Hector Avalos has shuffled off this mortal coil.
He was agnostic on the existence of an Historical Jesus:
In another piece, Avalos has this to say about 'Jesus studies':
[ETA - The above article is interesting in itself with regard to the 'ethics' attributed to Jesus.]
Dr. Hector Avalos died on April 12, 2021 after a battle with cancer.
https://www.grandonfuneralandcremationc ... r--Avalos/
He was agnostic on the existence of an Historical Jesus:
My own opinion, as an academic biblical scholar, is that there is not enough evidence to settle the question one way or the other. I am an agnostic about the existence of the historical Jesus.
https://www.amestrib.com/article/201303 ... /303029936
In another piece, Avalos has this to say about 'Jesus studies':
1 Biblical scholarship is still primarily a religionist apologetic enterprise despite claims to be engaging in historico-critical and descriptive scholarship.
2 A more specific Christian orientation is clearly revealed in the manner in which the ethics of Jesus are predominantly viewed as benign and paradigmatic, even among supposedly secular academic scholars.
3 However, many of the fundamental ethical principles announced or practiced by Jesus actually would be antithetical to those we otherwise describe as ‘acceptable’ or ‘good’ by some of the most widely accepted standards of ethics today.
4 Accordingly, such a predominantly benign view of Jesus’ ethics signals a continuing acceptance of Jesus as divine or as morally supra-human, and not as the flawed human being who should be the real subject of historico-critical study.
https://www.debunking-christianity.com/ ... jesus.html
[ETA - The above article is interesting in itself with regard to the 'ethics' attributed to Jesus.]