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Posted: Wed Apr 18th, 2007 10:26 am |
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For many years the biblical "scholarship" that the mainstream media presents as "what we now know" about Jesus and the early Church (e.g. "From Jesus to Christ"), kept me out of the Church. Then a dear friend had me read Monsignor Knox's "Materials for a Boswellian Problem," and the scales fell from my eyes. Discovering that Paul Verhoeven ("Robocop," "Starship Troopers," "Total Recall") was (is?) a Voting Fellow of the Jesus Seminar pounded the final nail in the coffin of liberal exegesis for me, and revelations such as Pagel's quote fraud only cause me to think "but of course she'd do that." I cannot wait for the Holy Father's book to become available here in the U.S.
But our media continues to promulgate the views of Pagels, Crossan and fellow travelers. The Saturday before last Christmas, CBS's 48 Hours broadcast "The Mystery of Christmas" in which Crossan was allowed to delcare unchallenged that the Virgin Birth of Our Lord was simply a retelling of Roman myths about the birth of Augustus. Crossan, of course, didn't offer the source of his claim, but in the "Life of Augustus," Suetonius writes about how Augustus was "divinely' impregnated by Apollo in the form of a serpent, a story which he states came from the Theologumena of Asclepias of Mendes. This was the story to which Crossan was quite clearly referring.
Now, Seutonius wrote the Lives decades after even the latest dating of Luke, a fact which Crossan also declined to mention, but does anyone know when the lost Theologumena of Asclepias was purportedly written?
Christos Voskrese!
John
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