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Klaus Schilling. Formatted and uploaded by Michael Hoffman with Klaus' permission, July 13, 2005.
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1. All Pauline epistles are from the Paul whose social and chronological framework is given by a literal or rational reading of the Apostolic Acts. |
2. The Paul of the Acts is the solid base of the Paulina, but got expanded by patristic tradition. |
3. Like above, but also heretical schools contributed actively to the letters. |
4. The core of the Paulines is
non-orthodox, going back to a distinguished Paul of pre-fall |
5. The Paulina are completely late pseudoepigraphy and forgery by both heretics and orthodoxy |
1. There was a Historical Jesus who is identical with the Christ of Faith |
1-1 Luke Timothy Johnson, Gleason Archer, Lee Strobel, Hanegraaf, Falwell, Mel Gibson, Shmuel Boteach, Ratzinger, Graham, Linnemann, Pat Robertson, van Impy, Michael Green (jm), Holding |
1-2 |
1-3 |
1-4 |
1-5 |
2. There was an HJ who laid the schemes for the CoF described in the gospels and may be distilled rationally from the same. |
2-1 Reimarus, Deschner, Scala, Nietsche |
2-2 Grondin, Goodacre, Jeffrey Gibson, Crossan, Mack, Luedemann, Schleiermacher, Renan, Harnack, Schmiedel, Windisch, Volkmar, FC Baur, Morton Smith, Spong, King, Weller, Leon Albert (jm) |
2-3 Kuchinsky |
2-4 |
2-5 |
3. There was an HJ vaguely related to the CoF, but it's not possible to clearly see the fire of the HJ through the smoke of the gospels. |
3-1 |
3-2 Wells, Bultmann, Dibelius, Schmithals, Holtzmann, Wellhausen, Pfleiderer, Gunkel, Elaine Pagels, Schopenhauer |
3-3 Loisy, Guignebert, Goguel, Clabeaux |
3-4
Sammer, |
3-5 van Manen, Loman, Ebbinghaus |
4. There was an HJ, but the connection to the gospels is deliberately distorted and constructed. |
4-1 |
4-2 Drewermann, Eisler, Rougier |
4-3 Turmel, Gys-Devic, Jay Raskin (jm), Ellergaard |
4-4 Wautier, Margaret Mead, Helena Blavatskij, Rudolph Steiner, Heindl, van Rijkenborgh, Annie Besant, Alice Bailey, Leadbeater |
4-5 Robert Price, Cascioli, Daniel Masse' |
5. There was no HJ. |
5-1 |
5-2 Earl Doherty, Rod Green (jm) |
5-3 Alfaric, Fau, Las Vergnas, Joseph Atwill, Reuchlin |
5-4 Georges Ory, Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, Jean Magne, Tom Harpur, Higgins, Drews |
5-5 Hermann Detering, GA vdBvE, HPhWE vdBvE, Bolland, Klaus Schilling (jm), Acharya S, Max Rieser, Bruno Bauer, Couchoud, Edwin Johnson, Michael Hoffman (jm) |
(jm) means an active member of the JesusMysteries discussion group.
Klaus also wants to categorize:
Hyam Maccobi
Marcus Borg
Geza Vermes
Jonathan Z. Smith
John M. Allegro
Birger Pearson
Harold Leidner
JM Robinson
Reitzenstein
Gershom Scholem
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