Did anyone exist in the first century? (part 2): Paul
Kenneth Humphreys Is probably the major Paul Myther.I can't find out much about him, but he wrote a Jesus Myth book, The Christos Mythos . See a review by major historian James omerea. His anti-Paul arguments are laid out on a blog: A Fabricated Apostle: Two Different Pauls . Humphreys has many argumens but I will deal with six, and to summarize them: (1)Argument from silence on Paul's great acts (2) Disparities between Epistles and Acts (3)Conflicts between Paul's Roman citizenship and Jewishness (4) Paul's conversion story is implausible. (5)Supposedly parallel passages with Josephus. (6)No evidence of Paul in Ephesus His First Argument is an Argument from Silence (OF COURSE). There's no record of Paul being assigned to enforce Jewish sanctions against heretics. Moreover, Paul was always meeting Kings and civic dignitaries yet there is no record of it in secular history. "The trail-blazing Christian missionary and apostle,...