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Galatians 1:19
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As I mention in the OP Bart Ehrman has just written a book outling the reasons to believe that Jesus was an historical person, and to refute what is known as jesus mythicism. Jesus Mythicism argues that Jesus was not an historical figure, but some form of mythical being.
One of the key pieces of evidence is that paul (whom scholars generally believe wrote some epistles before 70 AD), refers to the the "brother of the lord". Because the greek uses "the lord" rather than "our lord" it gives a foothold to argue that this does not refer to jesus.
Anyway Im not a christian so it doesn't matter to me whether jesus was an historical person, but it's interesting that the peshitta clarifies this verse and indicates unambiguously that it does refer to jesus (assuming the peshitta is the original).
I realise that most who post here are religious and this might not be of great importance, but the idea of peshitta primacy will have a lot of effect on NT criticism in lots of areas. Thats all.

When we look through the GNT there are quite a few places where one must ask...'is that referring to Jesus or to God?"
The peshitta is perfectly clear.
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Galatians 1:19 - by judge - 04-03-2012, 01:54 AM
Re: Galatians 1:19 - by distazo - 04-05-2012, 06:24 AM
Re: Galatians 1:19 - by Alan G77 - 04-05-2012, 02:23 PM
Re: Galatians 1:19 - by Alan G77 - 04-05-2012, 02:28 PM
Re: Galatians 1:19 - by Thirdwoe - 04-05-2012, 05:09 PM
Re: Galatians 1:19 - by judge - 04-07-2012, 11:05 PM
Re: Galatians 1:19 - by Thirdwoe - 04-08-2012, 02:03 AM
Re: Galatians 1:19 - by judge - 04-08-2012, 08:02 AM
Re: Galatians 1:19 - by Thirdwoe - 04-08-2012, 08:35 AM

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