In Reply to: Re: For starters.... posted by Farmer on January 10, 2009 at 18:19:00:
I haven't read your links yet. I wanted to respond briefly to this statement:
"I think the historical Jesus is a theological buzz-word & books after books are written about the initial phase of Christianity where the most extremistic view is, that he never existed, a fabrication of some fishermen...strange, that they were willing to die for their concoction, not knowing what the future would hold for them...only people, who have no knowledge about the OT-prophecies about the Messiah can fall prey to such rubbish."
"Jesus of history" IS a theological buzz-word, but it means something to me beyond what you seem to imply...that the historicity of Yeshua Ben Miriam is somehow proven by OT prophecies. Such prophecies are open to interpretation, and if indeed they point to the historical figure, a rabbi from Nazareth, I would question whether those prophecies say anything about the Messiah being an incarnation of the Holy One of Israel or a manifestation of Elohim.
I think a case could be made that many peoples are like the Jews in their talk of God, including Native Americans (U.S. "Indians") or what are properly called First Nations People.