> I'll go with Robin on this - as long as the NT is narrowed down to the
> Gospels (and maybe there's even some violence there - I seem to remember
> something about a wrathful God...)
And there's the ear business the night before, but Jesus ticks off the
disciple who did this. Forget his name, but.
(Mind you, if you want some *real* gratuitous violence, check out the New
Testament Apochryphal [Childhood of Jesus] Gospels, the ones which didn't
make the cut for the canonical books. Even I, on a bad hair day wouldn't, I
hope, at the age of eight, arrange for a pile of slates to fall off a roof
and brain three of my little playmates simply because they were making fun
of me. Oof!!)
> I could never come to terms with Paul,
> despite that wonderful passage about seeing through a glass darkly: that's
> where the rot really sets in.
Boy oh girl, Alison, you've hit every one of my buttons on this. I couldn't
agree more. (Wish I'd thought to say what you do above -- neatly sums up
all my feelings about Saul.)
But the rot sets in even before you jump from the Gospels to the Epistles.
By the time the Gospels are written down, Paul (rather than James) is in
control, so even the texts of the Gospels themselves are filtered through a
Pauline matrix.
But don't start me, or the boredom factor for this list will go smash
through the roof.
The Enigmatic Stone-Dwelling Great Sumatran Rat
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