If Bauckham is right, then this could demonstrate ...

2007-11-24T07:30:00.000Z

If Bauckham is right, then this could demonstrate that eyewitnesses reported events in Jesus' life, like healings and exorcisms, and could also demonstrate that they were capable of engaging in haggadic style invention as reflected in other literature of the times.

Some real dramatic events occuring within the cult...

2007-11-23T23:15:00.000Z

Some real dramatic events occuring within the culture were recorded and turned into supernatural or miraculous events by later editors. Other miraculous events, particularly those related to journeys to Gentile areas, were, like the journeys themselves, simply fabricated by the same editors in a later attempt to link the prophet to a mission to Gentiles.

For the real dramatic events occuring within the culture, the blind stayed blind, the lame stayed lame and the sick stayed sick, and some died.
Such folk were locked out of the temple cult, unclean, and most probably unable to afford a sacrifice for sins. And then there were poor priests who were starved almost to death because their food was being stolen from the threshing floors by high priests, for some reason. I suggest that the real dramatic events that happened within the culture were that these folk were enabled to praise God as a result of following the prophet's 'philosophy'. Many of the priests rejected the temple cult. This was revolution. The prophet's followers came to regard themselves as cleansed although excluded from the temple cult. Even though their bodies were not healed, their spirits were regarded as cleansed and able to rise to the presence of God, leaving their sick impure bodies behind. Today this would not be seen as too much comfort. But then it was a victory, and a kick up the backsides of the priests who supported the temple.

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If Bauckham is right, then this could demonstrate ...

Some real dramatic events occuring within the cult...