Monday, April 10, 2006

Laurie Goodstein: Document Is Genuine, but Is Its Story True?

http://titusonenine.classicalanglican.net/?p=12319

[titusonenine] April 10, 2006--Scholars on all sides agree that the text was probably produced by a scribe in a Gnostic community of Cainites — early Christians who regarded the traditional villains of the Bible, including Cain and Judas, as heroes.

“There is no evidence that any of these documents ever represented mainstream Christianity,” Professor Witherington said. “The Cainites were always on the fringes of their own movement.”

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