Fascinating thoughts -- I'm quite curious about Paul and never thought of him in quite that light. You made some really good points that make a lot of sense, and I'm interested to think about this some more and read Paul's writings in light of these considerations.
From what I've read recently on the Jesus Seminar, Paul is their next focus. And in fact, just now I went to the Westard Institute website and found them mention the Paul Seminar on this page (http://www.westarinstitute.org/Westar/westar.html).
The first and best-known project of Westar Institute is the Jesus Seminar. Launched in 1985, the Seminar was organized to discover and report a scholarly consensus on the historical authenticity of the sayings and events attributed to Jesus in the gospels. Recently, the Fellows of the Seminar have begun to develop and analyze the various profiles of the historical Jesus that emerge from current research.
Other Westar Seminars are also at work. The Paul Seminar is considering the authenticity and integrity of the Pauline letters. The Canon Seminar is debating which early Christian works, canonical or non-canonical, should be included in a new New Testament. An Acts Seminar, which began deliberations in 1999, will evaluate and report on the historical authenticity of the Acts of the Apostles, in much the same way as the Jesus Seminar reviewed the sayings and events in the gospels.
But I can't find much on who is involved in the Paul Seminar or any of their current research.
At this site (http://www.faithfutures.org/JDB/JSvoting.html) I found a single line that says "Voting data for the Paul Seminar is yet to be published in Forum."
And here (http://www.christiancourier.com/penpoints/seminarStrikes.htm) is what looks to be a conservative Christian news article touching on the subject of the Paul Seminar.
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Date: 2004-05-26 10:11 am (UTC)From what I've read recently on the Jesus Seminar, Paul is their next focus. And in fact, just now I went to the Westard Institute website and found them mention the Paul Seminar on this page (http://www.westarinstitute.org/Westar/westar.html).
But I can't find much on who is involved in the Paul Seminar or any of their current research.
At this site (http://www.faithfutures.org/JDB/JSvoting.html) I found a single line that says "Voting data for the Paul Seminar is yet to be published in Forum."
And here (http://www.christiancourier.com/penpoints/seminarStrikes.htm) is what looks to be a conservative Christian news article touching on the subject of the Paul Seminar.