Mythicists do not as a general rule, “play well with others,” and so they usually don’t interact much with current scholarship on the Historical Jesus. Instead they tend to copycat one another and recycle the outdated material of older... more
Mythicists do not as a general rule, “play well with others,” and so they usually don’t interact much with current scholarship on the Historical Jesus. Instead they tend to copycat one another and recycle the outdated material of older Mythicists. As a result, their books generally have the musty feel of Old Curiosity Shops specializing in rags and bones, kitschy, period-piece objets d'art, bundles of keys, darkened by oxidation, to doors and locks that no longer exist, heaps of damp, moldering, deservedly out-of-print books, and long-discounted notions. One such discounted notion Mythicists sometimes recycle is William Benjamin Smith’s idea of the Pre-Christian Jesus.
"Lectura sine nomine (Future Philology)." "He loved old colour, the golden glaze of time" - Henry James Long ago as certain spirits reacted to the world, their breath became language on ancient tongues and was captured with the... more
"Lectura sine nomine (Future Philology)." "He loved old colour, the golden glaze of time" - Henry James
Long ago as certain spirits reacted to the world, their breath became language on ancient tongues and was captured with the scratching of pens. For the history of concepts, Begriffsgeschichte, the study of words and their meanings comes to the fore, seeing language as the inner life of history. It seems true to say with Van Gelderen that "For the study of history language is the house of being." As an ancient practice, philology is well-suited to the study of old relics of language and the exploration of various abandoned houses of meaning. "
