Comments on: John Dominic Crossan’s “God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now” http://egalicontrarian.com/index.php/2009/06/08/john-dominic-crossans-god-and-empire-jesus-against-rome-then-and-now/ a blog full of magic Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:33:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: J.K. http://egalicontrarian.com/index.php/2009/06/08/john-dominic-crossans-god-and-empire-jesus-against-rome-then-and-now/comment-page-1/#comment-150 J.K. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:05:17 +0000 http://egalicontrarian.com/?p=273#comment-150 I'd like to know more about the exact method by which Crossan locates each letter in the chronology of the Pauline corpus. It was my understanding that dates were assigned in correlation with the type of christology they contain--e.g. the higher the christology, the later the date and the less authentic. Titus, for example, has a high christology, if I remember correctly. Clearly there are other criteria, but it always seemed to me that christology was decisive. And come on, Joshua, when is biblical scholarship not ad hoc!? I’d like to know more about the exact method by which Crossan locates each letter in the chronology of the Pauline corpus. It was my understanding that dates were assigned in correlation with the type of christology they contain–e.g. the higher the christology, the later the date and the less authentic. Titus, for example, has a high christology, if I remember correctly. Clearly there are other criteria, but it always seemed to me that christology was decisive.

And come on, Joshua, when is biblical scholarship not ad hoc!?

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