Did he do it?

[ewx]

[Poll #1015302]

(By "much what he's said to have done" I'm thinking in fairly broad terms; for instance Jesus performed miracles, was put to death, lived again, Caesar conquered Gaul and was murdered by senators, etc; but not getting bogged down in the specific details of e.g. who Jesus cured of what disease.)

Comments

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

Yes, me too, I'd have gone for Abraham and Jesus with that option.

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that you're definite about Abraham.

(S)

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

Well perhaps being definite is being misguided. Perhaps the plethora of world traditions is a flimsy way to argue the existence of one of the patriarchs and I might have been wiser to poll 'might'.

I'll certainly be bowing to your opinion.

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

Err, sorry, I didn't mean to say "you are wrong"! I was just curious that you might know of some evidence for Abraham's historicity that I wasn't aware of!

(S)

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

Wasn't a snark. I doubt I would know any evidence that you wouldn't already know about, given your study in related fields. I'm no scholar, but I know the attempts to match him with this king or that tradition or Brahma even are on going. I'm sure it gets confused with abrahamic believers pointing to stuff to lend credence to evangelism and I do get absorbed by everyman documentaries. I suspect you are probably more in touch with the most recent and acurate theories than I.

And I'm all ears.

Well eyes.

:)