>>21349626>1Agreed.
>2The jesus character is certainly based on previous figures of their scriptures. I don't think I've made the Metatron connection myself, but it's very possible. He's supposed to fulfill the torah, so he's a bit of a collage.
>3Exactly this. That's the midrash I'm talking about.
>4Do you mean the whole bible, NT and OT? I think that's the Marcionist position, but as far as I can tell, that's just a cope to try to distance from the jewishness of the OT.
>5That's possible. Saul certainly mixed it with a lot of Hellenism to make it more palatable to goyim and Hellenized jews (ie. "bad" jews, from his perspective).
>6Yes, see #2
Good observations, anon.
