• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It’s amazing that scholarship is coming along on this.

    • They were eyewitnesses!
    • Ok they were compliers and historians
    • Ok they copied off each other a little but most of it was from eyewitnesses
    • Fine the bulk of it is derivative or topical but there was still some oral tradition
    • Yes fine they were slaves trying not to get whipped but there is still some tradition of some real facts

    I wonder how many decades until the scholarship just admits it was 1st century BuzzFeed/Disney making content for a fandom while using problematic labor practices. Imagine Spiderman comics in a world without copyright law and you know everything you need to know about the biblical authors.