[lit-ideas] Hijacking Christianity

  • From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:00:02 -0500

Since we have nothing of "Yeshua's messages"
except through Christianity, how can there be a highjacking?


Scholars regularly refer to Q (Quelle=source) a
compilation of Jesus' sayings that were used by
Gospel writers in constructing their narratives.
Since this source no longer exists, it is hard to
exactly determine its contents, but a bit of
scholarly reverse-engineering on the texts gives
people an idea of what, if not all, it probably
contained. For example some of the pseudepigrapha
may have Q elements, but there is no way of
establishing that beyond linguistic conjecture.

The hijacking would then amount to the additions
and framing of Q by the Gospel writers as well as
the ideological additions made by Paul and other
writers of canonical epistles.

The New Testament also makes extensive use of
midrash (intertextual references to Jewish and
Christian Scriptures) in telling its story. A
further form of literary hijacking--that is similar
to the literary hijacking implicit in Deuteronomy or the
Additions to Daniel in Jewish Scriptures.

"Reframing" might be a better word than
"hijacking" but the essence is the same. It's all
story-telling...building a story, connecting a
story, foreshadowing, incorporating mythic harmony.


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