Historical Jesus, Biblical Jesus

[Rhythmcs]

Well, sure, nothing is anything because I say so.  Nevertheless, the character of christ or jesus in magic book is called a composite character because the term describes the character found in the text.  Multiple authors, multiple and divergent descriptions of the character - all coming together in the one.  Like streams into a river, the pauline texts being one of those streams.  It's conceivable, as well, that pauls christ or jesus was itself a composite character, narrative details derived from more than one source or real person in pauls life.  Consider a character in one of stephen kings novels.  There may be one or many different people the author has in mind when fleshing out what this character will be, will do, or what they would say on the page.  

I was not talking about" magic book". I was specifically talking about Paul, and you responded to THAT.

Go back in thread, you'll probably notice that I wasn't responding to you at all.

I was not talking about ANY other author. There are no personal details in PAUL so, ... no, a nothing, cannot be a composite.
Others may have used or made one, and I suspect they did, using many sources, ("I am the way, the truth and the life" came from Egypt as I recall, 12 disciples from Mithras, "virgin birth" from many places, etc etc.)

I'll suggest again that you misunderstand.  I'm not arguing with you, and do not disagree with anything you've put in your responses.  I'm running with the implicit assumption of hj research and asking who, then, is the real man these many authors, including paul, would have been describing.  Further, which -one- of them, is supposed to be the -real- hj.

I didn't misunderstand anything. I wrote why the composite generalization cannot include Paul, and I stand by that. There IS NO COMPOSITE in Paul, as THERE ARE NO PERSONAL DETAILS, at all. What is there is general and allegorical.

-and yet, that doesn't stop them from using "paul" to create a picture of one of the historical jesi, nor would it have stopped "paul" from sourcing the character of his jesus from some living person or persons. It's just an assumption being followed through on, again.