Professor Martin Hengel interview from the Christ Files part 2

As the music world farewells the king of pop Michael Jackson, academia mourns the loss of a scholar of truly biblical proportions. Martin Hengel was Professor of New Testament and Early Judaism at Germanys prestigious University of Tübingen from 1972 until (as Professor Emeritus) his death last Thursday (July 2). The author of dozens of important monographs and literally hundreds of technical articles, Professor Hengel's influence will be long-lasting. John Dickson had the enormous privilege of conducting what was perhaps Hengels last full-scale television interview (for a 2008 historical documentary). The uncut interview is made available here in his honour.

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[Ousias1]

@RichGriese Peter is mentioned in numerous independent sources from the first and early second century. This is the sort of stuff of which history is made, unless of course the ones doing history are part of the hyper-skeptical, anti-religious industry. Ciao!

[RichGriese]

The interviewer says something like "you and other scholars have shown that marks gospel... appears to record the witness of peter, who was a eye witness...". The problem is that we don't even know if there was an actual Peter character, so to say that they "have shown" that, and he was an "eye witness", is problematic. Hengel does not correct the questioner. This is a kind of problem that you see over and over again in the religion industry.

Cheers!