Piggybacking on the ideas of Yehezkel Kaufmann and John Oswalt, this argument builds on the uniqueness of the ancient Israelite claims about the divine to show that such a perspective could only have come about through divine revelation. My co-host was Jackson Ferrell who can be found (among other places) at https://chocolatebook.wordpress.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCApG0JBkT6PzJEWLMZ0IZOw
Podcast link:
http://www.cantus-firmus.com/Audio/20160919-TranscendenceArgument.mp3
Resources mentioned:
Yehezkel Kaufmann’s The Religion of Israel:
https://amzn.to/3mkFGeG
John Oswalt’s The Bible Among the Myths:
https://amzn.to/3y8sjQJ
John D. Currid’s Against the Gods:
https://amzn.to/381DujC
Tom Gilson’s counter-argument to the Jesus legend theory:
https://www.thinkingchristian.net/posts/2014/05/the-story-of-jesus-is-unimaginably-great-therefore-its-true/
UPDATE–Tom Gilson’s new book on the Jesus legend theory, Too Good to Be False: How Jesus’ Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality:
https://amzn.to/2WeZpBD