El transfondo judío del binitarismo de Pablo de Tarso

Abstract

Paul does not get his “inexhaustible and mind-blowing fantasy” the concep­tion neither of a possible pre-existent Messiah nor that of a full human being, who after his dead is exalted by God to the rank of Messianic judge, Lord and Messiah, founder of the divine King­dom. On the other hand, Pauline reflec­tion upon the nature of the Messiah is in line with a fully Jewish thought, which continues in Rabbinical times thereafter. On the other hand, it confirms the deep and irreconcilable difference between the historical Jesus, which can be reasonable and critically deduced from the reading of the Gospels, and the heavenly Christ. The first one, reduced to its fair terms by criti­cal research, is a figure of the 1st century history of Israel which perfectly fits in it and whose existence cannot be denied. The second one is a theological construc­tum which only belongs to the field of Jewish and Christian theology and not to the realm of history.