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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Greg or e who wrote (11310)4/14/2001 10:13:56 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
When did this event happen?

It didn't. It's a myth that got passed around. A power myth, a magic-man myth. They went around by the thousands in that era (they still do in many primitive cultures, and some less primitive ones).

When was this story written down?

Probably hundreds of years after it started being passed around orally.

By whom was it written?

We'll never know.

How much time elapsed between the supposed event and the oldest, extant copy of the manuscript?

There was no supposed event. It was a myth, a myth that crept into the scriptures of two religions that are still alive and probably many long dead ones as well.

Does it exhibit the characteristics of a historical narrative, or does it read like a mythological tale?

Of course it reads like a mythological tale. How could any story of a person taking a stroll on the surface of the sea sound like anything else?

Does the story contain references to historical Persons, or places, or events, that can verified to have existed or taken place?

Only if the myth accumulated them along the way.

Are there any independent, non-Buddhist sources that might corroborate this story?

Nobody needs to corroborate it, because nobody's claiming that it actually happened. We don't believe that Buddha ever did the cha-cha on the deep blue sea, and we don't believe that Jesus ever did either. The only point was that this particular myth had been around for quite a while when Jesus arrived on the scene.
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