Audience Q on mimesis: pagan parallels fail for the same reasons, plus early Christians were Torah-observant Jews who would not borrow from pagan myths

Licona briefly restates that mimesis arguments fail because: (1) the parallels are not actually parallel; (2) one must composite multiple figures; and (3) the earliest Christians were pious, Torah-observant Jews debating Jewish legal minutiae who would not tolerate wholesale borrowing from pagan myths.