How much weight should we give to such a silence about Jesus' life as being evidence for Paul not thinking of Jesus as a human being that walked the earth?

Now, if the silence of a Gospel-like-Jesus in the epistles is viewed as a telltale sign that we instead might be dealing with a celestial Jesus-figure, how do you explain the lack of historical Jesus references/allusions in the Pastorals (with the one exception of 1 Tim 6:13? )

Is it possible that "Q" was not an actual document, but instead was an oral tradition from which New testament authors quoted in their writings?
 
If for some reason you were to take a break from biblical studies, where would you direct your scholarly energy?

Listener ideas for a Jesus novel.

Why do Christians worship Jesus? How different do you think Christianity as we experience it would be if there were only the Gospels?

Could the originals of the New Testament be kept in the Vatican's secret library?

 What did Deuteronomy 29:29 actually mean when it was written?