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I'm also thinking of the other named teachers we have, such as Valentinus or Basilides. I'm thinking of those that might be described as against Judaification, not just the Judaification ones. I'm thinking of the non-orthodox ones, not just the orthodox ones. As far as I can tell, a belief that Jes...

The purpose of this thread is not to defend my ideas above, though I'm happy to do so. It's to get people's own ideas around what Marcion means for early Christianity. SPECULATION WELCOMED! I'm interested in speculative ideas. Posts don't have to be the strong, respectful and well-thought out argum...

George Wells. As I have said, my concern in this book is with the gospels rather than with the early epistles. But the significance of the enormous difference in what is said of Jesus in these two sets of documents should not pass unnoticed; and if in fact two different personages are being synthesi...

As a telecommunications engineer without a humanities education, I have some problems with expressing my thoughts in humanistic terms. As a marketer by practice, I look for analogies and benchmarks. For me, the gospels are as much a product as The Story of Paul and Thecla or Calvin and Hobbes. Yep,...

Jesus was famous to have been crucified. Janneus was famous to have crucified. Therefore the Jews thought that Janneus crucified Jesus. The Toledot Yeshu has it's Yeshu figure born under Jannaeus but his death, execution, is under Queen Helene. An online version of the Toledot Yeshu makes no mentio...

Read the list of things he was working on a decade before his death. Why bother if he's not interested in the truth? If he made up a fake gospel why keep investigating? Morton Smith' cared. He's not arguing on behalf of dogma. He's testing. Investigating. Probing. If you could just "fake"...

Jack Bull asks about the neglect of Marcionite studies: Why have they -- why are colleagues (secular and biblical) -- not engaging with us properly ... about Marcionite studies? [/i] Jason BeDuhn gives the following answer: 24:45 "Intellectual inertia. And just to be very frank very poor quali...

Now that I think about it - James Bond and Ian Flemming - are a pretty good example of what has happened with the gospel Jesus story. The created literary figure of James Bond has had many actors play the part in movies. As the gospel Jesus historicsts have supplied many versions of their, assumed,...

So long as some interpreters continue to drive a wedge between Jesus and John, his fellow Jewish contemporary who influenced him most, we will struggle to combat the legacy of Christian antisemitism that denigrated Judaism – including John the Baptist – in the interest of elevating Jesus. Jesus’ hi...

And just to keep history in mind in view of the OP ... Alexander Jannaeus did not bring down the Hasmonean dynasty.... That tragedy fell to Hyrancus and Antigonus. Keep Posting on this, maryhelena. Mebbe someday, someone here will realize that there was a History in the area before...before... JESU...