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Do you see any symbolism in the picture?

Baptistery wall painting: Procession of women

Jerome Murphy O'Conner has the following insight regarding "cursing" Jesus reflecting the influence of Philo's philosophy on the Corinthians

http://historical-jesus.info/appc.html

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... ersion=KJV

Interesting approach to consider JtB an allegorical rather than historical figure. This hypothesis perhaps would support the idea that originally the gospel writers intended the readers to understand the writings in a non-historical manner. Otherwise, a reader would object that JtB never existed in ...

Additionally, there are gnostic interpretations that Pontius Pilate = Dense Sea

Joseph D. L. wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 02, 2018 1:56 am

3 Pontius Pilate and Marcion of Pontus are, by their respective name and epithet, associated with water, sailing, ships, and merchants

According to the source below, Pontius is a name from a hilly area in south central Italy.

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If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying. In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me. But I was lowered in a basket fr...

IMHO, a very early first century claim would hurt the apologetic agenda. According to the apologetic agenda oral traditions preceded anything that became written. Not to say that perhaps such a document did exist in the latter first century but what would be the chances of finding the original docum...