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He also refers to the Pauline letters having "no knowledge of the Gospels or anything in the" which is a standard understanding, but then notes "with the possible exception of the eucharist, which one could argue reverse causation for". 1 Corinthians 11:24 has eucharisteō, but what he means by reve...

I had just been typing this and leave this here for the moment: "To add to my last post, I'd like to point out that the parallels to the Egyptian, to Jesus ben Ananias or Simon bar Giora are in no way competing. Quite the opposite: only if you make use of all of them, you get to cover most the gospe...

the trial of Jesus in the gospels seems to be based on the trial of Jesus ben Ananias in Josephus. Ulan, my aim is not to put down other theories on the identity of the Historical Jesus. I just have one comment: most of the theories put forth hone in on one or two, or perhaps three, similarities --...

The identification of Jesus with the "Egyptian" has a few good points going for it, but it kind of ignores the other parallels. The first one that many have pointed out is that the trial of Jesus in the gospels seems to be based on the trial of Jesus ben Ananias in Josephus. Not quite as clear, but...

Given I adorned this thread with my computer issues, I could as well say a few words regarding the video. I'm not sure whether I said something during the last discussion, and I had read the paper before, but I guess that doesn't matter. First, I like the general idea that the stories that are told ...

Ulan, it looks like the sound only uses the right speaker during that time, so it is a problem with your left speaker. If you go into your Settings for your PC and select your 'Sound' option, and then 'Balance', I think you'll find that the Balance scale is set all the way over to the 'Left' speake...

Hi Lena, the quiet section starts at 3:09, after you mention the Testimonium Flavianum, and sound comes back at 13:35, when you talk about Ginea. If I use my headphones, I can hear that your commentary is still there, just very quiet, but with my desktop loudspeakers, I don't hear anything during th...

Thanks. It seems to be missing roughly 10 minutes of sound though.

Of course, you are correct with this, too. My comment was only made with the potential of radicalization in mind, which of course was there for both sides. In the end, the question who would have been the worse pain for people with opposing religious views as soon as the respective movement reaches ...

Well, that's not an unreasonable position. Giving power to fanatics often results in less than desirable outcomes.