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- Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:48 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Book review of Gilad Atzmon's The Wandering Who?
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- Fri Oct 31, 2014 7:36 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Judas the Galilean of Nazareth
- Replies: 80
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Re: Judas the Galilean of Nazareth
Some might be interested to know that Unterbrink's book was first mentioned at the Secular Cafe in the thread 'John Remsburg and the mythicist/historicist debate', http://secularcafe.org/showthread.php?t=21725. In post #84 there, Koyaanisqatsi is discussing Judas Iscariot, and the thread segues into...
- Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:11 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Judas the Galilean of Nazareth
- Replies: 80
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Re: Judas the Galilean of Nazareth
No need for a new thread, as the answer to PO9's question is "no". As I mentioned, Unterbrink's work is not well written; his timeline graphics are extremely difficult to decipher, his chapter titles are often not descriptive of the material covered, and he desperately needs a comprehensiv...
- Wed Oct 29, 2014 7:55 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Judas the Galilean of Nazareth
- Replies: 80
- Views: 55785
Re: Judas the Galilean of Nazareth
Toejam's POV seems extremely close to my own. I do believe that Josephus was as honest and scholarly as any other historian of his day; he attempted to present the facts as best he knew them. But no man is capable of absolute truthfulness; we can't know all the facts, and our individual viewpoints o...
- Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:31 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Judas the Galilean of Nazareth
- Replies: 80
- Views: 55785
Re: Judas the Galilean of Nazareth
I agree that we ought not give Josephus a free pass as an unquestioned source of accurate history. He isn't. We know for sure that his works have been corrupted; the Testimonium is obviously a much later interpolation by some Christian looking to add historical validity to the tale of their god-man....
- Sat Oct 25, 2014 8:33 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Judas the Galilean of Nazareth
- Replies: 80
- Views: 55785
Re: Judas the Galilean of Nazareth
I have Unterbrink's book before me; I can scarcely recommend it as a well-written work, mainly because the organization of his ideas is atrocious. However, I find the ideas themselves extremely plausible, explaining many of the political and religious questions raised by the Christ story, and provid...