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Andrew Criddle hath penned, quoting an Inquisitor: " 'They heard that there came three kings every man in his place, and they came together at the same time' (my dodgy translation) This is clearly based on the long version of chapter 11 of Ascension of Isaiah and seems to indicate that the original...

Yosippon suggests that the anti-Christian elements in the account of Paulina in Sefer Yosippon are dependent on pseudo-Hegesippus. Paulina’s Affair in Josephus is expanded in Pseudo-Hegesippus from which the Hebrew author (in Flusser’s edition chapter 57) develops a satirical polemic against Christ...

IMO some types of skepticism about a HJ entail a radical skepticism about our ability to do ancient history at all. That does not necessarily mean that these type of arguments are false, but, if true they have rather drastic implications in an area much wider that the study of early Christianity. An...

According to the Acts of the Apostles (11:26), it was in Antioch that the followers of Christ were designed under the name of Christians. If we follow the account of Acts, this event must be placed (Acts 11: 25-26) in the year following the arrival of Paul in this city and around the time of the ma...

Possibly relevant (though maybe a rather different idea): Clement of Alexandria according to Cassiodorus But by the expression, we have seen with our eyes, he signifies the Lord's presence in the flesh, and our hands have handled, he says, of the Word of life. He means not only His flesh, but the vi...

It is unclear to me how the Talmud could claim that Jesus was executed by the Jewish authorities, if it held that Jesus had no historical existence.

Andrew Criddle

The kings are killed and buried near Makkedah. The site of Makkedah is disputed but it seems to be a long way from Jerusalem.
https://bibleatlas.org/full/makkedah.htm

Andrew Criddle

An answer to Andrew Criddle's claim there is nothing to connect Carpocrates to the Gospel of the Egyptians: Although some of this literature certainly must be dated subsequent to the year 200, there still belongs to the beginning of the second century that book which Clement of Alexandria, the earl...

And you didn't answer my original question Andrew. Why isn't the Gospel of the Egpytians a version of Mark given it's interest in Salome and its provenance? I think that's fairly likely whether or not it is one and the same with Secret Mark. The issue of whether or not Clement - in his five or so r...

I think the issue with Memos's contribution is that he doesn't exhibit a critical apparatus for his arguments. He is an expert. I don't this his thesis makes sense - i.e that Smith took bits and pieces of various handwriting and made it his own. And when is Goranson going to deal with the fact that...