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The Dialogue With Trypho mentions John the Baptist e.g. But the Dialogue with Trypho was not written by Justin. The Dialogue (35) assumes a Marcion who is already famous at a global* level. But Marcion was expelled from the Church of Rome only in 144 CE. He couldn't be known nor hated by Justin if ...

So what do the 390 years mean , in your judgment? It is a cardinal rule of historical inquiry that it does not take historical documents to grant a peek into historical events. In this case it wouldn't mean anything. Either a miscalculation, interpolation, or the like. Unless it's referring to the ...

How would Ezra work with counting the 390 years (CD-A, column 1, lines 5-6) from the time of the Babylonian captivity? I know that ancient chronologies can be sloppy and inexact, but to squeeze 390 years into a century and a half or thereabouts seems pretty extreme to me. The DSSs are not historica...

Right. I was not suggesting ben Stada as the Teacher. I was saying that ben Stada was one of the Jewish guesses (in the Talmud) for the identity of Jesus, which seems noncontroversial to me, as we actually have the Talmudic passages making the equivalence. Okay. I misunderstood it then. My bad. If ...

Also, ben Stada doesn't seem likely as he was a late first, early second century figure. Also, ben Stada does not seem likely as... what, exactly? That ben Stada was the Teacher, which is a proposal I've encountered before. But the two occupy two distinctive periods. Unless I've misunderstood what ...

For what it's worth, for a long time I have considered Ezra to be the Teacher, and Sanballat to be the Wicked Priest.

Also, ben Stada doesn't seem likely as he was a late first, early second century figure.

Here's a book that YHWH had aspects of solarism.

https://www.amazon.com/Yahweh-Sun-Bibli ... oks&sr=1-1

From memory, I think Tertullian addresses the charge of solar worship thrown at Christians.

I don't see where the significance or the use of crucifixion can/will unlock anything of worth. Could it have been an out growth of older symbols for rebirth? An extension of ancient body language? An historical event? A motif popular in ancient novels at the time? Some cosmic symbol? As the ark/sa...

I don't see where the significance or the use of crucifixion can/will unlock anything of worth. Could it have been an out growth of older symbols for rebirth? An extension of ancient body language? An historical event? A motif popular in ancient novels at the time? Some cosmic symbol? As the ark/sai...

Giuseppe is just a mentally retarded conspiracy theorist. You should just leave him to argue with himself, Ben.