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A cow gave birth to a lamb? Huh. I really didn't see that one coming. :o Like you I think these little tidbits make up a potential source for early Christianity ... Michael Crouch believed that this was just how Josephus understood Christians and their wacky, zany beliefs. Who made who? Perhaps Cro...

I wonder if Heggesippus is a sock-puppet-literary-device of Eusebius

Paul apparently used the term “gospel” ~60 times. He is said to use the possessive, “my/our gospel,” six times (one of which is in the pastoral 2 Tim. 2:8). He uses the definitive, “the gospel”, ~27 times. In addition, he uses terms such as “ the gospel of Christ ” (eg. Rom. 15:19) and “ gospel of G...

Nina E. Livesey, The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context: Reassessing Apostolic Authorship , Cambridge University Press. available from: July 2024 (in Hardback) Book description Since the late-nineteenth century scholars have all but concluded that the Apostle Paul authored six authentic...

The story of Jesus started in Ant. What part/s of 'Ant.' Why do you think the story of Jesus started there? Is Jesus a historical person? It is a question to Josephus. Probably He is historical. Why is it a question " to Josephus" ? What's the answer? What would Josephus's answer be (if y...

I am not saying that Josephus is a witness to Jesus, but that he is recounting oral traditions that may have influenced early Christianity. I presume you mean: "[Therein] Josephus is recounting events that may have influenced early Christian thinking and narrative development" (I'm not su...

The story of Jesus started in Ant. And was developed by ghostwriters in letters, in gospels. With invented tradition to cover the past. The main Jesus in the works of Josephus is Jesus ben Saphat/Sapphas/Sapphias. See Frans Vermeiren's 2017 book, A Chronological Revision of the Origins of Christian...

Giuseppe wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:46 pm If Mark is not Paulinist, then the next question is:

• What dumb jerk thinks Mark is not 'Paulinist'?
  • see viewtopic.php?p=159661#p159661

• The most pertinent question might be: what text, besides Acts of the Apostles, might be as Paulinist as Mark?

Acts of the Apostles

You question, "Is *Ev more Paulinist than Mark?," bears no relationship to the title of the article, viz., "Is the Gospel of Mark Distinctly Pauline?", or to the abstract there. Why on earth ...????