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It ain't no Mystries, whether it's politics, religion or histries. The thing you gotta know iz, Everything is show biz. I think the crucial evidence that the author of gMark presents his story, his narrative, as history writing comes right off the bat, when he inserts his story into the frame of pr...

......................... This all means that Acts has witnesses that go back to 2nd-3rd century (101-300) CE, whereas the earliest witness for vs. 8:37 date no earlier than 6th century. All those variants and the dates of the witnesses convinced W&H and NA to omit vs 8:37 as a scribal gloss. Since...

JW : Book Review of Mark 1:1-8:26 by James Voelz: Restricted distribution characteristics 1. Prominent characteristics (twenty or more occurrences in Mark) d. δὲ in conversational interchange and several other contexts ... Not nearly as frequent early in Mark's Gospel, δὲ is used extensively later,...

ARGUMENT FROM THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MUSICAL (1) My argument's not a loser. (2) I don’t secretly hate it myself. (3) I’m not arguing this to no one. (4) It’s not the case that no one cares. (5) My argument's not a failure. (6) My argument does not not have talent. (7) When others see my argument ...

JW : Book Review of Mark 1:1-8:26 by James Voelz: Restricted distribution characteristics 1. Prominent characteristics (twenty or more occurences in Mark) c. Subject-verb (S-V) word order In chapters 9-15 especially...standard Greek S-V word order is much in evidence. It is especially frequent in s...

JW : Book Review of Mark 1:1-8:26 by James Voelz: Independent but noticeable characteristics (five to ten occurrences in Mark) e. Words and constructions notable by their absence ... ii. πορεύομαι alone (not in compounds) This common verb has no generally attested occurrences in Mark [P. 7] JW : πο...

ARGUMENT FROM THE BEST BAD ARGUMENT (1) There is a lot of positive evidence that Jesus existed but most of it is bad. (2) There is no positive evidence that Jesus did not exist. (3) RG Price argues that most of GMark has good parallels to The Jewish Bible and knows (apparently through Revelation) t...

(3) Neal Godfree also thinks that Jesus did not exist. For what matters my judgement, Neil is a delightful person even to the extent that he has never declared himself a mythicist , leaving open the possibility of a historical Jesus enough to make him an honest interlocutor even with historicist sc...

ARGUMENT FROM INTERSECTIONALITY
(1) Neal Godfree thinks Israel is racist, apartheid and genocidal.
(2) Therefore, Israel is racist, apartheid and genocidal.
(3) Neal Godfree also thinks that Jesus did not exist.
(4) Therefore, Jesus did not exist.

JW : I hesitate to create this Thread out of fear and astonishment. This Thread of course is the companion to my hilarious and than some Thread here: Proofs That Jesus Existed My fear is not so much that Believers will predictably use this Thread as Proof that Jesus did exist but that they will thi...