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The scale should be bigger. How about: House of Cardinals starring Kevin Spacey, Harvey Dubish and Stephen Carlson. Kevin Spacey is a conniving Pope and Morton Smith is his secret boyfriend. Smith is a bumbling, inspector Clumso type Bible scholar who accidently discovers the authentic Clement lette...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA-UPrK_x-k JW : Date Apologist Source Apology Commentary 1909 B. W. Bacon The Lost Ending of the Gospel According to Mark: A Criticism and a Reconstruction argued that the original ending of the Gospel was suppressed in the interests of harmony because of the rivalin...

JW : Wrestling With Greco Tragedy. Reversal From Behind. Is GMark Greek Tragedy? The Liberated Gospel by Gilbert Bilezikian Joseph MODERATOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charita...

JW : Paul Davidson, former member of The Forum, has a great Skeptical Website here: Is That in the Bible? and, unlike me, he does a lot of research and goes into a lot of detail. Kind of like he graduated from the Forum here. Regarding GLuke not just being later than GMark, but using it as a source...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx-QRKKxNcU Or, Mary. JW : Regarding "Mark's" memorialized and unnamed woman, are you suggesting this was: 1) An identified Mary in GMark? and/or 2) A historical Mary? Joseph "There's a new Sheriff in town. His name's Joseph. Ya'll be cool. Write on.&qu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP7GTu8tbvQ JW : Regarding the possible originality of Secret Mark KK pointed out that the exchange between Jesus and the formerly rich young man (so to speak) lacks the usual Markan literary style of negative, ironic switching. One of the few places in GMark that is ...

Joe, My point in posting this was not that Tselikas proved that Morton Smith forged it. I certainly accept he does not prove that. My point is that Tselikas examined the Letter to Theodore an concluded it was not copied by an 18th century scribe, but by someone trying to imitate the hand of an 18th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUUB96c6EpY Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"? https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-interpretation/agamemnon-tselikas-handwriting-analysis-report/ In his extensive multi-part repor...

JW : Current Opinion We will look at the opinion of a few Bible scholars and the related Wikipedia entry. A post associated with Bart Ehrman's website: HISTORICITY OF JESUS: 5 UNDENIABLE FACTS THAT PROVE JESUS WAS A REAL PERSON Examples of the Criterion of Embarrassment The first is Jesus’ baptism ...

JW : Background The Gospel of Mark is generally thought of as the earliest Gospel. GMark describes Jesus' baptism by John the Baptist as follows: 1 4 John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins. 5 And there went out unto him all the countr...