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Revelation 1:7 does not mention a "figure falling dead from the sky."

If his own son (besides me) is not believed, what is the point of writing here?

So many exceedingly-ffy, unevidenced, presumptions.

Neusner watched lots of, and repeated, TV according to his son (and according to the prof. who knew him).

The prof who mentioned Neusner I knew--Neusner himself at conferences was hard to miss--was imo a reliable source, the point being: excess publications, without even long work days.

If I get this right, you, rgprice, have written that Mark was a genius but that Matthew and Luke totally misunderstood his supposed-by-you fiction and then added to it mistakenly from other sources as if not fiction, and that Mark was originally shorter except when it was originally longer.

On the post Giuseppe wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:43 am To my knowledge, the consensus says that Luke is a gospel addressed to gentiles. Gentiles are not obliged to know the geography of the Judea and Galilee. Even less to know a priori where Capernaum is. Therefore: *Ev precedes Luke. ~~~ I still rea...

The Aesop fable of the boy who cried wolf occurs to me, if I am allowed to mention it here. I wrote that one therefore-mythicism-concluding post seemed to me not to logically follow from the reasoning offered for that assertion. If I may suggest this, here, offering weak or irrelevant justifications...

This is not the quote that I remember, which was by a professor. But Jacob Neusner's son, Noam, could be considered an expert witness: "And then there is his father's television habit. "He watches a lot of junk TV," Noam says. "He's seen every episode of Murder, She Wrote at leas...

iirc, Neusner was said to be a television watcher, according to a comment about his over-productivity.
Something of the sort: he did all that, but still watched TV at night.

No. These are common names.