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. Lourié B (2015) The “Synoptic Apocalypse” (Mt 24–25 Par.) & Its Jewish Source . Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 11(1); pp.87-108 Lourié notes the title 'Synoptic Apocalypse' (SA) implies that this material goes back to a common source; that "the same source was us...

I think that, if you wish to engage with people here, you need to make more of an effort to reduce your arguments to a few of the main points (and bring in more points as the discussion progresses) What should I spend hours reformating these points to make them as stand alone as possible, when I al...

... the origin of Christianity was probably a result of the destruction of the 2nd. Temple ... by the Romans in the year 70AD. True, but do you think the "crisis point in their identity with their monotheistic God ... facing the end of their Jewish faith in their God" came then of after t...

For the cultural background of what Irenaeus is talking about - who else - but Alan Brent - https://books.google.com/books?id=CMsbXm19LSQC&pg=PA293&lpg=PA293&dq=helios+cosmocrator&source=bl&ots=1ZVCNcfGoY&sig=H37FhfpMPR83EKGa6NB5LVLpbx4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_sK...

. via GakuseiDon - http://www.earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=54796#p54796 I argue in my chapter [in " How Jesus Became God "] that, for Paul, Jesus was an angel who became human. But so too did angels in the OT. But Jesus was actually *born*, which made him unique…. April 12, 201...

... Doherty and Carrier think Jesus was being portrayed as a dying/rising God... I'm not sure that is the key aspect of their arguments: they refer to dying and rising gods as being part of pre-Christian theologies, and think there was a vague gnostic-like theology of a dying and rising god [Christ...

This is a fascinating thread. eg. .... People like to say that ''Jesus is the most influential person in Western history''; if that's true, then 'Mark' deserves the real honour , since our Jesus is largely his invention. Of course, in Sunday school, it's usually Matthew's version of the story we get...

Michael BG wrote: Not all Diaspora Jews were Hellenised because some had lived in Babylonia and Persia from before the time of Alexander the Great.

Alexanders influenced extended that far. Could Jews in Babylon & Persia have become Hellenized before the Diaspora?

for prosperity [ posterity ? ] - lol, yes. These comments are interesting - .. I was surprised that the Parables of Enoch were not mentioned even once*. There is currently quite an industry in trying to explain the 'Son of Man' in these Parables as dependent on a mostly imaginary, or at least wishf...

I haven't read these but, having just found them, I thought I may as well put them here for prosperity posterity - Maurice Casey (1981) ' Son of Man: The Interpretation and Influence of Daniel 7 ' SPCK; London. 272 pp. (a revised version of Casey's 1977 PhD thesis) Maurice Casey (2009) The Solution ...