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Ben, some further ones from Ascension of Isaiah. The ones from Chap 2 are really just variations on the Manasseh quote you have already in the OP so may not add anything, but the one in Chap 9 might be pertinent: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/ascension.html Chap 2.2. And Manasseh forso...

While I agree, Carrier's minimal mythicism position is that a celestial Jesus incarnated and was killed above the earth. While Carrier does state that such a Jesus could have been killed elsewhere (for example, under the earth), it's not what he argues in his book. The lack of such examples in anci...

Ben, the author of GMatthew would have known that he used a Greek GMark as a base. It's more likely that the name tag "Matthew" would have been given by someone who did not know that. Look at you, Joe, arguing for a more innocent stream of transmission while I am arguing for the equivalen...

You are guessing that the original author of GMatthew titled it *Matthew*? No. I am suggesting that the author passed it off as a Greek translation of Hebrew Matthew. A title is not necessarily required for attribution; many attributed Hebrews to Paul, for example, despite neither the text nor the ...

What is the significance of the fact that "the tax collector" is called Matthew, not Levi, in Matthew's gospel? Could it have played a role in the original association of the first Gospel with Matthew? It has been suggested that Justin Martyr, though familiar with the gospels, was not awa...

andrewcriddle wrote:This would seem to require 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 to be an interpolation.
(Theoretically one could imagine a Jewish slave of a Jewish master crucified by his master in contravention of Jewish halakah, but it seems unlikely.)

I agree with this.

Is there a theory under the Farrer Hypothesis for why Luke might have changed Matthew's death narrative for Judas? Luke's intention seems to be to remove Judas' repentance. In Matthew. Judas repents, gives the money back and kills himself. In Acts, there is no implication of repentance, Judas does ...

If passages such as 1 Thessalonians 4.15 (in which the author seems to expect to be alive at the parousia ) are clues that the Pauline epistles were really written while Paul was still alive, then does 1 Timothy offer a clue that this pastoral epistle was written while Timothy was still alive? 1 Tim...

Right. So do you think it possible that Paul and his circle discovered from such passages that Jesus was actually a slave or servant in a sense literal enough both to prove consonant with crucifixion and to provide a master who might do the crucifying, as opposed to state authorities? At least in t...

It may be significant that the first epistle to Timothy both acknowledges the role of Pontius Pilate (6.13) and also simultaneously sheds some of the abovementioned Pauline and Petrine naïveté concerning rulers; 1 Timothy 2.1-2 NASB: 1 First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petition...