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Outhouse, reference please. Are you referring to Pfann's dig? Not sure, over the years I have read everything out on the topic. What's the proof that the rock cut places are first century? \ Oh its vague at best, and nothing concrete before 70 CE In another forum I tried finding a scholar friend of...

Modern Israel puts up settlements willy-nilly but in the old days their had to be a practical reason for their location. Do you think the rock cut channels going to the stepped walls for a little level growing area that dates to the first century, would be a good evidence? The population of Sepphor...

Why waist time on someone else imagination?


Taking on unicorns next ?

I find the question as to the existence of Nazareth to be beside the point when an examination of the gospels shows that Nazareth was not part of the earliest available Jesus traditions in those gospels. Very credible point. But having a dump like Nazareth not mentioned when building divinity to co...

I find the question as to the existence of Nazareth to be beside the point when an examination of the gospels shows that Nazareth was not part of the earliest available Jesus traditions in those gospels. Very credible point. But having a dump like Nazareth not mentioned when building divinity to co...

Paul persecuted, and he himself was persecuted. Of course, Paul gives no indication whatever that he persecuted people while Jesus was alive. Why didn't Paul persecute Jesus? Hadn't he heard of him until he was dead? Because Jesus had no fame at all until he was martyred at Passover. The mythology ...

Salm is a clown, period. Just because much of the church was built over the supposed oldest part of the village so no digging can be done, does not mean the town did not exist. The NT literature is not just confusing Nazarenes, for a village wjhere no good can come from it. Sepphoris was being rebui...

Do you not find our only tangible report of christian persecution in the first century . NO Paul persecuted, and he himself was persecuted. Nero persecuted. (Ann. 15.44) highly problematic? LOL no. Did the Romans have any interest in christians qua christians before Decius? Yes. Decius brought on n...

5) If Jesus Christ of the gospels was a literary invention (which he was even from my admission above; so let’s say a literary creation ex nihilo from the Mythists’ perspective) then for what reason? So that a heretical sect of Aramaic Jews and later non-Jewish Greeks could be persecuted by its mai...

What's so natural about a martyred man at Passover generating all the legends and mythology that are on display? The temple was corrupt, and we had a sharp socioeconomic divide between Hellenistic Jews and traditional peasant Jews. Passover was always a powder keg waiting to blow. In Galilee a peas...