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"For many deceivers are entered into the world,
who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.
This is a deceiver and an antichrist." (2 John 1:7)

@Leucius Charinus Thanks for this, very helpful. This question relates to the book "Forgery in Christianity" by Joseph Wheless located here: https://infidels.org/library/historical ... istianity/ I have previously directed your attention to this. Have you reviewed the work? If so what are...

I'm looking for some sort of summary of Christian literature by genre, era and perhaps language that was produced between the 2nd century and the 16th century. Any ideas? I have put forward a Proposition: There are Three Major Classes of Christian Literature https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopi...

2) The involvement of the papal archeologist Giovanni Battista de Rossi, even at arm's length, rings all sorts of warning bells for me. 3) The involvement of Pope Pius IX who "moved beyond collecting [Christian relics] by appointing a commission - "Commissione de archaelogia sacra" -...

I have read Ehrman's Forgery and Counter Forgery , as well as Candida Moss' Myth of Persecution , both of which deal with forgery in a limited scope. But are there are good studies that document the full scope of Christian forgery from the earliest documents up through the modern era? I'd like to g...

(1) “a figment of pious imagination” (2) 'accusations of fraud - the original eyewitnesses invented the graffito and that “in fact, probably no one ever saw it!” The above isn't critical and rational; it's a statement of prejudices. The prejudice is directed against efforts to masquerade a pious fr...

A separate thread to discuss the earliest purported Christian inscription. I have added two links to papers on the "Christianos Graffito" found at Pompeii (buried in 79 CE) in the 19th century. The discussion of the inscription has always been marred by association with far-fetched specula...

2. The earliest example of contracted nomina sacra on inscriptions Currently, I don't know whether this is true for Greek inscriptions. When I went through the Greek inscriptions, I skipped over the ones that were abbreviated, so I don't have a record of them. I also don't know anything directly ab...

2. The earliest example of contracted nomina sacra on inscriptions are the Dura-Europos graffiti in the chapel, dated A.D. 232-3 (EDE 1931/2, p.241) It should be pointed out that "contracted nomina sacra" is not a redundancy. All "nomina sacra" are abbreviated. Not all of them a...

"The use of abbreviations is, on the whole, as foreign to the Greeks as it is congenial to the Romans and Byzantines.” Do you agree with this, and if so, what do you believe that it means in concrete terms? The claim was made by Avi-Yona c.1940, a professional epigraphist, so I would tend to g...