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Since it contradicts what Paul (utterly in line with his stance that what he preaches is 'my Gospel') says about having received the Gospel from 'no man', it's obviously an interpolation as regards 3 & 4 at least. I don't see that contradiction. Finding a resurrected messiah in the LXX (also no...

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I'm inclined to think that Paul didn't really have that much about his savior. He would only talk about christ crucified, which is convenient if he didn't want to talk about the life of that savior, given that he may not have known anything about said life. He seemed not to be interested in said li...

I did not see an explanation of why he translates "apostolus" as "emissary." He is an advocate of translating terms in their basic meaning if you are not sure they have a specific one. And the term "apostle" has different meanings, depending on who used it. Edit: or re...

Thanks. I'm guessing that Reitzenstein was seeing the Mandeans as primarily a sect that evolved out of Zoroastrianism, and since that religion is older than Christianity, the Mandeans therefore have priority, ergo Gnosticism has priority. Yes, this is exactly as he saw it. He saw direct Persian inf...

It doesn't help much with Galatians itself, but what about Trobisch's thesis that Paul first produced a selection of reworked letters himself (in Trobisch's suggestion that would be Romans, 1+2 Corinthians, Galatians)? That's definitely anachronistic for Galatians, but it may mean some kind of precu...

spin wrote:Get rid of the notion of MML&J when thinking about Paul's usage of "gospel". Take it as it was used in the historical context: good news.

I always think of 1Cor 15 when Paul's gospel is mentioned.

Yeah, if Reitzenstein actually wrote anything that supports this statement: "...Reitzenstein took the Mandaeans and their texts as the key expression of a pre-Christian Gnosticism. Moreover, he also posited that these texts demonstrated a pre-Christian gnostic redeemer myth from which the sort...

That's twice you've dodged what I asked you. The subject here is not Carrier's arrogance. I asked you, and I repeat, Please provide an example where Carrier made "statements of fact that are unguarded, undocumented or outright misstatements of fact". Twice at least you have made claims ab...

Since Reitzenstein’s Das iranische Erlöserungsmysterium was never translated into English, it's impossible to know how accurate this statement is. Well, the eBook is free, so it's relatively easy to look up. Then again, I'm not that interested in reading the whole 272 pages. Anything specific you w...