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If you're so crazy about your wife Stephen, then your main "sin" is spending more time on these forums than you do with her. I think we may know you better than your wife does.

Point #10 in the introduction in interesting: No longer can Acts be assumed to be historical unless proven otherwise. Rather, the burden of proof has shifted. Acts must be considered non-historical unless proven otherwise. This is the cumulative result of the accomplishments noted above. One is tem...

D11. Consider also E.P. Sanders’ argument: the passages that attribute these predictions to Jesus and Paul satisfy the historical criteria of multiple attestation (and forms), embarrassment, earliest strata (Mark, Q, M, L, Paul’s earliest letters, the ancient “Maranatha” creed/hymn) etc., thus stro...

First we need to establish what kind of literary work the gospels are. Then we can talk about whether Jesus was an "apocalyptic prophet." I don't see a good reason to believe that the gospels are based on oral history. If that cannot be established, then assumptions about Jesus's ideas or ...

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae How is it done? Do you have to subscribe? Does it cost? Jeffrey Gibson provided a great deal of extremely good examples of TLG searches but all this has been lost on the OF. Can anyone here answer these questions in order to lift the level of the quality of the data under ...

Is it possible to get this as a spreadsheet?

According to Haddlebury, the idea of inventing a wholly fraudulent ancient culture came about when he and other scholars realized they had no idea what had actually happened in Europe during the 800-year period before the Christian era.

Ah, the spirit of Biblical writing lives on!

Another point of contact between the Pauline letters and the pre-70 AD period occurs in 2 Cor 12:31-33, which has the passage about Paul being let down in a basket through a window in the wall to escape the "ethnarch under King Aretas," the last known Nabatean king by this name having die...

I deny that Judaism has within it, the notion of a demigod, with a human mother and a supernatural deity, producing a supernatural child. That tradition, in my opinion, dewitness, is coming from Greek mythology, not Judaism. To me, it is Jesus' supernatural existence, that defines Christianity. As ...

We have no concern with whether there is a theological claim in all this. I'm afraid it's too late for that. Jesus was/is a theological figure. He may also have been an historical figure, but his supposed historicity is so bound up with theology that the two cannot be separated. It's quite possible...