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I've been reading the primary texts (in translation) e.g. Hittite Myths by Hoffner. The basic argument that Mark Smith is making goes something like this. a/ In Bronze Age Syria Anatolia and Palestine there is a widespread myth in which a leading god typically the storm-god disappears, (sometimes af...

Revelation 11:8

and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.

Andrew Criddle

I can remember Carrier mentioning a possibility of the 500 in Corinthians being a textual corruption from something to do with Christ's appearance at the pentecost, because the words are somewhat similar and IIRC they show up at similar places in the order of resurrection appearances. Just wonderin...

Is it possible that Papias regarded Matthew as excessively paraphrastic (due to dodgy translation) but in chronological order ?
In that case Mark would be disordered due to having a different order to Matthew (regarded by Papias as chronologically sound).

Andrew Criddle

Some of the allusions in Justin Martyr are potentially linked to baptism or the eucharist.
Maybe Justin's church used a liturgy based (partly) on John's Gospel but Justin himself did not use the Gospel of John as scripture.

Andrew Criddle

See Talmud Sanhedrin Antoninus said to Rabbi: The body and the soul of a human may free themselves on the day of judgment by Heaven. How so? The body may say: The soul has sinned; for since she has departed I lie in the grave like a stone. And the soul may say: The body has sinned; for since I am se...

I read in a mythicist book that, in polemic against Celsus, ''Origen denies that Jesus is said to be a carpenter in any Gospel current in the Churches''. Can you say me where precisely Origen did so? Therefore is Mark 6:3 of Mark an interpolation made after Origen? Is not this the carpenter , the s...

........................... Skarsaune says in note 37 to this that he is following Bauckham in Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church pages 70-79, but those pages aren't viewable for me on Google books, so I can't check that. Nor can I find the Letter of James to Quadratus. Try https:/...

Hi Ben IIUC you are suggesting that c 100 CE, Johannine community leaders were claiming that someone whom they had known, and who was only relatively recently dead, had been a disciple of Jesus during Jesus' earthly life, but that this claim was probably a fabrication. Formally this is possible but ...

For Tertullian you might try looking on Roger Pearse's site http://www.tertullian.org/

Andrew Criddle