Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Literally anybody who appreciated good writing? The inclusion of any of the badly written or controversial interpolations would be a better argument for the need of an authority figure to enforce their inclusion than a chapter which people would accept anyway. In any case, the evidence that Marcion ...

That's a pretty graphic mother metaphor in which the Corinthians are babies being breast fed by the writer. That's a pretty odd thing for Paul or any man to think of writing, isn't it? Isaiah attributes maternal qualities to God somewhere (working from memory here). Also, Jesus compares himself to ...

I do think that chapters 1-4 of 1 Corinthians represent a separate letter which has been made to appear a part of the larger whole. I don't think it was written by Paul. Much of it speaks of Paul in the third person, it places Paul in equal status to Apollos and also includes this: 1 But I, brothers...

I think the basic idea is quite plausible. Not for the crucifixion alone, but the entire story. The Gospel of Mark gives us a Jesus with no genealogy linking him to David who shows no interest in reuniting Israel and ruling it. He has no interest in destroying the enemies of Israel and leading it to...

What a fantastically well timed thread! I just spent weeks weeks pondering on and researching Celsus and trying to figure out when it was written and what effect it had on the development of Christianity! My own conclusion, reached only yesterday, was that The True Word was written between the annex...