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. Clement of Rome d.99 Starting in the 3rd and 4th century,[2] tradition has identified him as the Clement that Paul mentioned in Philippians 4:3, a fellow laborer in Christ. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_I#Life Clement is known for an epistle to the church in Corinth - 1 Clement - (c....

Let H = the hypothesis be "that MrMacSon is Carrier" Let P(H) - the prior probability (before said new evidence) - be 0.05 Let E be the supposed new evidence that MacSon is Carrier: let P(E) be 0.5 let P(E|H) - the probability of observing E given H - be 0.75 P(H|E) - the probability that ...

. Let's try to use terminology that is defined & seems to be applicable to what we might want to do with information or data around Jesus. This from wikipedia seems applicable - . Introduction to Bayes' rule Formal Bayesian inference derives the posterior probability as a consequence of two ant...

Let's try to break this down. Firstly, do you agree with the following way of approximating a probability using a reference class?: P(A|B) = (elements that matches A and B) / (Elements that matches B) ( if not, what is the correct way ? ) I wondered if I needed to read Proving History , OHJ , and r...

http://kapyong.5gbfree.com/Carrier/Elements.html Element 1. The earliest form of Christianity definitely known to us originated as a Jewish sect in the region of Syria-Palestine. Element 1 is the explanation of the origins of Christianity. What is the earliest form of Christianity definitely known ...

I may get this totally wrong and if so I apologize but I'm going to try and crudely express what I think is a key issue without the complexities of Bayes theorem. Let A be the probability that there was an historical Jesus. Let B be the probability that Jesus was believed to have lived and died upo...

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Aposynogogos is discussed here, too -

Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches (2002) by Anthony J. Blasi, Paul-André Turcotte, Jean Duhaime; Rowman Altamira: 802 pages.

Today I studied the 2015 (37(5) p. 56) Journal for the Study of the New Testament. From the book review of Peder Borgen's ' The Gospel of John: More Light from Philo, Paul, and Archaeology ' -- "Borgen sees much more similarity between John and Paul and even supposes that the Gospel of John co...

We have plenty of proto-Catholic writers attacking "heresies" all over the place well before 380. Where is the mythcists denomination? Exactly, they don't make an appearance. Also I'd like to add that appealing to a conspiracy is never going to make a good argument. I'm not sure whether y...

Thanks for the comments and links. As I said in the OP I'm not a scholar. I I don't know why people think it's playing tricks asking questions. I think if one cant answer or provide some other opinion to the questions in the OP they just shouldn't bother to answer. I wasn't sure what you were refer...