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I find the English versions of Galatians1:1 ambiguous ESV: Paul, an apostle— not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— 2 and all the brothers who are with me It would be interesting to see the original Greek interpreted. What ambiguity ...

Common negatives between my list and yours: 1. Hero's mother is a royal virgin; (-) 2. His father is a king, and (-) 3. Often a near relative of his mother, but (-) 19. Often at the top of a hill, (-) 20. His children, if any do not succeed him. (-) 21. His body is not buried, but nevertheless (-) C...

I deliberately decided to hold off on reading your comments first, in order to read the list itself and give an independent reading. 1. Hero's mother is a royal virgin; [-] 2. His father is a king, and [-] 3. Often a near relative of his mother, but [-] 4. The circumstances of his conception are unu...

Some scholars and even humble lay people do, you know, follow the evidence and come to conclusions against their own personal preferences and pet-theories. (The leading popularizers of mythicism since late last century are actually staunch defenders of the Q hypothesis, by the way.) This is exactly...

Are you getting sick of all this yet.... ;) There's now a write-up on the blog... http://peterkirby.com/basic-stylometry-101.html Of all the techniques that could be used to study ancient texts, there are a few that stand out as being both very important and largely understudied, being either ignore...

If his theory (and those like his) of the formation of the Pauline corpus are correct, stylometry will probably be of little use. We can have some hope to test specific claims of extensive, specific interpolation--like we did with 'shorter'/'longer' Romans in this thread. It's the small, little, oc...

Still, I'd like to see 2 Timothy and Titus compared to Acts. Oh, they were. No dice. Better match for Paul. Not-so-good compatibility with Acts. Below: $VAR1 = Paul (1 Cor, 2 Cor, Gal, 1 Thess) $VAR2 = Hebrews $VAR3 = Acts But here's the combined 2 Timothy & Titus reading: testsize: 1897 Bayesi...

And speaking of wasting people's time, is there a reason why you choose to separate your questions into umpteen different posts. Is that some new tactic that the mythicist community has handed down? One thing's clear: It isn't brain surgery to see that any mythicist is going to automatically side w...

Ben C. Smith wrote:Awesome! Thanks so much.

Of course! Just let us know what you discover.

Stone wrote:

Peter Kirby wrote:I sincerely hope that you don't mind, but I do believe this deserves to be the start of a new thread.

O.K., but I don't like the title. I'd prefer something like "Earliest Jesus stratum?"

Thank you,

Stone

Sure no problem.