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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.

Don't underestimate the extraordinary fecundity of the 'hive mind' trying to milk all the connections they can out of these texts. Are you referring to someone today? or someone in antiquity? or both? I'm referring to everyone today . Of all the 'connections' posited and 'coincidences' ruled out of...

The authenticity of the scholia to the Apocalypse has been repeatedly questioned see the footnote here https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6RQBPIaelwAC&pg=PA46&dq=%22origen%22+Scholia+in+Apocalypsem+ramelli+purification+harnack&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rDh3VY72OIP8UJXMgMAG&ved=0CCQQuwU...

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

Secret Alias wrote:The other possibility that you haven't considered is that the Pastorals and Ephesians were developed around a chunk or chunks of authentic Pauline material.

I considered that too. Maybe I haven't "mentioned," but I have considered.

The passage has invited all sorts of speculation: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%208:9-24 Some would say that the rampant speculation began in the second century itself.... Justin Martyr (IMO) seems like the 'best' source for Simon due to being relatively early, from the same coun...

I assume he just doesn't want to deal with the comments (= spend a lot of time on them) but feels obligated to say something. TBH.

I wrote: Thank you for this important post. It is some much-needed commentary on an often-neglected topic. I’m sure you would agree that we can divide the subject into two questions: (1) the historicity of an apostle Paul and (2) the authenticity of the letters attributed to Paul. Your point about t...