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Thanks, I had overlooked that one somehow!

While Codex Tchacos is mainly famous for providing us with a copy of the Gospel of Judas, it also apparently contains a more complete version of the First Apocalypse of James than the one found in the Nag Hammadi library. However, only the version from NH has been translated and published in English...

I can see how a martyred rebel or sage might generate legends and a following among Palestinian Jews. It's harder to see how that would lead to different Christs (plural, as Paul puts it) being taught in diaspora synagogues and venerated by Greek god-fearers with no attachment to Palestine or Jewish...

If you search JSTOR for articles on Tacitus, you find a few dealing with the grammatical incongruities in the section about Nero and Christians. There are mistakes due to tampering or editing that haven't been fixed by the author or redactor. One scholar has apparently suggested that the passage was...

I'm investigating the possibility that "Oblias", an alternate name of James the Just according to Hegesippus, was actually a corruption of "Obdias" (i.e. "Obadiah"). Lambda and delta are fairly easy letters to mix up in a handwritten manuscript. I'm coming up almost bla...

Yeah, I don't buy Eisenmann's conclusions, but I think there might be something to the connection between his title ("just") and the Teacher of Righteousness, the sons of Zadok, etc.

Peter Kirby: It looks like your reply to me replaced my comment, but your comment is attributed to me. Could you fix that?

Thanks for the link. That is a remarkable bit of research you have done. You ought to polish it up and publish it.

So far, I see a clear sequence in the development of the character's identity, tied closely to the invention of a Jerusalem episcopate, which is most certainly a misinformed view of the Palestinian church held by later Greek Christians. There is also confusion among various writers regarding the num...

I've been amusing myself by figuring out if James the Just existed. Thus far, I have gone over every reference to James (anyone by that name) in the texts on this site as well as all the Pre-Nicene Fathers and the Nicene fathers up to Eusebius.

Another reason for me to work on my German, I guess!