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It's amusing to me how i am simultaneously arguing with someone with the opposite viewpoint from you on another thread: Jesus' appearances to James http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2015&start=60 John2 is proposing that Christianity in the 1st century based around James, Jer...

Right now I find myself debating two opposite people on two threads. Over on the "Resurrection" thread, Guiseppe is arguing that Christianity is a religion made up from paganism, especially the empty tomb story in all four gospels: http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=201...

Perhaps the enemies found the bodies of Gaius or Tholomeus and then somehow this was missed or confused in accounts, which were written at a later time. Or perhaps they actually secretly escaped the battle? Perhaps someone will think that these are reasonable possibilities, even if not likely. Or m...

Take the yeshua/yoshia pun in the Shem Tov Hebrew Mt. 1:21 for an example, which you may be familiar with already (Gordon has a book on it I haven't read yet). As Garza notes: "It provides strong evidence in favor of the theory that there was a Hebrew or Aramaic oral or written tradition behin...

But regarding the omission of the Great Commission in Shem Tov's Matthew, Howard notes (on pg, 216 if the link doesn't send you directly to it) that even so, "The Gentiles [in the ST Hebrew Matthew] are given a reward in the Kingdom of Heaven, but only at the end of the present age" and t...

Rakovsky, I can't access your links about Gordon and your comments about him, nor am I able to download the link to his critic, unfortunately. Dear John 2, First, click the link below: http://trradio.com/why-nehemia-gordon-is-wrong-about-matthew-233 If that does not work, type that link into your a...

That the Damascus Document was found in a Karaite synagogue in Egypt two thousand years after it was written shows that Jews preserved writings for a long time, even those written by other sects. Just because a copy of a work found today in a group's library dates to the 1st century does not mean t...

"Yes, if the Toledoth was found in a written copy that dated to 35-400 AD, that would be a different story. Instead, we are looking at medieval forgeries in the Toledoth and Shem Tov." I think Howard makes a good case that the Shem Tov Hebrew Matthew at least pre-dates Shem Tov, and nothi...

Rakovsky wrote: "I am confused. What do you mean by the "Hebrew version"? The medieval Shem Tov?" Yes. It is the only Hebrew version I have mentioned in this thread so I didn't think I needed to clarify that, and sorry for the confusion. "It would be a mistake to simply see...

"1000 years is a long time for something to be passed down correctly with no other record of it. So I am pretty skeptical of that." Not to defend the veracity of the Toledoth Yeshu, but your comment brings to mind the Damascus Document, which was found almost two thousand years later with...