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The account of Hegesippus is fiction only this James can go in the holy place? that's not how it worked, right? This means everything he says is suspect. Yes there are multiple James' it seems to me 'the Just' is a way to distinguish him from the Lord's brother and Hegesippus is trying to combine th...

curve balls? the Aramaic targums what do they say? 2nd - have you considered the coptic letters from Kelis? i have a book of those, fascinating if nothing else cause they're normal life letters but some written to/from manichean elects. they are mostly 'pastoral' though 'hey when you travel to Luxor...

ah thanks for that, interesting i've sometimes seen Thomas on Buddhist leaning websites. the similarities esoteric branches of religions have always fascinate me, i see that as the origin of Christianity coming from the Jewish side of things. but it's just a guess i admit that, no-one knows for sure...

Not exactly what you were after but the gospel of philip contains an eyewitness statement Philip the apostle said, "Joseph the carpenter planted a garden because he needed wood for his trade. It was he who made the cross from the trees which he planted. His own offspring hung on that which he p...

But GMark and GMatthew and GLuke do not claim to have been written by eyewitnesses. Well, Luke claims the eyewitnesses gave it to his people at the same time as acknowledging other gospels existed. I read this as meaning the other, older, gospels were not reliable and here is one that is. They woul...

freeze things at mid/late 2nd century - there is 1 Peter + Acts and the Luke prologue...booooom about the time eye witnesses start to come forward! Justin's on the cusp. Before him - the Shephard of Hermas has no gospels, or Hebrews or the pastorals or the apostle or revelation. Even Acts has no gos...

isn't Paul nascent Christianity, sure catholic christianity seems to be 3rd century but where to draw the line, they were still arguing even after it became state religion lol the Pilate dating locks Jesus apart from any other messiah types rumoured or known to be lurking, what I notice about the go...

Syriac
ܫܡܐ Name SH-M-A
ܫܡܫܐ Sun, also 'one who serves/servant' SH-M-SH-A
ܣܗܪܐ ݂݂Moon, S-H-R-A
ܣܝܢܐ Moon, S-I-N-A

This is the problem. If you were to send a news reporter back in time to interview the historical Jesus would we expect Jesus to talk 'normal' like he was just another guest on the program. No. He would define the 'state of consciousness' of the interview and start interviewing the interviewer. You ...

We should also add Revelation chapter 12 to this discussion. It's a very astrological birth of Jesus story with the sun and moon featured. Yeah, I think some parts of Revelation contain elements of an earlier type gospel which used symbols like the tree of life, the crowning, the wedding banquet, t...