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To be remembered is that Early Christian Writings is deliberately chronological. The upper bound is AD 325 . Yes. Please note in what I listed above: "Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter" from the Nag Hammadi library that Wikipedia dates to 100-200 AD. Gospel of Cerinthus ( c.100 AD or earlier ) ...

The Early Writings website lists the Coptic Apocalypse of Peter (200-300 A.D.) I think that this is the "Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter" from the Nag Hammadi library that Wikipedia dates to 100-200 AD. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic_Apocalypse_of_Peter) Which date do you think is righ...

See my posts below for 1st c. works that I've found that are not on the Early Writings website (http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/index.html). See also: Early to mid 2nd c. works on Christianity missing from our forum's website (http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3072) Agraph...

Thanks for your answers. I would prefer to think that copies of early Christian writings from before Justin's DIALOGUE have remained in archives someplace, waiting to be found by scholars. Occasionally we have turned up fragments of gospels like the gospel of Peter, although that was not quite in a ...

The clear sense of Mark 4:11-12 is that Jesus deliberately is hiding the meaning of his parable in order that the audience cannot receive his forgiveness. Mark 4:11-12 11 He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parable...

The prediction of the destruction of the Temple (Mk 13:2) is a Christian creation after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE. I am not aware of any Jewish eschatological expectation that the earthly Temple would be destroyed during the eschatological event and so I have no reason for Jesus to tell his di...

This is a bit off topic, but it's a major disappointment to me and confusing how writers like Irenaeus and Jerome and Clement of Alexandria make reference to various famous writers and literature like that of Papias or various Hebrew/Nazarene "gospels" or Hegesippus and yet these writings ...

I think John was not the first written gospel, as I think it was written to fill in stories not in whatever Synoptic gospel(s) he had available (eg. Matthew). I think that this explains why there is so much difference between the two. Some theologians think that the difference means that the events ...

It can be a reference to Mark 16 and surviving snakebites - ie not getting hurt by snakes in that passage, vv 10-20.

Bradley could have raised another flag elsewhere on the island at a different time and confused it.
Otherwise, I am inclined to think that he would be lying, basically telling a tall tale, or embellishing the facts.