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Joe Check out this statement by Carrier on the subject of Eusebius saying Josephus talked about Jesus after he talked about John the Baptist. Its in the comments in his reply to #12. "Eusebius doesn’t say the TF came after the Baptist passage. That’s in English translations, but not the Greek. ...

From a comment by Roberta Mazza on her blog post here: https://facesandvoices.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/mark-strikes-back-mummy-cartonnage-and-christian-apologetics-again/ " .....2. there is not a single example of New Testament papyrus coming from mummy cartonnage so far, 3. the use of recycled...

The literary function of the disciples in g"Mark' was to act as the questioning voice of the author so that his principal character had questions to answer. Somebody has to ask the questions that JC answers, its his answers that are the key to the story. In g"Mark" its the job of the ...

I've seen John the Baptist's left hand. Well, one of them, he had 3 apparently. The one I saw was in Topkapi in Istanbul - along with hairs from Mohammed's beard. And the finger bone of Mark the purported author of the gospel of that name, along with lots of other goodies in Basilica San Marco in Ve...

I read page 1 - that seemed to be far enough to get the tone. Apologies if that is not so and I've missed a major relevant point not raised previously in multiple fora. It seems to me that this question is just another example of projection by the questioner. Its an attempt at a smear, a diversion, ...

http://www.reltech.org/TC/v16/Bagnall2011rev.pdf http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9059.pdf Roger Bagnall has written a book on palaeography and Egyptian papyri which includes p52. He is highly critical of Christian dating of such. Above is a review of his book and below that an extract from the ...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Simonides FWIW . According to opinion of paleographers, he was the most versatile forger of the nineteenth century.[1] On 13 September 1862, in an article of The Guardian, he claimed that he is the real author of the Codex Sinaiticus and that he wrote it in 1...

Very interesting - thanks - I will read and re-read slowly.

"Saint Mark' D. Nineham, Pelican NT Commentaries UK 1975 Commentary on "Mark" 8.24 pp 216-219 "As for the pagan parallels, most scholars see them ... as suggesting that the 2 stories [7.31-37 is the other] 'were developed, if not originated, in the syncretistic atmosphere of the ...