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Whether you could, if they let you, talk to MI6, but you cannot speak with ancient Christians, so? They knew who it referred to. If you have a different, alternate, reading, what is that? The whole thing is simply popular fiction. The "Church", IC, the letters, the Apostles... all of it. ...

So the question is: Are patristic scholars terrified that almost all patristic manuscripts are medieval and later? Isn't the late dating of most extant texts well-known, though? I've seen it acknowledged in lots of secondary sources when discussing provenance of texts like Justin Martyr's. The more...

Jack Bull asks about the neglect of Marcionite studies: Why have they -- why are colleagues (secular and biblical) -- not engaging with us properly ... about Marcionite studies? [/i] Jason BeDuhn gives the following answer: 24:45 "Intellectual inertia. And just to be very frank very poor qualit...

Whether you could, if they let you, talk to MI6, but you cannot speak with ancient Christians, so? They knew who it referred to. If you have a different, alternate, reading, what is that? The whole thing is simply popular fiction. The "Church", IC, the letters, the Apostles... all of it. ...

1600==> Blasphemy laws instituted in several historically Christian countries (After over 12 centuries the heresy laws had waned) 1627 - Codex Alexandrinus (5th C?) presented to King Charles I of England by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople 1697 - Thomas Aikenhead aged 20: last person hanged ...

Now that I think about it - James Bond and Ian Flemming - are a pretty good example of what has happened with the gospel Jesus story. The created literary figure of James Bond has had many actors play the part in movies. As the gospel Jesus historicsts have supplied many versions of their, assumed,...

In the mid 17th century the Catholic priest John Bolland and his team investigated the historicity of virtually all named Catholic saints, declaring huge numbers of their accounts to be ahistorical. Though his work was initially supported by the papacy, his writings ended up on the Roman Index of P...

According to Acts there was supposedly great fear over the management of money, property and tithing for the church industry. The penalty for mis-management was death by the hand of the Most High: 1 Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. 2 With his w...

Some of these have already been mentioned above. 1517 - The Reformation - started with the publication of the Ninety-five Theses, authored by Martin Luther. 1532-1583 - “supreme producer of epigraphic forgeries” unquestionably belongs to Pirro Ligorio (c. 1512–83). 1560-1966 - Publication of the Ind...

Now that I think about it - James Bond and Ian Flemming - are a pretty good example of what has happened with the gospel Jesus story. The created literary figure of James Bond has had many actors play the part in movies. As the gospel Jesus historicsts have supplied many versions of their, assumed,...