Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

What is your point, though? From the looks of it, there was testing in 2014, and it wasn't published until well after I wrote that blog post. In scholarship, (as you wrote) 1) there are some things that are known to be true, 2) some things that are known to be false, 3) some things that are simply ...

The beginnings of IS XS worship look thoroughly compatible with the influential Roman obsession of using abbreviations in written or inscribed media.

In scholarship, there are some things that are known to be true, some things that are known to be false, some things that are simply unknown (whether true or false), and some matters of opinion and speculation that are keenly debated. But there are also things that are known to be false that are of...

When I created my BCE Paul I did so by taking the so called "authentic" letters literally and assuming a Jewish Paul predating the Gospel stories. This is false. My entire thesis was based on an erroneous point of view. "Paul", whatever the actual source might have been, is clea...

Bruno Bauer, Abraham Dirk Loman, Rudolph Steck, Willem Christiaan van Manen, G. A. Bergh van Eysinga, Hermann Detering, Robert Price and others theorise all of Paul’s letters are 2nd century forgeries. Carrier and the Mainstream Dating Game: Defending a 4th Century terminus ad quem for Christian Or...

In scholarship, there are some things that are known to be true, some things that are known to be false, some things that are simply unknown (whether true or false), and some matters of opinion and speculation that are keenly debated. But there are also things that are known to be false that are of...

Former [Australian] prime minister Scott Morrison is set to reveal in detail how his Christian faith influenced him, in a memoir to be published in May 2024. The 288-page book, Plans for Your Good - A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness, will be published by Thomas Nelson, a division o...

One can still look at the text of the extant Refutation of All Heresies (aka Philosophumena ) manuscript relative to the text of the extant manuscripts of Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, etc., and make determinations of what one manuscript's text says relative to another and what the overall theol...

(1) The extant Philosophumena manuscript, even if it is from the 14th century, is at least a thousand years removed from its purported century of origin. Where is the scholarly skepticism? What could possibly go wrong with M David Litwa's reconstruction of early Christian identities and history base...