Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

In case it is of interest to some here, if I may pass along information, amazon.com lists the book as forthcoming. (Curiously, before Yale U Press website or WorldCat list it.) The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Controversial Scholar, a Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, and the Fierce Debate over Its Authentici...

Though I am not currently accepting homework assignments from Mr. Godfrey, I have commented on the Berossus and Manetho book, including at amazon.
Mr. Gmirkin fancifully assigned homework to Hebrew Bible authors, a fictional syllabus of Greek texts for his imaginary Alexandria c. 273-272 crash course.

The "Now" in "Now Plato?" refers to Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:29 am, time of writing. I.e., added Greek writer. I already gave a page number, Berossus page 2, quoted from previous online text, with reasons, more than once. That did not satisfy you; it seems a safe bet that more would no...

Maybe relevant:

The Johannine Gospel in gnostic exegesis :
Heracleon's commentary on John
Pagels, Elaine H., 1943-
Nashville : Abingdon Press
1973
128 pages ; 24 cm.
Based on the author's thesis, Harvard, 1970.

Of course Alexander the Great was quite influtential,
but,
before he came through,
the ancient near east
was not a blank slate.

passive aggressive nonsense aside

As far as I know no translation is beyond question.

If I understand R. Gmirkin's proposal correctly. in c. 273-272 a bilingual group (perhaps 70 or 72, perhaps reflected in Letter of Aristaeus, which RG thinks partly accurate, partly not) went to the Alexandria library, read Plato, Berossus, and some other Greek writers, and wrote the entire Torah, w...

In several posts (search "harmony gospel") Pete (mm, lc) suggested a harmony gospel (more often called a gospel harmony) may have been split into four. (By Constantine and co.) Nevermind Irenaeus, Origen, etc. Nevermind that a "harmony" suggests earlier sources. Nevermind how (if...

MrMacSon is correct that it was Theodosius who established Christianity as the official state religion.
That Constantine did so is a common error.
Oh wait, Pete--now you take Eusebius as "reliable and accurate"?