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Funny that Celsus thought that Judaism appropriation was from Egypt the nation.

fwiw, autendw has expressed an interest in returning after he does some more reading

I got a different sense from his explicit mention of fatigue, aggravation and irritability. You are a mythicist though. Keep making up these stories.

Bad humanities scholarship can be like a Ponzi scheme. Those who establish certain models have a vested interest in encouraging ever more engagement with their ideas. The system depends on it. It can actively discourage rival approaches and understandings purely based on the vested interest for enga...

The next scene where John appears. Remember the original group of Jews tried to kill Jesus but died trying (attempting to push him over the cliffs of Jerusalem passing through his body and plunging into the abyss). Now John takes issue with Jesus. Tertullian writes in chapter 18: But John is offende...

Irenaeus on the followers of Mark and their interpretation of this passage: Moreover, by His not replying to those who said to Him, "By what power doest Thou this?"(4) but by a question on His own side, put them to utter confusion; by His thus not replying, according to their interpretatio...

My suggestion for reconstruction of the Marcionite gospel: He entered the synagogue as was his custom, on the Sabbath day ... and had begun to teach ... at Bethsaida among the Jews ... HE DECLARED THE ANTITHESES MATT 5:17 - 47 ... they were amazed at his teachings and wondered by what authority he t...

I think these pieces were cut and moved to different places in the narrative to fit with the eventual shape of the Gospel of Luke. STEP 1: Baarda's Reconstruction of the scene from the Marcionite gospel: He entered the synagogue as was his custom, on the Sabbath day ... and had begun to teach ... he...

John chapter 8. Tertullian Apology. Origen on the Good Samaritan.

I think Tertullian says that a mother of the disciples said "Blessed is the womb which bore you."

If people look at ACTUAL PATRISTIC TEXTS about Marcion they will see the "Jewishness" of the descent. From Ephrem: And did not the Maker learn from the descent of Isu that he was also to ascend, so that as there was no one who perceived him when he came down, in like manner he would remove...