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I suggested in another thread that IF Origen's text of Josephus was interpolated to read not James but James the Just then ir would explain Origen's belief that Josephus regarded the death of James (the spilling of the blood of the righteous one) as the cause of the fall of Jerusalem. Andrew Criddl...

That the "Letter" was not written by Clement, imo, is by now rather well established. The Trump "I hear" argument. No it is not 'established.' How can something "too Clementine to be Clement" at once be "obviously" not by Clement. There's just this insane wil...

I would go so far as to suggest that a very plausible case can (and has) been made that the Parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10 and the story of the Samaritan Woman in John 4 are, at least in the canonical form in which we have them, compositions by the evangelists in whose gospels they appear...

Personally, I think one of the better arguments for the inauthenticity of the James mention is the compound faultiness of its authentications by Origen and Eusebius. Origen gets everything else wrong about Josephus's treatment of James, but somehow for many observers this doesn't cast doubt that Or...

The claim about Hilarius may be a distortion of Eunapius Where we have two passages: a/ The end of Eleusis during the invasion of Alaric Now when his studies with them were prospering, he heard that there was a higher wisdom in Greece, possessed by the hierophant of the goddesses,67 and hastened to...

IF Gmirkin is suggesting (adapting Jellicoe's position on the LXX) that the Torah originated in Alexandria as a result of a collaboration between Jerusalem and Jewish scholars in Egypt, then (on the standard model of Samaritan history) its acceptance as Scripture by the Samaritan community would be...

In Personal Religion in Egypt Before Christianity , W.M. Flinders Petrie wrote, p.79 : “Hermetic works are in fact the scriptures of the Ascetics {e.g. Therapeutae}.” Petrie (1909) does not mention either Ménard or Delaunay, and his would appear to be the first academic work in the English language...

The claim about Hilarius may be a distortion of Eunapius Where we have two passages: a/ The end of Eleusis during the invasion of Alaric Now when his studies with them were prospering, he heard that there was a higher wisdom in Greece, possessed by the hierophant of the goddesses,67 and hastened to ...

Some early Xian atrocities listed here: https://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/06/christian-atrocities-three-centuries-of-pagan-persecution/ Atrocities mentioned at link: 370 Valens orders a tremendous persecution of non-Christian peoples in all the Eastern Empire. In Antioch, among many other non-Chri...

I can't find any examples of a Christian government killing by burning a heretic before the year 1000 CE. (I am excluding death by burning for offences other than heresy and execution for heresy by means other than burning. ) After 1000 we have examples in East and West. Basil the Bogomil was burnt ...