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it seems that, insofar you use these words, you are unaware of the best cases against the authenticity of all the pauline epistles. I mean: the radical critics, Detering, Price. I do n't mean Bruno Bauer, even if he is the first of the radical critics. I am not saying that they are right. I am sayi...

i would caution bringing any 'Simonians' into this we can say something about Cerdon and co. but there's absolutely nothing we can say about an even earlier group the 'Simonians' for all we know those guys would be totally opposed to whatever Cerdo, or the other gnostics were cooking up (or to broad...

I don't want to get too caught up in the topic as it was a passing thought I had had while thinking about Matthew. I will probably start up a new thread and talk about it more there. For me Yeshu ben Stada can be fit into the Pauline cycle in the Marcionite canon. With him we have a good candidate ...

i just don't think the church was ever that slick of an operation and spent most of their time fire fighting (what else is Irenaeus doing?) and it took centuries of grinding before they got that kind of power to do what you suggest. there's four gospels and they don't agree with each other. i think ...

that's an interesting POV and suggestion for reading Matthew - which is for sure concerned with the law.. on the other hand its tempting to suspect an undercurrent of 'spiritualising the Torah' is at work to 'spiritually fulfill it', somewhere some places in the tradition seem suggestive of that eve...

So in the Gospel of Mark there are hundreds of parallels to the Jewish scriptures, and nowhere else in Mark it is said that anything happened in order to fulfill the scriptures, even though the events of the scenes parallel the scriptures. But in Matthew, over and over again Matthew calls out these...

the only problem with that is these are the birth narratives, which are likely the later parts of these gospels. so even if you're onto something here it could then be the gospels trying to make sense of the name, a bit like we're doing here! It could be 'Nazareth' as a place is another attempt at t...

Samson? pffft. fluff to embellish Jesus's credentials maybe. or the most likely answer : Netser + Raz. Mystery keepers. Book of Daniel
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Gnostics were based on creating their own content and not selecting the best writings: the most popular, easy to teach, adapted to a mass audience. They lost because they had to - they wanted to prove themselves as creators, charismatic writers/speakers, they did not develop a structure. Paul's Let...

Jarek, yes the gospels were ignored in writings known to have existed after the gospels existed (eg pastorals) and so too that applies to the earlier epistles, this is the way the gospels can be seen as being the earlier writings (or at least the 'earlier gospels, and their sources, are earlier than...