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Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord for ...

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I've read Magnus Zetterholm's The Formation of Christianity in Antioch: A Social-Scientific Approach to the Separation Between Judaism and Christianity and other scholars and haven't gotten that impression.

I've been thinking about Philip Jenkin's book, The Lost History of Christianity, and how it describes the spread of Christianity "eastward" all the way to India and China. The Nestorian Stele is one such artifact of a history that is mostly forgotten.

Sure, it's also possible the people described in the following passage believed the same thing. . “Indeed, people came even from the cities in Asia, sent by the Christians at their common expense, to succour and defend and encourage the hero. They show incredible speed whenever any such public actio...

Pistis Sophia presents a myth of fallen archons of the aeons being imprisoned within the zodiacal sphere. The evil planetary archons may be said to be bounded or even "crucified" in these signs. Source: The Identity of the Archons in the "Apocryphon Johannis" A. J. Welburn Vigil...

So this wasn't written in the late first/early second century? About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks...

Thanks,I'll have to check it out. This book also examines how these texts were developed. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods in...

This article examines the significance the gLuke statement of "an orderly account." Perhaps this was meant to contrast with the gMark's account? https://dspace.nwu.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10394/25339/Fung_WWB_2017.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Thanks for the link. Part of his conclusion i...

. . The multiple versions of the Jesus story are really no different to the fabrication of multiple versions of the stories of Romulus. See Plutarch Romulus. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/romulus*.html . . Well one difference is that the events described in the fo...

This article examines the significance the gLuke statement of "an orderly account." Perhaps this was meant to contrast with the gMark's account?
https://dspace.nwu.ac.za/bitstream/hand ... sAllowed=y