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Julian, AKA, The Apostate. It is, I think, expedient to set forth to all mankind the reasons by which I was convinced that the fabrication of the Galilaeans is a fiction of men composed by wickedness. Though it has in it nothing divine, by making full use of that part of the soul which loves fable a...

Shakespeare allegedly was aware of how the Romans created the gospels.

Does this qualify as an insurrection? Flavius Josephus, Jewish War 2.261-262 There was an Egyptian false prophet that did the Jews more mischief than the former; for he was a cheat, and pretended to be a prophet also, and got together thirty thousand men that were deluded by him; these he led round ...

Mark 15:7 New International Version (NIV) A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising With no insurrection during the time of Pilate - what insurrection would you suggest gMark is referencing? An insurrection in which a 'King of the Jews' w...

Well, the gMark IS historical . . .

This is from a book titled the The African Memory of Mark. If Mark preached,healed and ministered to all the districts of the Pentapolis, as Sawirus reports, that would surely have included not only Cyrene, but also Ptolemasi (Barca), Heperides, (Benghazi, Bernike) and Teuchira. While in Libya he or...

10. With that all said, Christianity is a concurrent/direct descendent of Judaism. According to Ignatius of Antioch, it's the other way around. CHAPTER X.--BEWARE OF JUDAIZING. Let us not, therefore, be insensible to His kindness. For were He to reward us according to our works, we should cease to ...

10. With that all said, Christianity is a concurrent/direct descendent of Judaism. According to Ignatius of Antioch, it's the other way around. CHAPTER X.--BEWARE OF JUDAIZING. Let us not, therefore, be insensible to His kindness. For were He to reward us according to our works, we should cease to ...

Magnus Zetterholm attempts to use sociological methods to determine how Christianity eventually branched from Judaism in his book, The Formation of Christianity in Antioch: A Social-Scientific. Approach to the Separation Between Judaism and Christianity. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/bib...