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We have no primary sources regarding pre-Jewish-Revolt Christianity. Gloss that over at your own risk (or at your own benefit, as the case might be).[/list] LC Magnus Zetterholm attempts to use sociological methods to determine how Christianity eventually branched from Judaism in his book, The Form...

Most observers pass over this stuff in silence, although the curious case of Ant. 18.3.4 has elicited commentary from those who believe that a longer, more negative passage about Jesus may have stood in place of the text currently at Ant. 18.3.3 (reference escapes me at this moment). Jerome Murphy ...

. . "Jesus" could not have simply walked into the Temple and started spouting off Zingers and Witty Come Backs. Whoever this "Jesus" was (Hint: He was a Priest...), he is controlled by these everlasting Laws concerning the touching of dead people. . . CW Chronologically, the Joh...

John 18:28 indicates that the Johannine writer was aware of the relationship between uncleanness and the Passover.

. . . 7.The Resurrection of Lazarus should be front and center in an Analysis of John. "Lazarus is dead" and since he is dead, there are Ritual Purity Issues for Jesus that cannot be finessed. Period. Joseph of Arimethea may attend the Second Passover a month later for handling a dead bod...

Please G-d, Help me to understand why we must pray for a Third Temple!


Please God, Help Us Bring About Your Third Temple: A Response to Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz

George MacRae proposed the following theses in Judaism and Their Messiahs at the Turn of the Christian Era . 1. The earliest recoverable strata of the Christian proclamation of the gospel are aware of the claim that Jesus was (is, or will be; see below) the Messiah of Israel; this claim is not the p...

Judas of Galilee (6 CE), Judas led a violent resistance to the census imposed for Roman tax purposes by Quirinius in Iudaea Province around 6 CE. The revolt was crushed brutally by the Romans.[9] Menahem ben Judah (?), the son or grandson of Judas of Galilee, was a leader of the Sicarii. When the w...

The Pauline writings reflected a "popular messianic hope" which were arguably written before the jewish temple was destroyed. Is there any evidence is to support the idea that Paul's gospel was an expression of a popular messianic expectation? I should clarify that I am not questioning th...

The Pauline writings reflected a "popular messianic hope" which were arguably written before the jewish temple was destroyed. THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE Galatians Salutation Paul an apostle—sent neither by human commission nor from human authorities, but through Jesus Christ and God the Fat...