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It's right up there with the likelihood that the Parthenon will return to it's former glory. http://www.naftemporiki.gr/fu/p/854049/638/10000/0x0000000000c331fa/1/parthenonas-akropoli-apokatastasi.jpg Σειρά εργασιών με σκοπό την αποκατάσταση του Παρθενώνα Δύο μελέτες στο ΚΑΣ για το λαμπρό οικοδόμημ...

Google Books has a preview of the book available at the link below. From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends . . . also you can send a sample to you kindle at the link below. From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient My...

How probable is this?

So after the destruction of the Jewish Temple suddenly the Jews were hoping their Messiah would save them? [wiki]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messiah_claimants[/wiki] Before the Common Era[edit] Judas Maccabeus (167–160 BCE), leader of a successful revolt against Antiochus' Seleucid empire. M...

The willingness of certain Jews to attack the Roman Army (eventually leading to the destruction of the Jewish temple) would imply the expectation of divine intervention, if not the emergence of a Messiah, IMHO.

Rodney Stark discusses this in chapter 4 of his book, Discovering God.

From the perspective of the historian, is the "Post Resurrection" Jesus to be viewed as an historical figure or as a myth or as a fiction? What opinions exist on this matter? LC Tertullian has the following opinion. Crucifixus est dei filius; non pudet, quia pudendum est. Et mortuus est d...

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. . . Categories are often distinguished by binary characteristics - law/outlaw, Father/Mother, day/night. One can also see that the same term can be re-used in different binary configurations. For example: sunshine/rain and rain/cloud Perhaps the most interesting binary characteristic between Juda...

The Gospel of Judas is also a pre-resurrection gospel. One that seem to hold to a physical incarnation. You mean it seems to predate the Gospel or Pauline resurrection narratives? (& incarnation = resurrection?) FWIW, Irenaeus mentions a Gospel of Judas in AH. They declare that Judas the traito...