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I very much appreciate your science based approach to the material, long overdue imo. One thing that I would love to see is what a LLM using just ancient Greek words, without words like kai, tu, de, in it's database, and no understanding of Greek grammar, would come up with in the way of breaking u...

Dear Dr. Bilby, According to you, 30 percent of the writings attributed to Paul are authentic. Do I understand you correctly? Could you please elaborate on this. Are there specific characteristics of this 30% authentic Paul? I tend to think the 30% still preserves the ipsissima verba of the histori...

I very much appreciate your science based approach to the material, long overdue imo. One thing that I would love to see is what a LLM using just ancient Greek words, without words like kai, tu, de, in it's database, and no understanding of Greek grammar, would come up with in the way of breaking up...

You know, we absolutely know that there was a thriving publishing industry in the Mediterranean during the time that the NT material was being written. This is a fact that is supported by numerous primary sources. Also, fiction was very popular, we absolutely know this for sure. The problem with ou...

Let me try it this way. If Marcus Agrippa was St Mark you'd be able to explain the Platonism at the heart of Alexandrian Christianity better. You'd be able to explain where Eusebius got the idea of a Mark who went around Egypt establishing monasteries for early Christianity. But as it is it's just ...

After reading J.P. Holding's review on Amazon I have decided to save my coupon for a footlong at Subway for another day and just have a couple bananas for lunch today, and order a copy of SA's book. Best of luck finding a useful argument in that book. Keep well in mind that historically there are t...

After reading J.P. Holding's review on Amazon I have decided to save my coupon for a footlong at Subway for another day and just have a couple bananas for lunch today, and order a copy of SA's book. It cracks me up that the coupon for the sandwich for 5.99 is immediately followed by a coupon for two...

Add to this the absence of copyright and flagrant plagiarism and you are good to go.

Hell! The anonymous nature of the material should be a huge clue here.

You know, we absolutely know that there was a thriving publishing industry in the Mediterranean during the time that the NT material was being written. This is a fact that is supported by numerous primary sources. Also, fiction was very popular, we absolutely know this for sure. The problem with our...

Hell, I would love to have all of us have to sit down for a 45 min interview to answer for our current position with all of our previous statements to be used as fodder. When I read the book a few years ago, I firmly said "No!!!" to Stephan's conclusions, but along the way I learned a who...