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yakovzutolmai, since you think that the pauline epistles are invented all after the 70 (a conclusion I am intrigued about), how do you harmonize their post-70 invention with their silence about the Gospel Jesus ? Basically, I am addressing the same question I had raised here , gaining still no answ...

Just learning the "Kurd" is blacksmith in ancient Iranic languages. Corduene is "land of the smith" AKA Kaveh the Blacksmith. This is the inspiration for Noah. If the Jews think Kurds are descended from Jinn in a story that parallels the Enochian tale of the Watchers, and if we p...

the sons of Judas of Gamala. Are you sure that Judas of Gamala existed ? A case has been made for Judas being a pure Flavian invention. This study shows that we can no longer assume that this Judas presented by Josephus is an historical figure who engaged in some activity in 6 CE. My figures of int...

I'm curious what he says about Sethians, since they had a corpus of literature also (perhaps rivalling the Hermetica?) and they obviously pre-date Xtianity. Many more Jews turned Gnostic (in a Sethian Spring, c.120 AD?) rather than Xtian, but those lines arent firm either. After 115 AD, Gnosticism ...

“The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John . Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it. John Hyrcanus is meant here, proving that Doudna's view of a confusion between the Baptist and Hyrcanus is probably correct. If w...

If Simeon Niger is "Ukkama" aka Izates, then the "brethren at Antioch" (Nisibis? Edessa?) as: "Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul" can overlap with the family of Jesus...

Per evidence in another thread, "Boethus" is probably just the Greek Boethus and not derivative. Although, as a pejorative, its creators could have been conscious of "Beit Honi". On the other hand, Boethus was a prominent bureaucrat with relations to Onias, so a marriage or adopt...

Boethus seems to have derived, genuinely, from the Greek Boethus. There are many theories about this, and the scholarly lean is towards it being an ironic pejorative in the vein of "Sadducee". The Boethusians and Sadducees are considered to have emerged simultaneously by Pharisaical teachi...

Christian origins are hard to understand, I would propose, because Jewish origins are obscured. There are many who believe that formal monotheism in Judaism didn't begin until after Alexander. I think that understanding what Judaism was prior to that sheds light on how Christianity emerged. Context ...

There’s a comment thread in your initial “Questioning the Historicity of Jesus” post that might be worthy of reply – the commenter “Peter Piper” suggests (by means of quoting an unfavorable review of your UNCG lecture) euhemerization was a way to denigrate a deity, rather than simply creating an ea...