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Kris!! Welcome on here!! :D Wish I could help with this question... Adding - the Talmud did not come into being shortly after 70. The Yerushalmi is usually put in the 400s and the Bavli maybe a century later. Of course, what we have are compilations of earlier material, and you know that many of the...

********* Come on, guys, keep 'em coming. This is fun. I can usually handle about 20 of you morons at a time, so get some of your friends to join in. It's hardly fair for you. Evidence, along with the great number of his two- or three-line posts all over this board, that mf's interest is trolling.

Mental flatliner wrote:


How, exactly, do you expect to prove that cultures obsessed with religion somehow came up with non-divinely inspired creation myths?

Seems to be a de dicto / de re problem in the words bolded above.

srd44, maybe your hyperbolic sense of "all" is what is operative in the famous opening of the Iliad, where it says that Zeus rendered many heroes as "prey for dogs and all birds." Our prof in sophomore year took this to mean "all kinds of birds," but "all the birds...

Roger, can you disclose where you got online access to Pauly-Wissowa, and can you say anything about accessing the pdf of Hengel? The copy is checked out from my library.

Roger, thanks for noting Juvenal and Petronius. It's interesting that both passages refer to crucifying slaves for essentially mouthing off to their masters and thereby contesting his/her authority. That's a different situation from the state's crucifying subversives, though obviously there's some o...

Christian Askeland makes a fuller case for forgery, based on the exact, line-by-line match of the relevant passage of John in Coptic translation. Askeland's case assumes that the copyist of the later John fragment and the copyist of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife fragment was the same person: http://www....

Interesting, thanks for posting these excerpts from Aslan. I haven't read his book so useful to see this. That the wording on Jesus’s titulus was likely genuine is demonstrated by Joseph A. Fitzmeyer, who notes that “If [the titulus] were invented by Christians, they would have used Christos, for ea...

Good resource to know about. And yes, tops of letters are missing.

In the photo that you post, the compendium does not represent only tau and rho but, w/ the stroke above them, the four letters ταυρ. Kind of looks like the beginning of "bull" in Greek! Probaby that doesn't matter, though. Anyway, if one rejects the chi-rho resolution of the compendium and...