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I introduced my students to historical Jesus research (abbrev.: HJR). HJR ask the classic historical and biographical questions: Who was Jesus? What did he do? What did he say? What happened to him? How did he see himself? --Tite (28 January 2020). "Reflections on the Mythicists and the Histor...

Conditional probability is . . . in the general case of calculating the probability of an intersection (written as '&' above). The formula introduced . . . above is a special case that is true for independent events. Conditional Probability: The probability of one event (A) happening given that...

rgprice wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 9:13 am @dbz The implication being that James and John are "sons of Yahweh the lawgiver", "god of thunder"?

Yes,
Or that the theocratic nationalists could only do a "thunderous" revolt without the required lightning to strike Rome.

[A]void the epistemological problems posed by the materials we analyse by dumping as much baggage as we can. Bayesian probability analysis promotes a limiting of improbable supposition after improbable supposition. Improbabilities commute to the conclusion. If a theory requires two claims that are ...

Name (in order of presentation) Mentions by name (3:20–16:8) Base Name Modifier Cognomen Cognomen given by Jesus "Church Pillars" per Paul c. 53 CE (Galatians 2:9) Simon Peter ~20 Símōnos Σίμωνος Pétros Πέτρος Kēphâs Κηφᾶς Jacob/James (son of Zebedee) ~10 Iákōbos Ἰάκωβος ton tou Zebedaiou...

annotate wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 1:47 pm [L]ook at the devil with all his/her/it scheming...

• In the context of Early Second Temple Judaism

"Dr Christopher Rollston, "The Rise of the Satan in Early Second Temple Judaism"". YouTube. St Mary's University, Twickenham. 9 July 2014.

rgprice wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 12:38 pm So if you hear that the world is ruled by Satan, and other sources tell you that the world is ruled by Yahweh, then you can see how one would equal Satan with Yahweh.

Plus add in a pinch of rhetoric that neither Satan or Yahweh were the godhead on the great chain of being.

Apart from Hebrews and the not-interpolated Paul Jack Bull postdates all after Marcion. letters from Paul were selectively edited to keep only parts ambiguous enough to spin as needed Carrier's "only" suggests that parts of texts were removed. What evidence can be brought to bear to suppo...

The earliest gospel was used and/or written by Marcion: Markus Vinzent, Matthias Klinghardt, Georges Ory, Paul Louis Couchoud; It is the first time I hear Richard Carrier on youtube. In a discussion with Jack Bull (JB), a follower of Vinzent's thesis about Marcion priority. https://www.youtube.com/...

Britt, Matthew; Wingo, Jaaron (2024). "Christ Before Jesus: Evidence for the Second-Century Origins of Jesus" . Cooper & Samuels Publishing. [If] the gospels are based on the pauline letters, as I believe is firmly demonstrated, how could there be time for the letters to be written an...