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I'm sure they were not averse to totally misrepresenting those theologies. All that remains are texts ambiguous enough to be “spun” as needed. Note for example Ignatius’s entire attack on his opponents (as also 2 Peter’s) gets no mention in Eusebius. He avoided it like the plague. Meanwhile, letter...

I said I consider the Matthew 22 conversations to be ballpark plausible based on my knowledge of late second Temple sectarianism. On Carrier's knowledge of late second Temple sectarianism. It is also plausible that counter culture sectarian Jews had conversations about the celestial Jesus Angel dyi...

I think those Matthew 22 conversations are, ballpark, plausible before 70 CE. Christianity only really picks up toward the end of the second century. Whereas in the prior period, there is essentially nothing , “a thirty-year black box in which we can’t reconstruct what happened,” beyond the vaguest...

Mark Goodacre makes a reasonable case against Q. Mark Goodacre also presents Markan priority with a strong foundation in linguistic, stylistic, narrative, and theological evidence. His analysis provides a compelling case for the hypothesis that the Gospel of Mark was the earliest of the Synoptic Go...

How would you answer this... First itemize what can not be known. [ 7:06 ] [A]ll the evidence that we would want is gone. It wasn't preserved. So this relates to this element [number] two, when Kip says , "There's so much we don't know about the Jews and their different sects!" That's bec...

Here Abraham is not being "tempted". The rabbis and their predecessors who appear to have interpreted Isaac as undergoing willing martyrdom . . . also understood that God had resurrected Isaac . This idea reappeared periodically in Jewish thought. --Godfrey, Neil (23 May 2008). "The ...

Any Torah observant Jew becoming a new Pauline Xian convert would suffer πειράζω under their old social network.

JtB-gMark as Isaiah fails to give up Torah observance after forty days of peirazómenos (being instructed/deconverted) under Satan.

• πειράζω: to tempt, to test, to try
  • πειραζόμενος: being tempted, being tested, being tried

to spin, There exists a name in Hebrew קיפא (QOF-YOD-PE-ALEP), which makes the most likely candidate for the name transliterated into Greek as Κηφας in Galatians. (This name is rendered Caiaphas in the gospels.) Caiaphas, in the gospel Greek, is καϊάφας. If compared with Cephas => κηφᾶς, αϊά is rep...

I wonder how the Gnostics read Job, if they did... ...in the milieu of Middle-Platonism, not Neoplatonism. What Middle-Platonism does decisively .. is to push from dualism in a monistic direction!​ N.B. Middle-Platonism is initially defined as one reality contra the philosophical dualism of Plato_1...