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No, Revelation is nowhere near a work of the first century; therefore, already Gustaaf Adolf van den Bergh van Eysinga realized that its content is symbolic as opposed to historical.

Asterix and Obelix can't hold the dimmest candle to Vincenzo Bellini's Norma.

The Pauline writings are much later than they pretend to be, definitely not before the destruction of the temple. There is just a lot of patristic legend about the activity of apostles in order to enforce a traditional picture of the origins of Roman Catholic doctrine as one going back to some gener...

Paul is not one side but late fabrication using multiple sides. Peter and James are also late dogmatic fiction with no historical value whatsoever. First century christians are equally a hallucination of naive followers of patristic forgery, as is the dependence of Lk, Mt, and Jn on Mk. Therefore, S...

Essenian origin is absurd, as Essenism boasts with excessive pro-nomianism; whereas the Christian koinwnia derives from anti-nomianist deprecation of creator and creation. This becomes evident after a comparison of manyt early liturgical recipes, as performed by Jean Magne in SACRIFICE ET SACERDOCE....

Marcion's is not the first story featuring John B, pre-synoptic gospels with euhemerization had preceded him . The priority of John is not an embarrassing problem for Judaizers, who need the messiah annointed by Eliyah according to Scripture; and it is equally not embarassing for those who understo...

The idea that the Parables of Enoch were an influence on the New Testament is not new. One problem is that unlike the other portions of 1 Enoch the Parables are not found at Qumran. This may imply a late 1st century CE date which (depending on the dates of the New Testament documents) would limit i...

So what? Detering was a Christian, too; yet he had no qualms stating the inauthenticity of the epistles and the inaccuracy of the gospel narrative as a whole.

Plutarch had a great influence n the gospels, as G.A. van den Bergh van Eysinga demonstrated in VERKLARING VAN HET EVANGELIE NAAR MATTHAEUS. This is especially the case for the antithesis of the hill sermon involving love of enemies.

The demons falsely recognize Jesus as the messiah of YHWH, not as Son of The Father.