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Well, I'm going by notes I wrote quite a while ago. 1. According to Hegesippus, James quotes Jesus, "I beseech Thee, Lord God our Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do," while he is being stoned. This detail is from 1 Apoc James (Codex Tchacos). 2. Hippolytus seems to repeat...

His books are useful for tracing some of the James references in early writings, but I don't buy his thesis that James was the Teacher of Righteousness.

I tried that…searched all the patristic fathers and apocrypha for references to anyone named James and put it in a big word processing file. I'm still confused as hell. What stood out, though, is the absence of anyone named James in almost every pre-150 text. Nothing in 1 Clement, 2 Clement, Hermas,...

I'm not completely sure what you're asking, but I don't think denigration had anything to do with it. Under this hypothesis, it would be completely natural for displaced Essenes, Sadducees and other sectarians who mingled with the Christ cult to regard the martyred Jesus/Joshua as completely human, ...

Figuring out who all the different Jameses were is a big headache, because even the earliest Christian writers were confused. The Gospels and Acts never suggest that either of the disciples named James nor the James who takes over the Jerusalem church in Acts was related to Jesus. That seems to be a...

Have you guys read Paul and the Law by Raisanen? Any argument about Paul's beliefs needs to acknowledge how incoherent he was.

The only thing I would say is a "waste of time" is any Synoptic solution that doesn't take Mcn into account at all. Which describes most of the "non-hobbyist" studies published by tenured professors with alphabet soup after their names.

What a shame that Klinghardts' new book costs over $200.

In the limited synoptic passages I have examined so far on my own, I have also concluded that Mcn was based on Mark, and Matthew in turn was based either on Mcn or proto-Luke (precursor to Mcn). Canonical Luke, in turn, was a revision either of proto-Luke or of Mcn with additions from Josephus, Matt...

Yes.