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GakuseiDon, I am not really sure of the best answer here yet. Instead of leaving you hanging, I can share a bit of a session asking for some suggestions here. https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=183847#p183847 Some insights: Sometimes a sum of diagnostic criteria can make sense, but it c...

I also asked for an alternative approach: Evaluating each Rank-Raglan (RR) criterion separately and in combination is an excellent idea. It allows for a granular, systematic approach to assess how each individual criterion (or combinations thereof) contributes to the probability of historicity or my...

I've been trying to think of a similar scenario with regards to your COVID example. Perhaps something like redefining a positive COVID infection as anything between a cough and lung infection, up to being put onto a ventilator? I'm not sure. I asked my intern to try to come up with a justification:...

What about it? Its' artificial dialogue lifted from some other work, maybe not even Christian, then brought in to fit that late 3rd century period when dialogue pieces with Christian Champions taking on foes came into vogue. Of course, a lot of folks try to take it on face value and not consider it...

I am simply asking a question in the hope of getting data. Are there references to "Josephus" and "Jesus" together in Origen where it might be inferred that Josephus thought Jesus was the Christ. Asked that way, the answer seems to be a simple no. Can search 'Josephus' in Origen...

So does Livesey think that the author(s) of the Pauline letters had read a gospel?

And do you Giuseppe really think that the author(s) of the Pauline letters had read a gospel? If so, why?

And another thing. Origen not mentioning the same of Celsus's Jew seems deliberate. There must have been a name. Was it Philo? Why not give the name? You could say Celsus forged the text in the name of so and so. He doesn't. There's a reason for the omission. Celsus mentions a name, Origen delibera...

Livesey claims that a school is required for someone to leave behind letters because she is desperate and has zero evidence for her claims. Pathetic.

Giuseppe wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 9:59 am I will ignore Marcion despite of the fact that anti-circumcision in the epistles fits better a post-135 scenario.

Another thing that you take entirely on faith. As long as the one slinging the crap has an appealing conclusion for you, as the bullshitter Livesey does. Good times.

A school is required. I already responded to the school nonsense: (1) Hebrews is another pre-70 text. Does that imply a "school," or is that something that has to be redated also to preserve the cluster of assumptions being made here? (2) A so-called "school" is not required. A ...