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Acts 5 - Ananias and Sapphira Struck dead by God for not giving all their money to the church. Acts 7 - Any Last Words? Please hold your stones until the end. Acts 8 - What a Trip I just flew in from Gaza, and boy are my arms tired. Acts 12 - Was it something I said? Gives a speech, declared a god, ...

The word "contemporary" might not be the best way to express the distance in time at fifty years, but it could be worse. Yes, Hegesippus is known only from references and quotations. Your protest against using them is noted. By the way, I found something interesting about the archaeology o...

Again I don't know why if you have Marcion and the Tatianites and many others rejecting Acts as a 'spurious codex' (De Recta in Deum Fide) and specifically denying the Catholic version of Paul and their Pauline collection how people can walk around with such certainty about who Paul was. Once you'v...

I really do see your point, dewitness, but there are some who would say that you are begging the question (the answer to which is important) when you state your premise that the stories of Jesus had no existence before they achieved literary form in the Gospels.

There is a roughly homophonic Aramaic word, apparently, for the Greek 'petros'. I can't vouch for its relevance at all, especially when we are given both forms (Aramaic and Greek) in our sources already. I will concede that you may want to translate 'kepha' as 'stone' instead of 'rock.'

Do you know any scholars who did entertain your views that Paul wrote some of his letters after 70, and visited or planned to visit Jerusalem then? And I thought you abandoned that idea and kept two options: a fabricated Paul (after 70) or a true Paul active in the 40's and 50's. (1) Probably Rober...

Agreed, agreed, misunderstanding, something like that, agreed, agreed, agreed.

Relevant here (and much more readable): http://www.globalserve.net/~yuku/bbl/tatian.htm DID HE REALLY DO IT? The only real evidence for Tatian producing the Diatessaron is just one short quote from Eusebius, and even this is disputed, because the original wording is not so clear. This passage surviv...

We have statements in a contemporary source (Hegesippus) about 'brethren of the lord' and bishops/apostles 'of the circumcision' in the period 70-135 AD, and that provides just as suitable a sitz-im-Leben for the dispute over the authority of the Jerusalem/James/Peter/Law/Judaizing/circumcision grou...

Galatians 4:24-26 "Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is , and is in bondage with her children . But Jerusalem which...