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Elsewhere, how do you explain this disturbing clue in Mark? The hypothesis interpolation invoked by Wilke seems to betray a reluctance to recognize the obvious (the presence of these disturbing 'bones' of violence meant by Maccoby). Giuseppe, are you positing here that there was a historical Jesus ...

But this is a false comparision because nature itself (via the theory of evolution) does the replication of the DNA whereas the replication of manuscripts is conducted by monks and/or scribes under the supervision of the church library authorities. It's not like DNA is replicated naturally and the ...

But there is an offstage in Mark (and all gospels, naturally), Only if you read the text dogmatically, assuming, say, this story historical, not allegorical or fictional. From a critical perspective, all we have are the texts which have reached us, and it's irresponsible to speculate wildly outside...

So I am comfortable with the assumption that Jesus routinely became unclean during his life and underwent whatever procedures were necessary to remedy it. And I'm not comfortable hallucinating episodes which aren't there in service of a religious belief. Maybe offstage Jesus was taking ufo trips to...

But we have what we have, and this is the sense I make of it. But if we take 7:19 as original, I look at it the same way that Papias didn't only write down what he heard from elders, he also gave his own interpretations of them. So if Mark heard from the elder Peter (which I have no issue with), th...

How do you square this with Jesus telling the leper to "show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them,” Maybe because the leper was a jew?" How do *you* square it with the fact that Jesus *didn't* go to the priest and do s...

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It's structure apparently goes back a long way. While I take your point I was focused on the NTA. The "Other Jesus and Apostle" story books which circulated in antiquity. How is your great-great-great-great-great grandmother relevant to this group of savagely censored books? Both DNA we g...

The first book written in America which anybody in Europe took at all seriously was Johnathan Edwards's book "The Freedom of the Will." (which argued that there's no such thing). It was just the next step in the same argument between Calvinits and Arminians, which had been going on since A...

And it's not as if Jesus and his followers were seriously reaping or intending to do any serious reaping on the Sabbath. They plucked a few grains and the Pharisees were being nit-picky. Is this all that "Simon" does differently as "Lord of the Sabbath"? Fun fact, Jesus doesn't ...