Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Thank you for indulging my flight of fancy here! I find it very difficult to make heads or tails of what is accumulated legend, and what has a bona fide historical kernel. It doesn't help that a lot of this hinges on Josephus, who in many respects is a tendentious and omissive narrator. One could im...

Hi all, I wanted to share some (very tentative, very speculative) thoughts concerning the "garment" motif that appears all across early Christian esoteric/gnostic literature. In short: although no doubt influenced by the "garment of glory" found in Jewish merkabah mysticism, I be...