Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Quantity doesn't equate quality, Dick Although he's spot on about Ehrman, of course ... That's the order, and all of it can be demonstrated, and that the canonicals are dependent on Thomas has been demonstrated as nauseam already. What else needs to be done? And who gives a damn about "Paul&qu...

And that is why I keep telling everyone that the only way to research this specific area and field is via the original manuscripts, in their original language: not because I like to say that, on the contrary: I like, love and desire to level all thresholds and to give everyone the chance and opport...

Later Constantinians are hallucinating liars. Churchunists are the result of a late, exaggerated Mollochization by the Pontifix Maximus for Sol Invictus.

Paul does talk about remembering the poor. I don't know if that's early ebonites. I think it probably is, with the p capitalized: ... to make a certain contribution for the Poor saints which are at Jerusalem. (Romans 15:26 [KJV]) But the Ebionaens reject Paul as an apostate, and the Faulines were w...

In addition to keeping the sabbath, ( Josephus says everyone did), we conjecture that the Ebionaens kept the Hebrew festivals of: Passover on the 14th of Nissan, with a rememberance of the last supper at the first Seder, even though it wasn't a seder. Passover is not Easter, and the date would be se...

But in John 2:14-16 Jesus drives the money-changers out of the temple, and also the animals used for sacrifices ... Whipping bankers is always a good idea, but why bother with the animals if you're not making a statement? I certainly see no "Jesus' pro-sacrifice position in the NT". John ...

Has it occurred to you the distinct possibility that you live in a Western/Roman/Byzantian echo chamber such that you believe everything discovered to date has been in Greek ? We have the Coptic NHL dated to the middle of the 4th century. At that time, according the historian Ammianus Marcellinus &...

The Early Christians conformed to the Mosaic law, but like Jesus, may not have held to all of the Pentateuch. in the Panarian, Epiphanius writes: "18:7 Nor do they accept Moses' Pentateuch in its entirety; they reject certain sayings." Although they were mostly all Hebrews at the outset, C...

Peter Kirby posted Epiphanius Book 1 Chapter 29 in the Nazareth, Nazara, Nazarenes, and Nazoreans. which is the chapter on the "called the Christians Nazoraeans". This is chapter 30, shortened to fit the forum limits - you don't miss anything of value - just a diatribe against circumcision...

It isn't clear in Freke and Gandy's book but I'm guessing it's Lüdemann's "The resurrection of Christ : a historical inquiry" since it fits the year of publication listed in F&G. I found references to Melito in it but I'm relying on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/resurrectio...