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Key Performance Indicators - Marcion Throughout the 100-year history of studies about Marcion, biblical scholars write only about matters of secondary importance from the point of view of reconstructing this figure, which are key to understanding the conflict from the 2nd century AD. They deal with ...

I drew another version of my sketch, taking into account the advantages of my reconstruction that have not been discussed so far. Firstly, the imperial reach of the generic TF message ("testimonium flimsinanum" as the great RMP says, this is where he is wrong). The book was written in Rome...

I have included a Venn diagram for the Synoptic Gospels. This is proof that the gospels were written together. Perhaps on the same editorial team as Boismard's diagram suggests. Klinghardt introduced a separate and exclusive author for *Ev. I don't think he's right.

Mark Goodacre said that Mark's gospel was written in the 70s CE or the 80s CE or the 90s CE. So when? It's a short text - 3 hours of reading. *Ev is an even shorter text - 2 hours of reading. Knowledge and emotions about the destruction of the Temple may have come, like knowledge about Jesus, from J...

I improved the drawing taking into account Giuseppe's insightful conclusion.

I can't answer this question. I assume that the first was some apocalyptic revelation - someone's own idea for intriguing,scary content independent of others. Apocalyptic content never gets old. The Gospels (all) and Pauline Corpus are examples of comprehensive aggregated content - a later stage of ...

Really, the beauty of the your scenario is that it explains why there was a so abyssal silence about Jesus ... Yes exactly. Late dating of the real beginning of the movement (post 95CE) and fully invented Christian past from 30 CE to 97/100CE (gospel stories, narrative of Pauline Corpus). ..... the ...

Is this a historicist paradigm? The only difference between a historicist paradigm and the your scenario is that in the traditional historicist case the Josephus's TF was not necessary, while in the your scenario the decisive impulse was just given by the knowledge of the TF. Why? Was the reason th...

Every serious and ecstatically beautiful reconstruction should have its own graphic visualization. I envied Zuntz and the researchers of the synoptic problem for their diagrams and therefore I created the following sketch called "The Development of Christian Content". The reconstruction pe...

A small digression to start with. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. From a safe distance with a bucket of popcorn in my hand and in a comfortable chair. Observing the local battlefield around Goldberg and Mason led me to write them both a simple message about how their boy Jospehus had unkn...