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assign specific texts to them. I.e. doing something of similar to what Robert M. Price has done, i.e. assign the various passages of the Pauline epistles now to a set, now to another sect, and so on, depending from their theology. If you are guided by theological criteria. I would start with how ma...

If you can't determine authenticity, you can't determine dating. You can determine, better or worse, how many authors wrote texts from the Pauline Corpus collection, assign specific texts to them. That's all.

There is no one who could distinguish an invented realistic epistolary novel from real correspondence, having only edited and supplemented texts at their disposal. These are realities. Biblical scholars can indicate which texts were written by author 1 and which by author 2, 3, 4,... They cannot dec...

TF is legit. Licentia poetica is more important for authors of popular general audience books than everything else. Christianity is an accident at work of a writer in love with beautiful and dramatic narrative constructs

Otherwise. Klinghardt claims that *Ev is the only homogeneous gospel. I'll have to check in on Brodie

Excellent question. Pericope Adulterae. It is not found in the oldest manuscripts. Then someone attaches it to Luke. Then someone else joins it to John, but in a different place than it is today. And only then does it reach its final destination in John. Syndication and the use of codexws in their f...

The use of codices and the syndication model of distribution of pericopes explains why the synoptic gospels are what they are. The material was simply collected from various sources gradually and inserted into codices with previous fragments

The question is would he agree with the claim that *Ev is by a different ghostwriter than Luke I assume that you mean for "Luke" the name of an author who considered YHWH as supreme god. Even if *Ev was written by a such "Luke" (as Brodie probably assumes), the point remains tha...

The originality of Thomas Brodie is that he: 1) argued for the priority of proto-Luke; 2) argued for Luke-Acts postdating the Fourth Gospel; 3) argued for Matthew using both proto-Luke and Mark. Each of these points is argued also by M. Klinghardt but only thanks to Marcion entering directly on the...

It was Rome that changed the message of Christianity because it could not teach the same as a better competitor. Might the Roman motif in altering an earlier Marcionite form of Christianity (as well as classifying it as heretical) have been one by which to utilize the altered form whereby to tame a...