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It wasn't really about the costs. In the period of mass content creation and constant addition of new content in various places to previously written ones, the codex is the only convenient form. If you received a longer letter from Paul, you insert it in place of the previous version. A new pericope...

Tradition is an important factor influencing the level of acceptance of the message among recipients. Suppose you were inspired to formulate an interesting message. If you stand in person in front of an audience with this message, everything will depend on your interpersonal communication skills and...

time jump... 313 CE Christianity becomes a legal religion. The Marcionites take advantage of their religious freedom by building a church in a small village. The first church building that we know dates back to 318CE. 325 CE Nicene Creed contains the original definition of Christ without Mary. The c...

Marcion, as an entrepreneur in trade and maritime forwarding, had know-how, material resources and an extensive network of contacts. Marcion was the first to successfully launch an evangelistic campaign over a vast area. Marcion consciously chose the best literary products for textbooks for his miss...

What all biblical scholarship has done with Marcion and his legacy is pure Lysenkoism. From pure hostile propaganda, the conclusions expected by Marcion's enemies were drawn. Key historical information showing the true causes and consequences of this conflict was omitted. Moreover, here these errone...

David Litwa describes Marcion as a theologian and, like all biblical scholars, he makes a fundamental error in doing so. Marcion is a leader responsible for the success of a missionary organization whose goals are: 1. converting as many people as possible 2. effective retention of converts 3. being ...

Josephus describes the phenomenon of messianic expectations and messiah pretenders. Peter Kirby wrote about the Christians of Pompeii, there is the testimony of Suetonius about some Christ in Rome during the time of Claudius. Christ is a form of contestation of rotten, corrupt arrangements within th...

What may give clues supportive of the Jarek's theory is that the hypothetical TF (as reconstructed by Dave Allen) may explain the presence of the titulus crucis 'king of the Jews' in the Gospels, even more so if one follows Klinghardt about Mark replacing the Pilate's question 'Are you the Christ ?...

Maryhelena. I will try to move forward with the reconstruction. The feature of Josephus' stories is that we cannot verify them. Thus, TF may be imaginary or real. But it is the same with the story of the prophet predicting the fall of the Temple - Jesus ben Ananias. I do not need to emphasize how im...