Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

1. that our earliest manuscript of Tacitus is from the 12th century Irrelevant. Plenty of manuscripts are only found in medieval times. That's pretty normal transmission. 2. no classical writer knew anything of christians relating to the fire 3. that the first ancient writer who wrote about a perse...

And we are trying to teach you about skepticism. In fact there are two types of unhealthy skepticism: a) half-hearted skepticism, where skepticism is a nice idea, but you don't have the energy to get past the idea; and b) denialism, where one rejects things because they don't want them to be veraci...

Well, I disagree about the sigma, but a fine idea it is to make yourself dig through the ancient witnesses yourself! And new new Adam?

As far as skeptics concerned with their image and Baptist ministers moderating a Judaism board, by all means I try to avoid those types!

To actually dip my toes into this conversation... Well I thought ancient Greek went right to left like Hebrew. Joe, you've been arguing on these [types of] boards since, what, 2004? 2003? Anyway, nit-picking and all, the last letter visible is clearly a sigma, and you wouldn't expect "cus"...

Talk about your blast into the past. A good while back, when FRDB was IIDB and I was regularly posting on the Jesus Mysteries list, one of the more conservative grad students (I think it was either Chris Weimer or Chris Zeichman, who are both fairly conservative but firmly in touch with modern criti...