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John T wrote:

Blood wrote:
So, the gospels are written just as we would expect them to be if Jesus was real.

lol wut

and the Elijah/Elisha narrative being a reworking of Genesis-Kings history ala Brodie is just as we would expect them to be if those prophets were real?

I do like Ehrman saying that we know Jesus existed, because , look, a story of Jesus raising a child from the dead has got Aramaic words in it. And Jesus spoke Aramaic. Case closed, really. Ireneaus AH Book1, chp 21 3. For some of them prepare a nuptial couch, and perform a sort of mystic rite (pro...

I get the sense that you say history the way republicans say rape.

So which of his nondebate, nonlecture,nonblog/message board peer-reviewed items of his have you read?

not sure John T can differentiate

Gnostic Bishop: "Rosa Parks is Satan"

lol

Hey Neil,

What about Tom Dykstra, he seems at least very sympathetic to mythicist arguments.

http://tomdykstra.wordpress.com/2014/07/

Hey guys, did you know steve really likes Hagan's thesis? Who knew?

I'm not so sure you can discount Protestantism that easily. Sure it doesn't have the traditions of those ancient churches you mentioned, but weren't there always heretical and schismatic groups hanging around the fringes of the church(es) through history? And don't the protestant churches find suppo...

A hundred some years ago in Antiqua Mater, Edwin Johnson noted that Chrestians was a term imposed from outside the community in a derogatory manner and most likely referred to Messianic Jews in total (as in multiple sects and multiple messiahs).