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Hello everyone -- I do not know if there is a Thread on this Site that has discussed this - there are probably many - but in reading Turton's Blog on Mark ( http://www.michaelturton.com/Mark/GMark_index.html ), I came across a section that has some serious implications: http://www.michaelturton.com/...

Why did Mark and Matthew need to have a John the Baptist before Jesus? The answer is obvious: against Marcion. Giuseppe -- I am trying very hard to see how you get to manipulate Marcion but you keep making statements such as above and it begs the question you ask. Jewish Encyclopedia , "Bilgah...

I can get started but the entirety of the exercise may be long. Ask questions if necessary. When I first started this years ago - as a good Empiricist - I was looking for the Non-Metaphysical. As I've said, "There are Atheists who believe that Jesus was the Son-of-God, who doesn't exist." ...

Is it accurate (as in: credible) to say that the (so to speak) "Government Issue" Priests (High Priest included) lacked 'authority' (respect) among the masses, who maintained a Priest class of their own behind the backs of the Government? Robert Eisenman seems to imply that James was of t...

So, Giuseppe, why not read 2 Chronicles 34 - 35 and, if you are correct, see where the Story of Josiah leads? Josiah hears the Book of the Lord and then keeps the Passover AND the seven days of the Feast. Does this "Jesus" character do this? * SOME of the words are there, certainly, but do...

It is 12 years later, after the murder of the 3000 at the Temple, as Archelaus is installed at the death of Herod. "What have you to do with us...?" That is: "We aren't the people who murdered the thousands." "...Have you come to destroy us?" The Priest - that is, the c...

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I've Digitized the book except for the Bibliography+ pages, which I'll finish Any-Day-Now.

If you wanna copy, lemme know.

CW

Teeple, Lit. Or. of Gosp. of John, p. 134 - 135: "After the later insertions are stripped off, the remainder is not a unity but contains two types of material: poetry characterized by chain-linkage construction (word, word: God, God; etc.) and hynm-like material which lacks chain linkage. The s...

schillingklaus wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:43 pm Josephus is full of malicious forgery and fraud, only believed genuine by apologistic right-wingers.

Do we have to put up with this bovine ofal?

Yet, strangely, Josephus tells us about the death of Jesus and his brother James but not Paul who lived in Rome under house arrest? :scratch: Granted it is an argument from silence... Tacitus, Histories , Book 5 (Thayer trans.,http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/histories.5.v.html) I fought the same ba...