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Jews wouldn't have expected their God or messiah to have been hanged. That's a huge hurdle to overcome. In fact I think its impossible to overcome because there is nothing in the Jewish writings. And I know all the early references. It's impossible to reconcile these ideas. I realize that I'm late ...

http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Asherah-Ancient-Israel-Judah/dp/0521662354/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1413244689&sr=8-2&keywords=asherah Possibly complicating the picture is the Post-Exhilic thinking which eliminated all other gods except the ethereal one god which became YHWH. This book advocate...

Actually, the fig tree symbolizes the Julio-Claudians, who will never again rule, when the Flavians come to town...

perseusomega9 wrote:It's a literary masterpiece that uses the language of nonsensical grammar to promote the writer's system of orthodox grammar, much as Paul does in his letter to the Colossians wrt to gnostic and orthodox theologies.

This must mean that you've read Catch-22.

I cannot find it, but I think I read on Neil's blog something about a book that claims that Mark was written to be performed. All scenes are static, movement happens between scenes and the "immediately"'s may have been stage instructions. http://www.michaelturton.com/Mark/GMark09.html#9X CW

This theory would make better sense if the Marcionites were located in Alexandria... But having the Marcionites a million miles away in the Black Sea is hard to explain. Tacitus, Histories , Book 3 (Adjacent Paragraphs): "A sudden outbreak had been excited in Pontus by a barbarian slave, who h...

John T wrote:Craig not only called Carrier a "crank exegesis" but proved it beyond a reasonable doubt. Craig went on later to say Carrier was his most bizarre opponent to date.

http://caesarsmessiah.com/blog/2013/12/ ... at-gadara/

PLZ read.

CW

Julius Caesar must have said his "I am not King, but Ceasar" line around 44 B.C.E. shortly before his assassination. Enemies of Julius Caesar probably spread the line to show that he considered himself a king in all but name. It appears to me that the text, by putting the words in the mou...

"I am filling up what is lacking of the tribulations of Christ, in the flesh of me, for the body of him, which is the church..." I think this is the only passage in which a Pauline author has the chutzpah to suggest something was "lacking" in the tribulations of the Christ, and ...

Carrier disqualifies himself quite completely.

http://caesarsmessiah.com/blog/2013/12/ ... at-gadara/