Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

It is so much easier ... to establish, through investigation of the Christian core texts and others, the existence of a "humble" not divine rural Jew, who by some obvious circumstances, got crucified as "king of the Jews", which was good enough to start the development of Christ...

In case anyone is interested in knowing what the Samaritan interpretation of Exodus 33:8 is here is my friend Benny Tsedaka (who incidentally called Magen Broshi on my behalf as a character witness): It [the material] is about the relations between some of the sons of of the tribe of Levi and Moses....

Another example. My wife is really hot. Way better than me. She is 'desirable.' But most people won't admit the opposite - that no one wants their wife or girlfriend. That has to change. Shitty should never be confused with acceptable even if it is useful to do so.

I've said this many times before. Anyone who wants to write about these things has to engage in extensive LSD use in order to wipe clean the unconscious egoism involved in accepting something shitty as 'useable' and acceptable merely because it is useful to one's selfish aims to do so.

But Tertullian is the fucking problem. All these assholes develop their case from the worst text possible. Why is Tertullian so great? Because he's early. But did Tertullian himself compose the Five Books Against Marcion or was it a compilation of texts he copied into Latin? Already I get suspicious...

Sorry I got to call Helmut Koester ... (ironic emoticon lacking)

The three layers to Tertullian's 'source' about the Marcionite NT - in plain fucking language at the start of Against Marcion Book One (it's incipit): Whatever in times past2 we have wrought in opposition to Marcion, is from the present moment no longer to be accounted of.3 It is a new work which we...

But you can apparently publish endless numbers of idiotic books which follow this waste of time approach. Thats what counts

And here's what it comes down to - the need to get published. To get published you need to have "generally agreed upon" acknowledged facts. In the case of Marcion it's "all the things said about THE NT" shared by the orthodox and the Marcionites in generally corrupt Patristic tex...

Analogy is not evidence.

Whatever. Call it what you want. Works in a court of law