Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

MF may want to say that you lack spine, Maximos, and that you lack the skill to engage him. But, like you, I think I'll also ignore. Life is short, and much awaits doing. That's right. Why bother with people who can educate or challenge you? (Of course, one might ask why you're even in a public for...

I am trying to get a solid dating of Daniel-- I am trying to find out what dates have been provided for the manucripts of Daniel from the Dead Sea Scrolls. I am reading that the earliest is dated to around 125ad, due to carbon dating, but I had read of one 4QDan e (or 4Q116) that might be earlier--...

What 1st century "artifacts" do you believe confirm anything about Jesus? What verifiable events? What narratives corroborate the Gospels and which Gospels do they corroborate? Ethically, I can't answer this question. Whatever evidence I give you will be rejected, and you'll increase the ...

I'm not sure if you're interested but there is more to it than that. If there were such a document then it is significant because it would be our earliest evidence for both Jesus and his followers that dates to the time of Paul's own writings. That leads to significant questions for a number of sch...

Eusebius of Caesarea is the father of modern chronolography, because he was the first to attempt to gather all the various dating systems and construct a world chronology I would argue that he was not the first, but that he took older attempts and improved (or attempted to improve). Josephus for ex...

The issue of fundamentalist verses troll must be decided by something we talk a lot about here, Provenance (not "providunce"). Your posting history here shows high quantity and low quality which is evidence you want reaction and not research = troll. Show me where you have posted in a Chr...

The whole thing about "Mark" the author of the gospel started with Papias (110-140), quoted by Eusebius: "Mark, having become the interpreter of Peter, wrote down accurately, though not indeed in order, whatsoever he remembered of the things done or said by Christ . For he neither he...

What 1st century "artifacts" do you believe confirm anything about Jesus? What verifiable events? What narratives corroborate the Gospels and which Gospels do they corroborate? Ethically, I can't answer this question. Whatever evidence I give you will be rejected, and you'll increase the ...

Hello, I am new here, so I hope I am posting this in the right place! My question kind of transcends Jewish and Christian writings to a certain extent. Recently, I have been studying why the Jews do not believe that Jesus was the Messiah. Recently, I ran across an Christian Website that purports to...

From Voobus's translation of Marutha (which David Trobisch just sent me now in Syriac and English): The heresy of the followers of Simon22. This is this Simon concerning whom the members of this religion called him Sem'on and were saying about him that he is a son of God23. And calling him the secr...