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As an eager Mythicist, I think that all the my (more than justified) enthusiasm for the Christ Myth Theory can't overcome the humility that is required in approaching the Slavonic Testimonium . Hence, ceteris paribus , that humility is so morally imperative in dealing with a such text that we can't...

I'm sure the Slavonic Josephus, along with all gospel related stories, have had their fair share of 'updates' and redactor opinions - but I really don't think your argument has any merit when contrasted with the scholars who have worked and published on this material. The wonder-doer/the miracle wo...

What is the relationship between the sectarian scrolls from Qumran, Josephus's (and others) description of the Essenes, and between those and the early Judean-based church (i.e., before it acquired the name Christian).

I didn't say what is in the title. I said I feel like we're just a bunch of fools playing at the idea that we know enough to say this or that about when ligatures had to be used in the document. And if we don't know enough, that's a problem with using these kinds of arguments in favor of any other ...

It is regularly observed that there is much less verbatim agreement between John and the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) than there is among the three Synoptics. This is sometimes taken as proof of John's independence of the synoptics. However, John's occasional verbatim agreements with hi...

For those that think the cleansing of the temple was an historical event, can we also get an idea of what that actually entails? Do you think Jesus flipped a couple of tables and was immediately arrested, but was eventually released? It seems the story as is can not be historical as it says Jesus &...

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It's not quite the same theory, and is not in a published work, but Prof. Richard B. Hays at Duke once suggested something similar in response to a student's objection to the historicity of the temple incident (AKA the temple 'cleansing'; Mark 10.15-19, Matthew 21.12-13, Luke 19.45-48, cf. John 2.13...

Paul implies in Phillipians 2 that Christ Jesus's taking the form of a human being (being born of a woman) and subsequent obedience unto death was in the interest of others: In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul relates that Christ's obedience is effectively reversing the disobedience of Adam and its consequen...

For what it's worth, I'm open to be persuaded that they would have been different people. That goes without saying man. And I actually have no dog in this race at all, it has no bearing on my vanity projects :-) If Cephas is the first witness to the resurrected Jesus in 1 Cor. 15.5, but not the sam...