Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

My post doesn't seem to be getting a lot of bites. Is anyone at least familiar with this supposed dating system used by Moses-- 10 generations from Adam to Abraham, and then ten more from Abraham to Noah, etc.? Perhaps this could be a part of the reason that Messianism was prevalent around this time...

I am really trying to understand a couple of Christian sites that want to allege that there were various scriptures in the Talmud that seemed to indicate that the Jews knew that that messiah had come, or should have come around Jesus' time. The first site states the following: Jesus In The Talmud In...

I have thought that the Gentiles were the Romans and how they waged war with the Jews for 3 1/2 years before the end of the war in 70ad. This seems to correspond with revelation and the trampling of the Gentiles for 3 1/2 years.

Can anyone provide their thoughts on what Luke was referring to in Chapter 21 when he talks about the Times of the Gentiles? I know that futurists have their opinion, but I am inclined to think that this is referencing the Romans destroying Jerusalem and that this was addressing the events that occu...

In my posting of the rending of the veil,there was a good discussion regarding the 40 years or so between Jesus and the temple destruction. For the mythicist point of view-- do you think it is possible the Jesus was retrojected into the 30's because the gospel writers saw the destruction of the temp...

I was rereading this thread just for the fun of it, but tripped up on something that was said on page two in which a writer from the 9th century alluded to Josephus mentioning the breaking of lintels. I don't recall reading this is Josephus at all in any of his works. Jerome made several allusions t...

I think the 40 years was coinciental--- I did a lot of studying of Yoma 39, Jerome,Josephus, and even Edershiems famous quote mentioned in this thread. I believe that he was getting the Talmud and Josephus mixed up. Josephus makes no mention of candlesticks--- I checked!! I think the 40 years inboth...

Can anybody give me some good insight regarding of the rending of the veil? Did this really happen--- or is it only reflected in the gospel stories? Is it unprovable because the gospel writers wrote about this incident after the destruction of the temple? Is the whole thing allegorical? I have heard...

I agree Peter. So far, I haven't seen any other geologists weigh in on Jeffersons work, other than the six-million dollar man (Steve Austin--her hee!) but if course he would support it! I had read some earlier studies done by some other geologists (Ken-Tor et al) that had the date in a 50 year range...

Thanks so much for all of the awesome posts-- I was so excited when I check the site and there were a bunch of posts. I am going to read through everything and see what all of you had to say-- particularly Peter!! Thanks for looking into this and sharing your thoughts!