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Perhaps Steve Mason (and almost everybody else) is wrong about his assumptions! That in itself is perhaps not surprising, but now we come to the data that really upset the applecart. Within the NT collection, distribution of to euangelion is in no way proportionate. The genuine and disputed letters ...

Thank you, Bertie,
But I could not get farther than the abstract from my computer.
Can you answer MrMacSon's inquiry about the cited 2013 Baird?

Ironically the fallacy of a pre-Christian Gnosticism forming Christianity helped Bultmann see the (non-fallacy) Discourses as source within the Gospel of John. Thus Teeple could pick up the idea which I incorporated in my Gospel Eyewitnesses of the seven written records. It took a fallacy to help pu...

Yet they get paid to be authoritative. We don't have that problem hence the potential for amateur scholars to be more honest and truthful than their professional counterparts We non-academics have the freedom to look where truth may lead us--even as far as the scorned position that there are seven ...

The idea of a pre-Christian Gnosticism generating Christianity is no longer tenable (Baird, 2013). Along the way it did much harm in fashioning (without being itself Nazi) the German Kultur of minimizing Judaism in ancient and current Christianity. How did "pre-christian Gnosticism fashion .. ...

"academic journal" implies peer-reviewed journal, yes, as I specified in my OP , The Journal for the Study of the New Testament, June 2014. I drive to Davis most Sundays to keep current. As I stated, Hurtado states that it is no longer tenable to hold that Christianity arose out of Gnostic...

That must be the Baird book cited by Hurtado. I read his article at my nearby academic library and did not take extensive notes. Its publication may have been the stimulus for Hurtado's article. Edited to add: No, that Baird wrote earlier and not as a scholar Hurtado would have respected. He writes ...

Thank you, spin, And for your previous efforts to "set me straight" over on the old FRDB. I have never seen a refutation of Howard M. Teeple's Literary Origin of the Gospel of John (1974). That leaves me free to use it for the framework for two of the three contemporary writings in my Earl...

Larry Hurtado in his retirement is not afraid to reveal various wrong-headed ventures in biblical criticism. His articles "Fashions, Fallacies..." in the June 2014 Journal for the Study of the New Testament laughs off mid-20th Century fads such as Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and Dec...

Ehrman also claimed 'With respect to Jesus, we have numerous, independent accounts of his life in the sources lying behind the Gospels (and the writings of Paul) -- sources that originated in Jesus' native tongue Aramaic and that can be dated to within just a year or two of his life...' Was he tell...