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Go check out his posts at the religion forums. Just Google "Dan Unterbrink". DCH Yes, I have seen his posts on Acts at Debating Christianity and Religion. Another link is to the excellent review by Ken Humphreys at his website: But Unterbrink's thesis is far more comprehensive than vulgar...

My posting above here in Early Aramaic Gospels is not intended to close off discussion, nor to be an all-or-nothing proposition. Can each of these three sources be seriously presented as written mostly while Jesus was still alive? Are the three sources viable as listed, or do they split into separat...

John 17: G 1 These things Jesus spoke, and G having lifted up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son in order that the Son may glorify you. 2 Even as you gave to him authority over all flesh, in order that everything which you have given to him, he may give to them...

Luke 19: 11 As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. 12 So he said, ‘A nobleman went to a distant country to get royal power for himself and then return. 13 He summoned te...

Luke 11: [37 He had just finished speaking when a Pharisee invited him to dine at his house. He went in and sat down at table. 38 The Pharisee saw this and was surprised that he had not first washed before the meal. 39 Then the Lord said to him,] ‘Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and o...

My thesis of seven written gospel eyewitnesses includes viewing the Johannine discourses as based on what Nicodemus gathered as trial evidence AGAINST Jesus. Yet for them to be valuable they must relate somewhat to what Jesus actually said. Thus in 2012 I aligned various sayings from the first half ...

My idea for John 21 as the original ending of Mark after 16:8 turns out not to be new. In 2007 James McGrath wrote about it. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/exploringourmatrix/2007/11/how-marks-gospel-originally-ended.html He seems to be saying that B. H. Streeter had the idea first a century ago in hi...

I used to blame encyclopedias for blatant over-simplification of the gospel-writing process, but apparently this traces to Rudolf Bultmann’s Geschichte in 1921 (repeated in 1957). According to Bo Reicke in The Roots of the Synoptic Gospels in 1986, “Bultman actually started with the result to which ...

"The recovery of Q led researchers to a strange conclusion. Since Q does not contain any Passion story, whoever first wrote the document must have regarded Jesus as a teacher of wisdom and nothing more. Jesus’s death held no salvific significance for that writer." .... That's sort of &quo...

McGrath’s MacDonald? Regarding Jesus and the Gospels, the 2013 Review of Biblical Literature mostly suggests all is quiet regarding historicity of Jesus. Bart Ehrman’s latest books we can expect to show up next year. Meantime even Martin Hengel’s (d. 2009) latest only shows up now, the 2010 translat...