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Is this the christian answer to the question where is the temple? You are? This is A Christian answer, but one that was grafted onto the Construction. Consider: John 2: 18 - 22 (RSV): [18] The Jews then said to him, "What sign have you to show us for doing this?" [19] Jesus answered them,...

I remain surprised that no one has countered my Thesis of seven written gospel eyewitness accounts of Jesus, but understand this as outside the Weltanschaung of anyone here. (Even the Christians are too conventionally orthodox to favor my radical new approach.) Perhaps the similar non-response to my...

You know how the Jehovah's Witnesses make so much of Jesus not being God the Son nor the Son of God? (I got into this because my sister became a JW and still is.) My study led to thinking just the opposite, that the Bible identifies Jesus as Yahweh (not as the son of Yahweh). That Blood has pointed ...

Ehrman's dot points make a pretty good, if not definitive, case for these early verses being an addition to the gospel. Placing the genealogy in chapter 3 at his baptism instead of in chapter 1 at his conception/birth is very odd, but makes total sense if one supposes the original started at Luke 3...

Doesn't sound like you read Jay's post today, Steve. The parallel would be that Peter or James got Jesus murdered!
By the way, thank's Jay, for getting at the truth of the Fard Fraud. He sounds like a character out of Boardwalk Empire, the HBO series in which Steve Buscemi stars.

No, my reference to B and other Alexandrian texts is that there in NO Greek (of any type) for Mark 16:9-20. Almost everyone agrees that the style there is much different , anyway. That's Lower Criticism. That Matthew after 28:8 was an earlier attempt at replacing the gap after Mark 16:8 is Higher Cr...

For those interested in my Jerusalem-vs-Galilee Hypothesis, I have not yet here stated one additional wrinkle. I have not encountered opposition to my theory that John 21 was very early, nor whether it was initially attached to Mark 16:1-8. (That is, no one has bothered to contest what I have been s...

I’m finding new evidence that my “lone-wolf” Higher Criticism is nevertheless meaningful and productive. I had heard of Bruce Chilton, and found two of his books side-by-side with trenchant analysis of 20th Century Synoptic Problem writings. He suggests that Sanday and Streeter in the early 20th Cen...

MrMacSon wrote:H4 That Josephus and Luke derived their passages from a common Christian (or Jewish-Christian) source -

Isn't that Joseph Atwill's thesis in Caesar's Messiah, that the same school of writers was commissioned for the gospels and Josephus, both based on the Roman campaigns and Vespasian c. 70 A.D?

(Quoting back Peter Kirby quoting me from Christian Forums) Bored with internet interchanges on my ideas, I resorted to reconnoitering my nearby academic library where I found Richard Bauckham's 2006 book still so hot it got a 2012 review. Christoph Stenschke wrote in Religion & Theology 19(2012...