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Steven Avery wrote:However, the issue is even more remote until we pin down the size of the actual Nazareth

200-400 is the typical well educated modern guess.

With regard to "year round" springs and the likelihood of settlement in such a place, I suppose the existence of large number of water cisterns throughout the region, including many that had been "perforated" by tunnels, thus rendering some of them less effective or useless as w...

Blood wrote:Scholarship was/is all over the map on this question.

Agreed.

Seems like the majority use the vague term "Jewish Christian" and are happy not to get into details for the first hundred years.

You get different scholars on each side that posit their opinion as you state.

Diversity or no diversity, circumcision was still a pretty strong marker of who was in and who was out in this time period, no? . Debatable. But I would place those that went that far wanted to be considered Jewish. But it wasn't the end all of the definition Pauls Judaism has and is still debated....

Thanks for the responses ... It might pay to try to discern what type of Jewishness one might find - Judaism had been & was increasingly diversifying by the late 1st & 2nd centuries AD/CE I would have to agree. Define 1rst century Judaism, then we can address the OP in context. Part of the ...

What is the evidence for and against the hypothesis that the authors of the canonical books of the Greek new testament were Jewish. Much of your question has do with how long did Jewish Christianity exist before the final divorce. If we use Paul as an example, it helps place this into context and w...

MrMacSon wrote:It might pay to try to discern what type of Jewishness one might find - Judaism had been & was increasingly diversifying by the late 1st & 2nd centuries AD/CE

I would have to agree.

Define 1rst century Judaism, then we can address the OP in context.

spin wrote:It's hard to claim that Mark represented "early belief".

I would only argue some earlier beliefs, in context.


Do you doubt Gmark is a compilation?

I think there's too much amateur dogmatism here. Agreed. One note not addressed. Did Aramaic Judaism have a different definition of Messiah, VS that of Hellenistic Judaism? it would be insane to think they were one in the same. All sects would have had different interpretations, based on geographic...

my opinion, the "common source that's now missing and was never mentioned in antiquity" is a longstanding, clever Christian apologetic to get out of accepting the fact that Luke (and to a much lesser extent, the other gospel writers) simply copied from Josephus ... with alterations to mak...