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Roger Parvous once stated that in the proto-orthodox redactions of Paul as we have them today, every unacceptable Zig Receives a Corrective Zag. All zigs from the Marcionites (or Simonians) are zagged by the additions of the proto-orthodox. The end result being incomprehensible as you state above. h...

I have no means whereby to prove it, but I suspect that much of the authorship of the NT was the product of various schools, with multiple teacher and student authors, and with debates leading to redactions happening right in the classroom. And perhaps as students left one school and traveled to ano...

Secret Alias argues that Marcion was emphatically Jewish. I'm not sure if he argues that he was Paul though.

I'm of the opinion that all of the Gospels were stage type performances.

Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2018 6:51 am

DCHindley wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 9:03 pmBen, I will gladly tackle to-morrow the 'ambiguous oracle' examples you posted to-day.

DCH (suddenly hungry for a hamburger)

How many people would "get" this reference?

I will gladly pay you Tuesday...

Two suns at once. A supernova?

According to Epictetus, the Galileans are obstinate unto death; according to Marcus Aurelius, the Christians are obstinate unto death. And now you are pointing out that the "movement" inaugurated by Judas the Galilean involved people who "reckoned as little the undergoing of various ...

Judas the Galilean was the author of the fourth branch of Jewish philosophy. These men agree in all other things with the Pharisaic notions; but they have an inviolable attachment to liberty, and say that God is to be their only Ruler and Lord. They also do not value dying any kinds of death, nor in...

Does this dating imply that there is a possibility for the Teacher Of Righteousness to be Jesus?

In ancient Mideastern mythologies isn't it common for the universe to come into existence as a consequence of (or effectively being made out of) the slaying or splitting open of some form of god-like creature, immediately following the culmination of a great battle between the gods? Does that sound ...