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I hate to be trite, but this smirks of "If you can't kill the message, kill the messenger.".

Should all of this be taken as an indicator that the Gospel of Mark came along later than the other Gospels?

Giuseppe wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2018 1:44 am April DeConick recognizes that the ''Unknown God'' of Acts 17:16-34 is a Gnostic term.

Is there a web link you can provide for this?

When do we begin to witness the first definitive quotes and/or (more importantly) commentaries of Canonical texts which we can pin down to real people who lived within verifiable time-frames, and what are the earliest of those time-frames? BTW, I'm in the Stuart Waugh camp with regard to my belief t...

I believe that someone once argued (and even wrote a short book) with regard to all of the miracles of Jesus in the book of Mark (and by implication, in the other Gospels as well) actually being post resurrection events, and that Mark has somehow jumbled these into a pre resurrection history of Jesu...

Unless I'm misunderstanding him, Stuart Waugh makes the case that they are all post the Bar Kochba revolt. Hopefully he will chime in and elaborate.

It seems that there is another (an angel) to whom the name above all names has previously been bestowed: Exodus 23:20-25 “Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel again...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2018 11:42 am German authors see the first line as from Marcion's Antitheses (!)

Clarify as to the source and a quotation of this first line please.

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2017 9:40 am Remember there are two possibly etymologies for the Greek name 'Simon' in Hebrew.

I'm hooked. Please expound further.

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2017 10:24 pm Simon “is rightly called the Great Power of God.”

Why? And which Simon?