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The ezekiel's temple discussion made me wonder, and lo the google scholar appeared unto me :-) https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=H1oqpGN5WeMC&oi=fnd&pg=PT10&dq=comedy+gospel+of+mark&ots=tiDqkosCE7&sig=qsHZMXH4FUht4_kiyHVWWpw8oLo#v=onepage&q=comedy%20gospel...

Yup, down hill since this one God and his fetishists took over from Homer and the true gods

Umberto Eco writes in Baudolino: in the Acts of the Apostles it says that God from one man devised our humankind to inhabit the entire face of the earth, its face – not the other side, which doesn’t exist. “I don’t know if you have ever studied the measurements of the Temple, well don’t, because it...

[quoteItalo Calvino described a "deep-rooted tradition in Italian literature... the notion of the literary work as a map of the world and the knowable, of writing driven on by a thirst for knowledge that may in turns be theological, speculative, magical, encyclopaedic..." He was talking ab...

Can the date of the crucifixion of Jesus be understood as a theological construct to reverse engineer it using Daniel from the destruction of the temple?

Perfect (also known as a Parfait in French or Perfectus in Latin) was the name given by Bernard of Clairvaux to a monk of the medieval Christian religious movement of southern France and northern Italy commonly referred to as the Cathars. The term reflects that such a person was seen by the Catholi...

Mary beard's series on Rome noted that a temple is a home for a god, where they were basically left alone with a priest as a form of housekeeper and taken out for various public displays and ceremonies. She noted that the emperor's throne room in Triere was now a church where a different form of app...

This is very close to Pentecostal thinking - the tongues of fire or baptism of the Holy Spirit

Wasn't the Temple built with strong Roman support? Why would they level it? Romans loved big sacrificial ceremonial centres! Bread and circuses! Especially strange exotic foreign ones!