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Finally, Robert M. Price has a very interesting take on the Yeshua/Yehoshua issue on pages 414-417 of The Christ-Myth and Its Problems : in view of the work of Geo Widengren and Margaret Barker, … “Yahweh was one of the sons of El Elyon; and Jesus in the Gospels was described as a Son of El Elyon, ...

@Michael_BG Therefore if this core was written by the followers of John the Baptist it is unlikely that there is a link between Jesus Christ and Joshua as Gage claims, and more likely it reflects a link between the Joshua story and the Final Judgment we have already seen. I see that you're declarin...

But then says, “Our earliest extensive witness to these developments is Justin,” who is writing after 138 CE and maybe as late as c 155 CE. The key word there is 'extensive'. He also wrote: As a matter of fact, there are a few passages which support the idea of a pre-Christian second <g>IHSOUS</g> ...

Hopefully we all can agree that Philo does not have a heavenly being or angel called Jesus. Hopefully we all can agree that Philo does have a guy in Zechariah that is allegorized (by Philo) with his heavenly being or angel. That guy was named Jesus son of Iosedec. Philo sees that a companion of Mos...

Many people have seen the parallels between the language of Philo and the language used in some New Testament documents. However neither Zechariah nor Philo use the name “Jesus”. You are correct about Philo. But Zechariah LXX uses Ἰησοῦς, which is the Greek rendering of Joshua, the Latin transliter...

I believe that Howard's ideas have been discussed on Crosstalk2 (XTalk), Synoptic-l (not sure if it was in the old one or the current one, which is just plain "Synoptic"), both forums part of Google Groups, and the IOUDAIOS e-lists. Howard, while a bit, well, weird , he knows his Aramaic....

That Philo calls his angel : the first-born son of God the celestial image of God God's agent of creation God's celestial High Priest, etc, it's a mere coincidence. That Paul calls his Jesus: the first-born son of God the celestial image of God God's agent of creation God's celestial High Priest, e...

... or Philo never identifies a "Jesus angel." The angel from Zechariah ... is not a Jesus I gues we need to look at the specific passages from Philo - " Confusion of Tongues 62-63, 146-7", & " On Dreams 1.215; etc" - and from Zechariah - to fully assess Carrier's ...

As far as the "he" vs. "they" issue in Mt. 23 goes, regardless of the provenance of the Shem Tov Hebrew Matthew I think the passage at least makes more sense as "he" (i.e., Moses) and can see how vav and yod in Hebrew could have been easily confused by a translator. I ...

I subscribe to the theory of pMark, an earlier version of the Gospel to which Mark has made various expansions. Some exampl are 3:20 [22-30] 31-34; 6:7-13 [14-29] 30; 2:18 [19-20] 21-22; 9:33-37 [38-41] 42; 14:1-2 [3-9] 10-11. Perhaps the most important finding is that PN and pMark concluded at 15:...