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Yet acknowledging that the Judean God is the supreme god is not the same as being taxed. This age, at least in Judea, would be incredibly fruitful, and in some POVs this might extend all over the world. In either case, the gentiles might send thanksgiving offerings to the Jerusalem temple of the su...

What happens on the tremendous day of the Lord? Is the anonymous Christ an Essene Emperor? Just a brief reply. The day of the Lord is the culminating day of transition between two periods: the abhorred Roman period of oppression and religious and moral decline under the emperor, and the Essene peri...

But , once the Emperor of Rome is gone , what will the anonymous Christ put in his place ? What would replace the Emperor of Rome in the community of men and women? Rome’s Jewish enemies, the Essenes, had to make an enveloping movement when propagating their own triumph and the utter defeat of the ...

Could you give one example of a cryptogram from the book of Norman Beck? Colossians 2: 8-10 See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole f...

Who was the Christ that Paul was propagating? Just a few characteristics of Paul’s Christ: 1. He is a future and therefore anonymous ruler. The name ‘Jesus’ is foreign to Paul’s original writings. Sometimes the ‘Jesus’ addition in the manuscripts is clear (see Nestle-Aland - I counted seven occurre...

Would this attack against the Roman cult explain the persecution of Christians ? I don’t think so. Paul’s mission fits in with the rising tension between the Jews (the Essenes in particular) and the Romans in the first century CE, that culminated in the war of 66-70 CE. Paul’s position was unique i...

The Messianic banquet I miss the most evident textual connections in the discussion. 1. With Luke 7:22-23 “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to...

Paul’s struggle against the imperial cult A couple of days ago I wanted to start reading the ‘A mythicohistorical approach to Christian origins’ post (what an attractive title, by the way) for which I didn’t have time until then. But I got caught by the first quote of the OP, 2 Corinthians 11:3-4, w...

The Emmaus narrative (Luke 24:13-35), John 21:1-13 and Luke 24: 36-42: the report of Jesus’ first day back home In my previous post Evans notices some resemblances between Luke’s Emmaus story and John 21 despite the two different territories in which the stories play. Earlier I argued that the Emma...

Why would someone say, "Let us also go, that we may die with him"? As I have pointed out, a child might say something of the sort. In awe of traveling with a Priest, he might think that going to Jerusalem to die might be just fine - "Shall we bring fire from the heavens and destroy t...