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At the end of the post above I mentioned the connection I suspect between the Emmaus narrative and John 21. Searching the internet I found the following: The appearance which occupies the whole of John 21, whatever its origin and status, has some resemblances with Luke’s Emmaus story, even though it...

In my opinion the whole answer is in the first chapter of the fourth gospel, if translated correctly. For the use of λογος in John 1 see the first paragraph of the Wikipedia-entry ‘Pre-existence of Christ’. The Dutch scholar Pierre Krijbolder has made a brilliant translation of John 1, presenting a ...

The Emmaus narrative: Jesus’ first meeting with acquaintances on arriving home After my short contribution above, below I will try to give a more in-depth elaboration of the Emmaus narrative in the light of my chronological theory. The Emmaus story is a famous but also bizarre New Testament passage...

According to Nestle-Aland, Luke 24:12 is an interpolation. Below I will discuss verse 13, but I will start with verses 14-19a, which in my opinion is the original layer of this narrative together with verse 28-31a. 14 … and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. 15 While t...

Thank you SA for this very instructive thread. Why was Eusebius so focused on chronology, not only concerning the antiquity of the Jews, but also concerning Jesus and his time? Maybe he has lifted a tip of the veil himself in PE XI: For with those authors whose record of times is inconsistent, the h...

So you're argument for "interpolation" is that 1 The 2:16 is in the present tense, while all other references to the "wrath" are in future tense? There is not only the present perfect tense of the last sentence. The εἰς τἐλος at the end of the paragraph can as well be translated...

In an earlier thread I identified the riders of the four horses of Revelation 6 as the two Roman protagonists of the story. They are Roman equites, Vespasian (white + red horseman) and Titus (black + greenish horseman). There is an interesting side effect of that interpretation that I did not discus...

Giuseppe wrote: If I remember well, a Dutch Radical , Gustav Adolf van den Bergh van Eysinga, claimed that the case for the non-historicity of Jesus becomes more strong with the original pauline epistles, and not the contrary. The original stratum of the Pauline letters contradicts a Jesus 'under P...

The simplest explanation is that the letters were written after AD 70 and the "wrath" Paul was supposedly predicting in these (fake) letters was coming against "the Jews" (1 Thess 2:16) I don't believe things are as simple as that. 1 Thess 2:16 does not speak of the wrath to com...

Looking at the responses, we appear to have some kind of bias or preference in favor of the canonical texts (the NT) at work. In our search for the origins of Christianity, I suggest we should give preference to the difficult work, inside or outside the NT. The easy work - to reinterpret the NT tex...