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GMark offers no direct disclosure about who cut the ear off. The only people in the scene described as bearing swords are the arresting "multitude" (14:43, 48). The scene is chaotic, with uncertain illumination. There is no textual foundation to eliminate what in modern times is called &qu...

the negative light captures them not because they asked alone, but because they asked with the Pharisees . The friend of your enemy is your enemy. This is a nice illustration of the English-language expression to pile assumptions upon assumptions . The text doesn't say who they are, and to get this...

it is sufficient to prove that John the Baptist is opposed to Jesus in *Ev, despite of him being called Elijah by Jesus himself, in order to see the John's disciples in a negative light in Mark 2:18, just as the Pharisees are usually in Mark: Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. The...

This is probably irrelevant to your main point, but although the Memoirs of Ptolemy have been lost they were used as a main source by Arrian in his life of Alexander. I think that is relevant. Stone credits Robin Lane Fox's Alexander the Great , which suggests that Stone (or the relevant staff in h...

Mark 16:8 : They went out, they fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid. An immediate objection to the hypothesis that GMark should end at verse 16:8 is aesthetic. The ending is "abrupt." Aesthetics weighs litt...

Giuseppe wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 4:40 am ok with the pro-Roman propaganda as short-term goal. But don't remember that as long-term goal, the Christians wanted the destruction of all the material kingdoms, Rome included.

Where's that in a gospel?

Very nice. Probably what becomes a "broken record" comment after a while: conditional independence skepticism: Once Carrier assesses his prior on the basis that the character Jesus was written up in one heroic mode (e.g. the "kingly hero" model-archetype of Rank-Raglan), then it ...

Before taking the dive, just a heads up. In American English, to make a baby doesn't usually mean "to give birth." If it refers to a specific part of reproduction, in my experience it tends to mean to perform sex with the intention or result of pregnancy. On the other hand, it can also con...

Yes, it looks like the author of Acts is following Paul's letters. Thus the reference in Acts to Paul meeting "James" when Paul went up to Jerusalem can only be "James, the brother of the Lord", though he isn't identified as such in Acts -- which I think is significant, though I...

Yes, I think this is your strongest use yet of holding Carrier to his projection of the hypothesis space. Regardless of Luke's sources for the trial scenes, we do have seven examples of what Carrier accepts as Paul writing with the hope to persuade. There's nothing there about Jesus's miracles while...