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to Cora, My question is: what does nazoreans mean then ???? I am lost. I don't know myself. But I think that "Nazarene" might be an invention of "Mark" meaning: from Nazareth Actually it is gMatthew alone which claims Jesus was a Nazarene because of prophesy. As usual there is n...

I'm pretty sure that "born of a woman, born under the law" is also an anti-Marcionite interpolation. Unfortunately, Tertullian provides us with a confusing comment on the passage. He comments on Gal 4:4 with no mention of, "born of a woman, born under the law", but had also just...

In an Epistle attributed to Barnabas the author appears to know nothing of the so-called Paul as an early evangelist or letter writer. The author of the Barnabas Epistle claimed that it was the chosen apostles of Jesus who preached the Gospel--no mention of Paul. Barnabas 5:9 And when He chose His o...

Though the information is quite sketchy, it seems that we can identify the relationships of various individual to Paul. I don't have it all mapped out, but I was wondering if anyone does? For example, we know the following: Barnabas was a fellow apostle with Paul Marcion was the first to publish a ...

It is virtually certain that the author of Acts knew nothing of an apostle called Paul or used the Epistle to the Galatians. In the so-called Pauline Epistle the author called himself an apostle. Please, carefully examine the very first verse of Galatians. Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle , (not of me...

Is the relationship b/w Galatians and Acts Galatians -> Acts? or Acts -> Galatians? Before we get carried away with arguments for two Jameses in NT Galatians it must first be remembered that neither the Epistles to the Galatians nor the Acts of the Apostles are historical writings about their Lord ...

The detail about Damascus surely comes from Galatians. The rest is very hard to say, given the fact that Luke was clearly manipulating his source and not necessarily following it. One can presume that if Gal 1:18-24 were written based on Acts, that the interpolator would have made it match Acts mor...

The later we date Acts, the less astounding that becomes. There were plenty of Christians by a certain point in time who were downright eager for Jesus not to have a brother. It is not entirely clear to me when exactly that trend began, partly because some of the most important texts (such as the P...

... Christian writings claim James the Lord's brother was still alive c 68 CE or after the death of Peter which means James in Antiquities of the Jews 20.9.1 must have been some other person. Where are you getting this c. 68 CE date from, and how do you know when Peter died? It is claimed in the Pr...

Especially given that the writer of Acts had knowledge of Galatians, not to mention that Paul met the brother of Jesus is a pretty big deal. You really think there is nothing unusual about the fact that the writer of Acts clearly read Galatians (evidenced in multiple places) and said nothing about ...