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Merry Christmas all, I am at present trying to research both King Aretas III and also IV for a book that I am writing. I am therefore trying to find as much information as possible about the subject. What sources do we have from the ancient world that discuss these rulers? So far I am aware of the m...

ARGUMENT FROM UNIQUE AGREEMENT 1. The Editorial Board for The Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus "disagree on just about everything when it comes to Jesus and the sources pertaining to him" . 2. All The Board agrees though "that (1) Jesus existed and (2) people who deny hi...

Thanks Dave and John2,

Dave, I am going through the archives now.

Maybe Robert Eisenman? I haven't read any of his books, so I may very well be mistaken. But I suspect a pre-CE Paul goes along with a pre-CE Jesus. From Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher_of_Righteousness Robert Eisenman has proposed James, brother of Jesus as the Teacher against a "W...

While watching a youtube video lecture by Richard Carrier, Carrier mentioned that there were arguments by some scholars for Paul having written his letters either in the second century or the 1st century BCE. He further stated that the arguments were valid ones that were worthy of consideration. I h...

I guess my question would have to be, why?

What's more, Galatians itself is a late work--roughly post-Kitos. Hi Joseph D. L, I would be interested in seeing arguments for this if you would be kind enough to link me to them. Thank you. Jax Don't have time to go in depth at the moment, but I will give a summation for now. The Pauline/Marcioni...

Joseph D. L. wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:46 am What's more, Galatians itself is a late work--roughly post-Kitos.

Hi Joseph D. L, I would be interested in seeing arguments for this if you would be kind enough to link me to them.

Thank you.

Jax

Any fans here of James Tabor? IMO the best interpreter of Paul alive today. Until now, I had never heard of him, but when I read things like this "By his parents' marriage, Jesus was better placed to be King of Israel than Herod Antipas was. The two contradictory blood lines in the gospels are...

I hear ya. Me in my younger days before my tragic deep fryer accident.