Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Well, how can Jesus be a sock puppet for Paul when Paul doesn't ever quote said Jesus?

As for a forum, does it really matter what someone calls themselves? Real or alias, it doesn't really matter, all that matters is the content of their posts. And really, I someone like Ehrman wants to put out feelers to test new ideas, more power to him. This really should be encouraged IMHO. As for...

^ Oh yeah. Ben C. Smith is really Mark Goodacre.

Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't take it any more! OK! Fine! You outed me!

I'm really Robert Eisenman! Not John T not John 2! Me! Jax!

Happy?

God! Give it a rest already. Seriously!

^ OK. Cool.

Having said that, I do like his approach. Although Carrier is a dreadful writer when it comes to him explaining complex ideas, I like the way OHJ is laid out, with its background knowledge section, then going through the literature to see if the literature supports one side or another. I'd like to ...

I'm a little confused myself. If Passover is usually in mid April and the new day starts at sunset and sunset at that time of the year is usually around 8:00 pm then the third hour would be around 11:00 pm, the sixth around 2:00 am, and the ninth around 5:00 am right? How could there have been darkn...

I have to say that after reading the write up of Peter Kirby that was supplied by Ben Smith above http://peterkirby.com/john-the-baptist-authentic.html that I am fairly of the opinion that the account in Josephus is indeed more likely to be authentic to that work. This, for me anyway, begs the quest...

MrMacSon wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2017 11:57 am
There are very few primary ancient or classical historians engaged in early Christianity, let alone the issue of the historicity of the NT Jesus

Would be nice to make a list of them.

New thread?

Interesting... "The first question to determine, I think, is whether it is probable that Matthew used a version of Luke. If this does seem likely then there is a follow-up question: which version of Luke did Matthew use? If Matthew used Marcion's Gospel (or some other form of Proto-Luke) then t...