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Ok. You've obviously not read the thread. The difficulty is with Symeon taking over c. 60 CE and the way the death is referenced by Epiphanius during Trajan while listing other heads of the Church in the interim. I read the thread. My post says there is no problem with the amount of names squeezed ...

Primogeniture was never a fast rule in the Bible. Seth, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Judah, Saul, David, Solomon etc, were not eldest sons. This is the case whether or not the father had succeeded to any title or position. Even Jesus, as the son of Joseph and a descendant of King David was n...

There is no problem with the list. There is no evidence that the men who succeeded to the leadership of the Jerusalem church were young men, nor that they held the position for life. Succession might have favoured the more elderly due to concepts of wisdom or that they knew Jesus and his disciples p...

Jesus had another disciple called Simon - Simon the Zealot/the Canaanite. He also had Simon the Leper/the Pharisee as his follower (the father of Mary, Martha and Lazarus). Then there is Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), and Simon the Tanner of Jaffa whom Peter knew, and Simon the...

I undertstand the possibility of a "realistic" interpretation of the account on JtB in Josephus along the same lines described by David, but the pattern is surprisingly similar to the irrational reaction of Herod when the Magi (just as the "others" in Josephus) came to him searc...

That being said, I think that John was attracting a following, first among repentant Jews (and this might have included Judeans of the Diaspora who had been able to retire to the homeland) and later among hot-heads, who were able to use John's sermons to raise the specter of rebellion. That was the...

John's followers were those he taught to lead a a life of justice and piety, and were baptised as a sign that they were righteous souls.. The 'others' were those who were aroused by his sermons, but did not follow his ascetic lifestyle. They were the ones Herod feared, for they would act upon the wo...

Josephus, in Book 1 of his Antiquities, wrote; “Cleodemus the prophet, who was also called Malchus, who wrote a History of the Jews, in agreement with the History of Moses, their legislator, relates, that there were many sons born to Abraham by Keturah: nay, he names three of them, Apher, and Surim,...

And you continue to make the most irrelevant comments. I did read the article, and am very much aware of the arguments for and against the pagan parallel proposition. My reason for bringing up Osiris and Dionysus is to show that, when Christianity and the Jesus story was beginning to emerge, such d...

I made a comment. Its an open forum. But saying that you don't have a point to prove, especially after making a rather irrelevant argument, just makes you come across as disingenuous. Please don't make irrelevant points or comments in future. This thread was about Tammuz & Jesus, with a linked ...