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Jesus is being a "white knight" here. That role has a few mythical parallels. So does almost everything men do. I've read up on Feminism . :) Not that I accept that Mark would be required to restrict himself to his antecedents under a mythicist scenario. Artists don't just use myths, they...

Could there something historical about this? Maybe yes and maybe no. How's that? I may not be an expert, but I have a very strong feeling that's the best answer we're going to get. :) Maybe Jesus was starting to go a little bit Hollywood or show some base, human tendencies? Maybe there is memory of...

Paul the Uncertain wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:16 am That's just John. And if my gaydar is at all calibrated, Mary B. is wasting her time with John's Jesus.

And there I was nursing a proto-thesis about him (Jesus) being married.

Not that that would mean your gaydar is necessarily askew. Or is John setting off the device?

Interesting article, which I enjoyed reading recently. Adolf Harnack's take on Marcion. Might be relevant to the OP:

http://www.marcionite-scripture.info/AH_1_Marcion.html

Also depends very much on what is meant by 'orthodox' and 'begun to exist'. It wouldn't likely have just popped up recognizably fully-formed. We can, it seems, trace it backwards, largely to 'Paul' (and via him to what would later be regarded as a non-orthodox Judean origin). I mean, setting everyth...

I don't think there is any evidence that orthodox Christianity existed for a long time after it is said to have begun to exist. That's incorrect. There is a lot of evidence. Such as? We did this already. Church fathers was the one example I gave, and there is lots of evidence about them. You disput...

This is possibly my favourite episode from the whole NT because of the latent eroticism.

Ebionites nor Nazarenes existed as an autonomous group before 130 ad, and whenever their parent Community came to be is unclear, but it was long after 70 ad. You have piqued my curiosity, despite my having previously arrived at the point where I think the origins are too obscure to make any meaning...

My general problem with this sort of thing is not the mere assertion or assertions ... What assertions? in the Abstract? of an article about a scientific study? ... which, despite that writer's optimism, can surely never 'definitely settle the debate' and certainly not through internal linguistic a...

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