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I think it might have been me who told you that, for a laugh.

(kidding)

FransJVermeiren wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 11:43 am ... the event which is orthodoxly called 'resurrection'.

Being pedantic, wouldn't the orthodox word for that be parousia?

And...which was the 1st Coming? If the speaking Jesus in the gospel was the 1st coming....what was the (after 3 days and temporary) resurrection? Was it 'Coming 1.1'?

hakeem wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:14 am Please name a Thessalonian who expected to "see it happening before death"?

Tim son of Trevor for starters.

.... if aspects of the NT narratives are indeed based on the texts of Josephus (and others), those NT narratives would have to have been written after Josephus's texts/books were circulated ie. after 80-95 AD. Quick thought. Assuming one can find parallels between the gospels and Josephus, how woul...

Text excavation is .....not something I am at all expert on. So I'll say very little about that. All I will say is that even though I, in my at least fairly well-informed but still amateur way, lean towards Jesus historicity, I still allow, in my head, that The James Passage has had 'brother of Jesu...

I might say one general thing though. Imho, it might be easier, I'm thinking, to tie the NT to the 1st Jewish War than to the Bar Kokhba Revolt. But I haven't looked into the latter before now. I think it was Jax who recommended to me a book doing the former , and I haven't followed that up yet eit...

As to whether it is 'just as easy' to move events to the 2nd C ... 'moving events to the 2nd C' is not what I was suggesting. I should have been clearer. I meant the writing of events. My bad. ... If they were all 2nd C, why are the events apparently backdated? Not a clincher, you understand. Just ...

archibald But 'Some of you will see it happening before you die' is a testable forecast. Not if there are two kinds of death, as Jesus has just said, at some length and with considerable insistence. Neither Jesus nor Mark put a chapter boundary there - it's all one speech. Similarly, Jesus will lat...

It can describe many things: appropriation of rituals or liturgy; qualities ascribed to certain deities being transferred to one another; adoption of iconography; intentional reformulation of dogma for the purposes of harmonization etc. Personally, I think your definition of what is and isn't syncr...

To add... If there isn't a book out there which proposes that the relevant events were more closely associated with the 60's CE...there arguably could or should be, imo. It seems at least as plausible as several others, at first glance. Is there a lucrative gap in the market, I wonder? And how about...