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Zebedee could be another (baptismal?) name for John the Baptist If Zebedee means 'the gift of God' the Samaritan woman at the well we have "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink', you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water&quo...

I just thought Rev 16 a bit unusual "Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and who was, because You have brought these judgments. 6For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink as they deserve." The name "Holy one" is quite rare, u...

Please feel free to ask more questions. Thankyou for the information I do have one question, where it has "you have given them blood to drink as they deserve" is this future prophecy or a commentary on the present? could it not be seen as a pejorative against Pauline blood / wine sacramen...

klewis, interesting but could you identify the parts that don't derive from the OT how about the book of life, tree of life (is it mentioned outside Genesis?), woman standing on the moon, hell, or are there too many to list? I had a feeling it was composed of several documents, conceivably one of th...

yes Guiseppe indeed this is some slender evidence for pre-Christian Gnostic ideas too if you go back far enough it resembles the descent of Inanna, but i'd still argue the original Christians exist as distinct from the later applications of this myth, they have to without anything directly tying the...

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. A good example of P...

sigh ok fair points Mary M doesn't need such support i guess, damn thought i'd found something there, i hadn't thought it could refer to the Pilate wife episode which i'd forgotten about. but yes i do think that stuff is from later on but still a useful source, apart from the Maria the proselytite l...

No, but i'd be interested in what he says. The impression I got was a lot of scholarship on them was early, reformation era almost and kind of set in stone
The thing is, the woman he mentions does look a bit like Pilate's wife dream i'll admit that

maybe or maybe not likely! why call her silly then? or not name her? especially when he doesn't blame any Roman in his line up he is also changing timeframe as he mentions her and begins to talk after the crucifixion. he also said 'dreams' not the singular. these points cast doubt on that. instead w...

It is worth pointing out that this extract comes from the epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians, universally acknowledged to be spurious and usually dated to century IV or later ha, even the 4th century is truly ancient and those opinions are essentially guesses. so, can't contain earlier material...