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Funny how I came to the same outcome when I knew nothing about any of it all: Why did Mark have Jesus baptised ? The Messiah comes to the temple of the forerunner, is what Malachi said : Not precisely the same thing. Bauer's point is that the primal impulse to disturb John the Baptist is the need &...

...when restoring Van Manen: not everything gets OCR-ed correctly. I spent 100 hours on Paulus, restoring the original text in the exact same format including footnotes and 1/3rd of the Greek, and translating it into English The National Library of the Neherlands digitized: Manen, W. C. van (1890)....

If you need help with any German just holler, I'm near-native Much of the damage is done but if you happen to see any aggravatingly poor translations I have posted do please let me know so I can correct/improve anything. Will do. I'll certainly not read it back to back but I'll have a peek here and...

For those interested, an academia.edu Discussion is running on this paper IS said: the reign of king of the father, she is comparable to a human, - Prologue has he therein a good seed; - Subject his enemy came within the night, he throw-sowed a Zizanion upon the good seed. - Starting state The human...

ETA If someone really did believe that Marcion's gospel is the first narrative gospel, then that person ought to consider that it is seriously possible that Marcion did not know, because no contemporary of his could possibly know, whether or not there was a real Jesus who actually lived a saeculum ...

Contrary to the mainstream paradigm I don't think that any Christian hands touched anything at all in the NHL. It represents IMO a purely Hellenistic (pagan) product produced by those of the "underground" who were resisting the Christian revolution of the 4th century. Thomas refutes your ...

I don't know that vulgar early Christians were that different from vulgar modern Americans. Could Americans venerate a narrative which was intentionally fictitious? You are once again confusing everything. Let me take you by your own chaotic thought process: Surely the gospel understood that the ev...

Not only that but as a result they have run with their assumption that the "Christian sounding" tracts in the NHL (Gospels of Thomas and Philip, the Acts of Peter and the 12) were composed by Christians. Indeed the assumption that any mention of XS or IS in any NHL tractate implies a Chri...

You’re right Giuseppe. In general, mythicists are not interested about the reasons of the dating under Pilate. To answer you, Mark (or the author of the first gospel if you prefer) put Jesus under Pilate for multiple reasons. But the principal would be the oracle in Daniel 9:24-27. This oracle fed ...

I think that the Greek is much more helpful than anything, and Mark Bilby has done an incredible job in that regard with even morphologically tagging it all

https://zenodo.org/record/7795764#.ZFBd13ZyY0E is the latest version, April 3rd