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You can go to the Freethought Nation Forum to find what other discussion there is. If you are polite, you can even post there. Rubbish. You know that that is not true. Seconded. Why would anyone want to go to Freethought Nation Forum expecting a serious and open scholarly-critical discussion when w...

Do you think I should check the meaning in Jesus' day with Maurice Casey? I hear he knows a little Aramaic.

you're probably already aware of this, but Robert Price has changed his mind about Acharya S and now considers her a developed and decent scholar even though she has not moved away from her astrotheological views "To me, the most interesting aspect of Acharya’s work is her pursuit of old, now ...

I have come across this in Karel Hanhart's The Open Tomb , p. 441: (1) The original nickname Cephas means "pointed rock"; it may go back to Jesus himself calling Simon this in good humor. (2) But Mark prepared the readers of his post-70 Haggadah for his parting phrase in 16:7 by consistent...

On the humorous side is Vridar accusing anyone else of hardening their position to the point of cultishness. I think we need to be clear what constitutes cultish behaviour. I have been a member of a cult and can recognize the symptoms all too well. Obviously people wrapped up in such a movement or ...

I hope it is noted that the only excerpt from Swerdlow's criticism of Ulansey I quoted was the singular point that another scholar, Beck, found agreement with. I deliberately avoided citing any other criticisms by Swerdlow since they are more polemical than scholarly and not widely accepted by schol...

all these references to "scientific" - surely that is a category error: not much around theology is 'scientific' Robert Tulip has insisted from the outset that astrotheology is scientific. He has stressed always that his methods are hypothetico-deductive according to standard scientific m...

. . . The point here is that the whole Jesus story is allegory for cosmic reconciliation, but most people are in a fallen alienated condition, and cannot understand the need to connect spirit and nature, which is what “understanding about the loaves” means. This idea of connection between spirit an...

it illustrates the difficulty of using eisegesis as a term of abuse Who has used eisegesis as a term of abuse? When will you stop interpreting every honest criticism and exposure of the logical fallacies of parallelomania as some sort of persecution? with the broken pieces representing the constant...

I can't resist alerting readers here to a very nice post "Some Thoughts on the Nature of the Evidence and the Historicity of Jesus" by Tim Widowfield on James McG's Bible and Interpretation post.