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This type of analysis proceeds from the untenable assumption that the scholar knows what "the real Paul" thought and wrote. Something that doesn't make sense to the scholar is then dismissed as un-Pauline, as if everybody knows that "the real Paul" was a perfectly logical and con...

What could they possibly say that you haven't heard from them before?

GakuseiDon wrote:My own original thought: Women were used in the story, because women would have been less likely to have been thought to have carried the body away.

Very clever, Don. I hadn't thought of that.

"Gary Habermas was correct in saying: 70-85% of those who oppose do so out of emotion and not based on any verifiable evidence or rational reasoning."

LOL, as if defenders of the One True Faith were motivated by anything BUT emotion and wishful thinking.

Forgive me if this has been mentioned already. Dennis MacDonald's new two-volume book was published in November: (Vol. 1) The Gospels and Homer: Imitations of Greek Epic in Mark and Luke-Acts by Dennis R. MacDonald (Vol. 2) Luke and Vergil: Imitations of Classical Greek Literature "These two vo...

Women discover the dead body of Hector in the Iliad. Mark is writing a mini-Iliad via the LXX and Josephus. It also follows the general theme and theology of the gospel: everybody but "the Jews" recognized Jesus as the Christ, "the Jews" meaning the male religious leaders. Even &...

It's called apologetics, i.e. rationalizing a myth.

I found this title of interest while searching for that other book. From 1799 (first US edition: 1827). Ecce Homo!, Or, a Critical Inquiry Into the History of Jesus of Nazareth ... By Daniel Isaac Eaton You may know the name of the author, Daniel Eaton, as being the printer arrested and imprisoned f...

Napoleon is said to have earnestly asked the question. (Perhaps a reason behind the churchman's pamphlet questioning the existence of Napoleon .) I cannot locate the document supposed to be parodied here, Historic Doubts Relative to Jesus of Nazareth . Perhaps someone else can? I've never heard of ...

The Mithras movement spread rapidly throughout the Roman Empire at the same time as Christianity.

No historian wrote that Mithras didn't exist.

Therefore, Mithras existed.