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This is even clearer. According to Origen, the Logos (= Christ) was 'in the beginning' and made the Holy Spirit who in turn is the mother of the lesser ...

Hi, In earlier pages, there is a quote-snippet from Scrivener. However the full quote is very helpful, since ... the yellow condition of the manuscript was an element in the age considerations. Historically, this is very important as well. Just about the only potentially theoretically ...

My approach revolves around the development of the Jesus story. Specific dating is not necessary for this approach - however, different time frames are. As of now.... ...

Hi Mac, Carrier and Doherty are openly acknowledged to have advanced the best theological argument so far for a mythical Jesus. Their argument however carries the "Trojan ...

Yes I agree with the idea that things aren't 'settled' here. But don't we have to start with the question about whether Luke is a forgery of Mark or Mark's source? Once we establish that ...

Thanks for these reflections Bertie. Do you know whether Carrier uses this 120 CE cut-off date for all the evidence or just the historical hypothesis evidence. The reason that I ask this is because AFAIK quite a large amount of the weight ...

Huller wrote: "So it would be your [John T] argument that there was a group that the 'messenger' of Isa 52:7 who is here also the anointed ... here is one of conflating, or melding of words like, messenger/prophet into messiah/anointed one . Got to keep them separated in this case. Although ...

Examining the dating of the Ascension of Isaiah [AoI] Here are some further comments on the dating of AoI currently dated to the 1st or 2nd century. According to the OP I need to explain why it isn't dated after Nicaea. I have ...

But having unrolled the books of the prophets which we had, found, sometimes expressed by parables, sometimes ... and sometimes directly and in so many words naming Jesus Christ … I never fail to be astonished at phrases like this. What specific texts could Clement (or Peter) have ...