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Carrier on the Ascension of Isaiah, Part2 "Key to understanding this text is the evidence that it's been tampered with. Even apart from the manuscript evidence ...

First, there's the texts that attest to a primitive, egalitarian Christianity, like the Didache, Pliny's testimony, and various pieces in Paul's letters ...

Hi Bertie, "First, there's the texts that attest to a primitive, egalitarian Christianity, like the Didache, Pliny's testimony, and various pieces in Paul's ...

Lately I've been trying to learn about Radical Criticism or so-called "Paul Mythicism". One feature of this theory is a sort of "esoteric primacy", a finding the origin of Christianity in gnosticism, Jewish ...

Hi Arnoldo, Thanks for the information. The book provides evidence that the wealthy were the ones who traveled ... that poor people traveled. However the most interesting point was this: Every year too the 'didrachma 4 ' was sent up by each Jew to the Temple, and the conveyance of these ...

... A. J. Skell (1872-1951) wrote a book entitled," T ravel in the First Century after Christ " which apparently is in public domain ... the following is a brief quotation; OBJECTS OF TRAVEL. IN the history of the early Church, as recorded in the New Testament, there are two ...

... didn’t give Melchizedek a tenth of anything. It is Melchizedek who gave the tenth. Why? The majority of Gn 14:20 translations say exactly "Abram ... make it clear that Abraham was the one who gave the tithe to Melchidezek (e.g. GenR 43:8) See following link for further notes: http://books.google.com/books?id=7YRFizhgCokC&lpg=PA207&dq=genesis%2014%3A20%20text&pg=PA208#v=onepage&q&f=false ...

... F. Mason, You Are a Priest Forever: Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews , pp. 33–34: In Heb 7:4-10 the author develops his assertion ...

Hi Peter, I don't think we have proof of pre-70 Christianity. The few possible indications fall short of proof, e.g., (1) The texts of Suetonius and Tacitus refer to Christians / Chrestians assigned blame for the fire in Rome in the ...

Hi Peter, I don't think we have proof of pre-70 Christianity. The few possible indications fall short of proof, e.g., (1) The texts of Suetonius and Tacitus refer to Christians / Chrestians assigned blame for the fire in Rome in the ...