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...a temple-based ritual in Jerusalem cannot continue because the Temple is destroyed... The author consistently uses the Greek present tense ... Ergo, it's definitely earlier than 70 AD. And since there is a 'Christos' conversion going on here - but also without Gospels - it must be relatively ...

... nameless because I don't think he's published on this yet) who thinks the Epistle to the Hebrews is deliberately trying to be taken for a Pauline letter, as it indeed was in ...

So, I have been thinking for the past little while about whether the Letter to the Hebrews could be dated post 70 CE.. My question, therefore, is whether anyone (not invoking vast ...

So, I have been thinking for the past little while about whether the Letter to the Hebrews could be dated post 70 CE. Given the fact that the Letter to the Hebrews, even as it strives ...

See (Alabama Congressman, lawyer, amateur historian & spiritualist) Willis Brewer “Egyptian Origin of the Word ‘Christ’,” The Open Court: Vol. 1908, No.5. LINK. At the period when the Septuaguint was prepared ...

From Wikipedia Melchizedek is seen as a divine being in the text and is referred to as "El" or "Elohim", titles usually reserved for God.[39] According to the ...

To that list should be added Attis. Although I cannot see why the Byblos variant should originate from Pessinus in Phrygia (and I do NOT think it does), there's a strong analogy ...

A Ptolemy orders a very small group of scribes (Mosaic Cult?) to consolidate/rewrite Jewish lore for their Alexandrian political agenda. Israel should be a vassal and buffer state. Another Ptolemy continues the project. ...

Thank you for this! I'm not in agreement w/ many of the claims, HOWEVER Bolland (1907) is offering ideas which may have interested ... (1935) argued for a Jewish mystical cult - his thesis was ignored. I need to reconsider possible correspondence of my 'late' source. Der Josua der Evangelien ...

All this also presupposes many father-warriors raised sons to be soldiers. Perhaps. If so, my Melchizedekian thesis looks iron-clad: Battle-God Melchizedek as a ...