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Again, I posit the return of the Oniads to Judea under Herod, which catalyzes the Christos cult. Marked by its violence. However, later Christianity ...

Almost 100 yrs earlier, Epistle to the Hebrews c.55 AD is a fairly novel Christos doctrine taught (by Apollos, one of these early Judeo-Xtians) ...

... It's racist language that doesnt work in N.America, but I think I get the point: heterodox Judaism. yes I have used deepl translate :roll: The French original is métis . Almost 100 yrs earlier, Epistle to the Hebrews c.55 AD is a fairly novel Christos doctrine taught (by Apollos, ...

... is transformed. This sentence is probably true for Christianity: the appearance of Christianity marks the disappearance of Alexandrian Judaism. ... more c.135 AD? Yet, after the pogrom of 38 AD and the devastating Kitos War, Alexandrian Judaism disappears c.120 AD; by the Bar Kokhba revolt ...

Roger Parvus: What I am suggesting is that the community from which the Revelation prophecies emanated was already in existence ... scholars agree that the author of Revelation brought older oracles into his work and incorporated some of them with little or no alteration. And so Earl ...

Other interesting points: Where (Father) El-Kronos is Saturn and (Son) Yahweh is Jupiter, then ... Melchizedek-Logos, then replacing El-Kronos ‘Evil Dad’ c.500 BC? And lastly, the Christos (New Son) supplants Melchizedek-Logos altogether in Epistle to the Hebrews. I think one ...

... is saying that Alphaeus is a substitution for Cronus (perhaps Yam as the god of rivers), and that Theudas is your Ieoud/Adonis of Byblos. Either way, the use of the names Alphaeus and Theudas seem to invoke whatever tradition has inspired Sanchuniathon. The coincidence of River ...

... one explains away his mentions of John Baptist, James and Jesus—even if the last was altered from, roughly, some folks thought he was Christ to he was Christ—Josephus , by the 90s CE was aware of Christians. This is a common way of ...

RE: Did the author of Acts write any other books? "...the semantic parallels between Luke-Acts and Hebrews detailed in the “linguistic argument” are hard to overlook and should set the stage for future conversations about the authorship of Hebrews." ...

And right on point, see Prof. Dalgaaard's 2013 PhD : Margaret Barker, The Great Angel: A Study of Israel’s Second God (London: Westminster John ... 88–89; 224, also proposes that the name Melchizedek in 11Q13 refers to Yahweh, yet with the additional unique interpretation that Yahweh does ...