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... is a loooong document, but giving it a brief read through during lunch today it does not really come across to me as "Gnostic" (big G). I would say closer to the epistle to the Hebrews. That citation of Revelation about the angel calling the birds ...

For Gaius was known in antiquity as ‘the bishop of the nations’ or if you will the Pauline episcopal counterpart to the Petrine bishop of Rome. You are no doubt familiar with the context, but I needed a refresher. ...

... c.55 AD) isn't Apelles. Apollos is an absurdly common name: no need to conflate multiple variant spellings to imagine a single person in decades of history. I try to sort out the names & dates. Caveat lector! This is only my best effort, subject to change. ...

to Jax, Some of your quotes validate hakeem's position that the church fathers were wrong to attribute 1 and 2 Thimothy, Titus, and Hebrews to Paul. Of course they were wrong. ...

E.Yamauchi, Pre-Christian Gnosticism (1973) Link , pp.158-9. VIII. THE MAGHARIYAH To support the thesis of a Jewish origin of Gnosticism some have sought to find Jewish evidence ...

A few notes ... See Ioan P. Culianu, “The Angels of the Nations and the Origins of Gnostic Dualism,” in Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions Presented to Gilles Quispel on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, ed. by Vermaseren et al. [1981], p.86. ...

... pre-1939 scholarship. This 1981 essay by I.P. Culianu adds smthg: The idea that an angel of the Lord is the creator of the world is assigned to Simon Magus by the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitiones33 and to ...

... pre-1939 scholarship. This 1981 essay by I.P. Culianu adds smthg: The idea that an angel of the Lord is the creator of the world is assigned to Simon Magus by the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitiones33 and to ...

... the Jews expected their Christ, their Messianic ruler... Tacitus himself wrote about the fact ... Tacitus' Histories 5.13 ... there was a firm persuasion, that in the ancient records of their priests was contained a prediction ...

An earlier thread on the theory that the gospel Jesus = Jesus ben Saphat. (Revolutionary leader in Josephus ... the Jesus of the gospels: one and the same person http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4742&hilit=time Frans Vermeiren has published a book on his theory. ...