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I have read some of Couchud's articles online and had downloaded his article 1st Edition of the Pauline Epistles, so maybe not the book you are using, but I found his reasoning baffling. I am saying that the best explanation of the case Barabbas, in my view, is that given by Couchoud in this articl...

G., Take a look at Jesus and the Zealots by S G F Brandon (1967). He has an extensive section on this subject. DCH, you seem completely ignore the Couchoud's explanation of the Barabbas episode, whereas I know too much well the best case for a seditious (historical) Jesus (especially the Bermejo-Ru...

(Matthew 14:22-36) 22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, 24 and the boat was already a co...

In the days of His flesh , He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety. (Hebrews 5:7) It is clearly implicit the idea that only in virtue of the his being "in the flesh" , Jesus is su...

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood (Hebrews 13:12) This passage is really strange. It moves the reader to take no compromise about which gate is meant: the gate of the earthly Jerusalem or the gate of the celestial Jerusalem? Assume for a m...

Transpose it to Kitos and it works. Anything before then is meaningless. Surely the entire Jesus legend (=Gospels number 1, 2, 3, ...) is post Kitos. While the Christ Myth is before 70 CE. For example, Cyrene was destroyed by the Romans so there was surely a sense in saying that Cyrene "died&q...

My readers know already that I am completely persuaded that Couchoud has given the best explanation of the enigma Barabbas (basically, a judaizing parody of the Gnostic Son of Father). I think now that only that explanation may reveal another subtle clue of the same enigma: A man called Barabbas was...

About parallers of this kind, just now I realize another: any dyind and rising god is known by the his killers. The Titans knew Dionisos, Typho knew Osiris, the goddess knew Attis, etc. No kind of "Divine Secret" there.

So, why didn't the demons know Jesus in the original myth?

Note that Kovacs insists in saying that this view (archontic knowledge of who Jesus was) was exclusively pauline and only pauline. Clearly, the alternative (the idea that also the Pillars thought so, that demons knew the identity of the victim) would give ipso facto reason to the Mythicists. And the...

James does not ever call himself a pillar, as far as I am aware. Paul says that he was esteemed as a pillar in Gal. 2:9: surely Paul is meaning that James would like be called Pillar also by Paul himself, as pure act of submission. To think otherwise would be equivalent to consider James a kind of ...