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Here's an interesting take on what led to the Bar Kokhba Revolt - Hadrian When Publius Aelius Hadrianus, known to us as Hadrian, took the reigns of power in 117 CE, he inaugurated ― at least at first ― an atmosphere of tolerance. He even talked of allowing the Jews to rebuilt the Temple, a proposal ...

^ How accurately can people of the mid 2nd century, as Melito seems to have been, portray dates and time-frames from over 100 years previously?

Might Melito have been reflecting on a 'philosophy' other than Jesus-based Christianity?

I'm also intrgued by

2) Paul/Fake Paul, writing at a time when crucifixion was all the rage in Israel, smells anachronistic.

When do you think the Pauline texts were written?

JW : Keeping this party going, most people, including Skeptics, don't realize that we have no record of anyone being crucified in Israel in the first half of the first century outside of the Gospel account. Brown confesses this in his classic The Death of the Messiah . The setting supports this as ...

perseusomega9 wrote:Well Price does date the gospels to the mid to late 2nd century; and there's the issue of dating Marcion by the claims of the heresiologists. If we go by Huller's Alias then we also have the issue that Marcion means those of Mark.

those what? dates?

Some people don't like Carrier's application of them.

I hope everyone does know that the definition of Euhemerism means complete diddly squat outside of anything but the definition of Euhemerism. That's just the way definitions are. They change nothing but our language for describing things. That being the case, it's strange how involved people are in...

Well now, finally an admission from Carrier that he is seeking to use an ' adaptive ' version of Euhemerus. An adaptive version of Euhemerus which another poster on his blog has already labeled 'carrierization'... You're being highly disingenuous - Carrier refers to (i) 'theists euhemerizing their ...

Wed Aug 05, 2015 6:31 am Earlier in the book* [ Judith Lieu ] is highly skeptical of any reconstructions of Marcion's text and basically concludes that Tertullian and others didn't actually have any Marcionite texts in front of them when writing. * 'Marcion and the Making of a Heretic' As Stephan e...

Your mistaken No, I'm not. - that is the whole point of Euhemerus - the origin of the Olympian gods was earthly - whether you want to say that origin was legend or history. The theory of Euhemerus regarding the Olympian gods is that their origin was earthly. Yes, Euhemerus portrayed them as 'earthy...