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Russell Gmirkin says: 2021-10-31 17:25:59 GMT+0000 at 17:25 My starting-point for understanding the significance of the Jewish War to early Christianity is the book of Revelation, which appears to date to spring of 70 CE based on the failed prophecy of Rev. 11:2, which knew about the siege of Jerus...

1. Where in Paul is a reference to Jesus's having a human father (aside from perhaps David, which led to the strange "David's heavenly sperm model" from Dr. Carrier). When eyewitnesses were still alive, Paul wrote about a minimal Jesus (but also, for Paul, pre/post-existent as a heavenly ...

Well, I don;t know how honest Paul was (generally speaking), but he does say in Gal. 1:13 that, " For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism," which could mean that his credentials were known. From whom would Paul's audience have heard such things? In the absence of evidence t...

Well, I don;t know how honest Paul was (generally speaking), but he does say in Gal. 1:13 that, " For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism," which could mean that his credentials were known. From whom would Paul's audience have heard such things? In the absence of evidence t...

However Paul indicated Jesus had been a human (born from human parents) Cordially, Bernard Leaving aside all of the controversies about whether the references to brothers and born of a woman are interpolations (and in the case of brothers, referring to biological kinship), I have 2 questions. 1. Wh...

If the instigator called "Jesus" was deified rapidly by his followers, obviously his words (whatever they were) were to rise immediately to the rank of divine utterances. And reported faithfully as such. Not necessarily. Julius Caesar attracted a strong following and was murdered after wh...

What then do you suppose Paul means by "the traditions of my fathers"? Do you think it is only a coincidence that this is what the oral Torah of the Pharisees is commonly called (including in the NT)? 1. Why assume that Paul was being honest rather than, like Yogi Bhajan, inflating his re...

I understand that karavan has posted within this thread again. However, because e is within my "ignore list", I am not seeing what e wrote - and, given eir consistent rudeness, unwillingness to read resources that I cited for em, distortion of my claims/arguments, and unwillingness to cite...

And since the Sadducees rejected the traditions of the fathers, Paul cannot have been a Sadducee. And since Paul doesn't appear to have been an Essene to me, I think the best option is that he was a Pharisee. And most Jews then were Pharisaic (at least in Israel), just like today, and according to ...

Quasi in answer to your question, Neil has started a thread about the Book of Revelation being pro-Zealot and anti-Vespasian propaganda. Read in particular the comments of Gmirkin and Doudna on Vridar. Thanks, I'll have a look. Hardly one can deny that Revelation is bloodthirsty, more precisely thi...