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This is the mountain to climb: http://peterkirby.com/john-the-baptist-authentic.html . Not even Peter Kirby addresses the my argument: Josephus doesn't explain nowhere why John is called “Baptist”. Only the Christian readers know the reason: John is called Baptist because he used to administer the ...

There were several "daily bather" groups back then. Did baptism evolve from this practice? Was John the Baptist (if a real human) a daily bather, or does he represent an insightful evolution which sprang from among those who followed this practice? If your goal is to judaize the Gospel ag...

I see that this same argument against the authenticity of the passage was already made by H. Graetz: Wie konnte auch Josephus geschrieben haben Ἰωάννου τοῠ ἐπικαλουμένου Βαπτιστοῠ, ohne für die griechischen Leser zu erklären, was denn eigentlich ein Täufer ist? Dieses Kapitel ist eine geschickt-unge...

Everybody back then was doing baptism! You couldn't walk down the street without tripping over someone doing baptism. Thus Josephus apparently wouldn't need to explain it. Are you joking? :D I would hope. Were they so clean? :roll: http://peterkirby.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/010-john-baptist-3...

I remember in a Church of Prague a statue of Moses where he is portrayed with "horns". A reference to the Moon as regulator and legislator of the time (and obviously Moses was a legislator).

So Josephus: [18.116] Now some of the Jews thought that the destruction of Herod's army came from God as a just punishment of what Herod had done against John, who was called the Baptist. [18.117] For Herod had killed this good man, who had commanded the Jews to exercise virtue, righteousness toward...

Elija = Helios Moses = the Moon In older myths, the Sun and the Moon were portrayed as paling before the appearance of the new God-Saviour. Curiously, in the Transfiguration episode, the garb of Moses and Elijah are paling beyond any limit before the appearance of the Son of an alien God. The act of...

The Transfiguration episode put bluntly and clearly Jesus on a superior level than the symbols of the old order, Moses and Elijah, who have to open the way, velim nolim, to the representant of the new order. Hence it makes a lot of sense if the Baptism Episode and the equation “John the Baptist = El...

The pious women have fear at the empty tomb because they realize that the demiurgical Son of Man is risen, and now, not being more possessed by the divine Christ of the Good God , he is the danielic Son of Man as they knew him before that he was possessed by the divine Christ: as the Destroyer sent ...

“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.” (Mark 9:37) Who welcomes the Son of Man (when the Son of Man is possessed by the divine Christ), he is not welcoming the Son of Man per se, but he is welcomin...