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It's fucking stupid. Why did you come back? Of all the stupid people promoting stupid theories you and yours was the most stupid. Again, thanx for your kind words, Stephan. The Mishmarot Thesis stands. It hasn't been challenged yet. The Roman Thesis stands as well, although this interests me less t...

Charles in charge! Sure that's the ticket. It's all some code for a Roman historical personage. Thank you for your kind words. 'N no, it's not "...all some code". It's actually quite circumscribed and narrow in scope. That's the point. Yes, the Romans did it. They stole what they could an...

Ben- This may be more informational than otherwise. It is certainly not argumentative since the position given here appears to be understood by a minority of one... The General Thesis is that the character "Paul" is based on the Syrian Governor "Mucianus" (The Vision on the Road ...

Tenorikuma wrote : For what it's worth, the one that really has me convinced is the Beelzebul controversy. I don't see how you can reconstruct that if Luke used Matthew. On Tenorikuma's page https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/jesus-and-the-beelzebul-controversy-a-devilish-synoptic-pu...

Now, his subjects hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us!’ (v. 14) ‘However, these enemies of mine who did not want me to rule over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me!’ (v. 27) To these two complete verses I would add the intr...

My argument relates to a remembrance of a past event in the gospel 30/33 c.e. time frame. I come to praise maryhelena, not to bury her. The SINGLE episode around Antigonus is appealing to me as an Icing-on-the-Cake finish to the Hasmonean/Ascension of the Flavians Rewrite by the Romans. I would fee...

1. Titus was supposed to be Deified. He was probably poisoned by Domitian. Vespasian is the Father, Titus the Son and Domitian was the Holy Spirit. John the Baptist is not Domitian. See KK above. The author(s) of Mark had, for example, "Elijah", "Lamb of God" and a savior/god cre...

Nice Post, KK! . a story which I like Mark 1:14-15 Now after John was arrested , Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand ...“ A simple understanding of Mark 1:14 could be that the arresting of John was a sign for J...

* What do you mean by "Titus orders the completion of Josephus as a 'demi-god' in his Court"? Do you mean the completion of Josephus's Histories with Titus portrayed as a godhead as you say in the next sentence? (Those two sentences could be seen as two separate statements). 1. Probably a...

Yes! Genius. Basic Mark - with the distribution of the Mark's portion of the "Empty Tomb" included (Note 1 below) - was written no earlier than the death of Verginius Rufus 2 ("...Who?!??") and MOST probably toward around 110. Bernard Muller is correct on his site that the Empty ...