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Its difficult to parse “My God, my God, why did you abandon me?” too closely, since its part of a literary reference to Psalm 22, which is about how the sufferer will cause everyone in the world to worship God. So clearly that is the goal of the writer is to make a reference to this concept.

Here is a somewhat simple example: Mark 1: 29 As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30 Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. 31 He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then th...

Very intersting.

I'm still constantly blow away by the depth of the argumentation over writings . Every argument about the nature of Jesus that is known to exist is purely about parsing the details of various writings, often either by assuming the complete truth of a given writing or the complete falsehood of a give...

To me, it looks like 2 Cor 3 is using Jeremiah here. I'm not fully convinced. But assuming Paul was influenced by Jeremiah here, what does this imply? How was Pauling using Jeremiah? Is Paul's new covenant supposed to be what is described in Jeremiah? Doesn't seem to align. Does this indicate that ...

I found this quite interesting, but not sure what to make of it: Jeremiah 31:27 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. 28 And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, t...

one argument for a proto john is if john were actually using a source for some of it's material and adding a narrative John reminds me of the way a few gnostic texts do this So this would be the first person Jesus stuff of an older revelation or treatise. maybe the prologue John seems quite suited ...

It only make sense that v14 is referring to what just happened in v12-13. The way this is traditionally read, v14 comes out of nowhere and is unexplained until Mark 6. This is accepted because Mark is read after Matthew, but this makes no sense on Markan priority, where anyone reading this would ha...

Getting back to the OP. Once we accept that it was John who was driven into the wilderness and "delivered to Satan", we can then see that in this story both John and Jesus are "delivered to Satan". The story opens with the delivering of John to Satan and closes with the with deli...

Thanks for the info thus far. I figured someone would call me out for not mentioning Arthur Drew's The Christ Myth :p Anyway, what I've gleaned is: Catholic priest Lorenzo Valla published a treaties exposing the Donation of Constantine as a forgery in 1440. Exposure of this forgery contributed signi...