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by yakovzutolmai
Tue Sep 21, 2021 3:51 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Witulski's view about Revelation
Replies: 31
Views: 6983

Re: Christos Replaces Logos

The Saviour-Revealer was Melchizedek (for Alexandrian Jews), abstracted as "Logos" for far-flung communities purchasing Egyptian books (sermons, hymns, etc.); even in Egypt, Melchizedekianism (relic military cult; Intercessor for Jewish warriors, c.250 BC = Saviour) was on the wane 100 BC...
by yakovzutolmai
Tue Sep 21, 2021 3:42 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Witulski's view about Revelation
Replies: 31
Views: 6983

Re: Christos Replaces Logos

this means that the theology of redemption by sacrifical death of the Son ...is ... Jewish in essence, but born in reaction to a previous theology of the salvific Revealer. The Christos (viz. Jesus) replaced the Logos (viz. Melchizedek) Doctrine as a hot trend in Diaspora synagogues c.55-75 AD, yes...
by yakovzutolmai
Tue Sep 21, 2021 3:21 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agabus And Kandake (From Acts) As Adiabene Royalty Per Eisenmann
Replies: 5
Views: 1619

Re: Agabus And Kandake (From Acts) As Adiabene Royalty Per Eisenmann

In Eisenmann's view, Agabus symbolizes the royal house of ... I had to chuckle a bit when I read your opening line here. Just a few days earlier I was tempted to respond to one of your previous posts with something along the lines of --- 'like Eisenman on acid' Eisenmann's principal flaw is his Zio...
by yakovzutolmai
Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:47 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Witulski's view about Revelation
Replies: 31
Views: 6983

Re: Witulski's view about Revelation

If the dating of the text (around 130 CE) would be accepted, this would mean that under the Emperor Hadrian we still had groups of followers of Jesus who believed in a mythical Jesus without still a Gospel connected to him. Which means that the 130 CE is the terminus post-quem for the writing of a ...
by yakovzutolmai
Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:28 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Gospel "according to" ___
Replies: 45
Views: 6999

Re: Gospel "according to" ___

So I would rather like to say (like the Dutch philologist SA Naber) that all Pauline letters ‘ortas esse in Cerdonis vel Marcionitarum scholis’, that means: they had been written in Marcionite/Kerdo’s school and firstly collected by ‘schoolmaster’ Marcion. In commenting on Eph. 5:19, Dr. (Woolsey) ...
by yakovzutolmai
Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:02 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: John Hyrcanus, not John the Baptist, in Luke 16:16
Replies: 12
Views: 2248

Re: John Hyrcanus, not John the Baptist, in Luke 16:16

yakovzutolmai, since you think that the pauline epistles are invented all after the 70 (a conclusion I am intrigued about), how do you harmonize their post-70 invention with their silence about the Gospel Jesus ? Basically, I am addressing the same question I had raised here , gaining still no answ...
by yakovzutolmai
Mon Sep 20, 2021 2:29 pm
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Zahhak the Snake Shoulder; Baal/Yam, Zeus/Cronus, Herod's Massacre of the Innocents
Replies: 1
Views: 2172

Re: Zahhak the Snake Shoulder; Baal/Yam, Zeus/Cronus, Herod's Massacre of the Innocents

Just learning the "Kurd" is blacksmith in ancient Iranic languages. Corduene is "land of the smith" AKA Kaveh the Blacksmith. This is the inspiration for Noah. If the Jews think Kurds are descended from Jinn in a story that parallels the Enochian tale of the Watchers, and if we p...
by yakovzutolmai
Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:44 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: John Hyrcanus, not John the Baptist, in Luke 16:16
Replies: 12
Views: 2248

Re: John Hyrcanus, not John the Baptist, in Luke 16:16

the sons of Judas of Gamala. Are you sure that Judas of Gamala existed ? A case has been made for Judas being a pure Flavian invention. This study shows that we can no longer assume that this Judas presented by Josephus is an historical figure who engaged in some activity in 6 CE. My figures of int...
by yakovzutolmai
Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:56 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Stephan Hoebeeck on the philosophical origins of Christianity
Replies: 20
Views: 3420

Re: Stephan Hoebeeck claims

I'm curious what he says about Sethians, since they had a corpus of literature also (perhaps rivalling the Hermetica?) and they obviously pre-date Xtianity. Many more Jews turned Gnostic (in a Sethian Spring, c.120 AD?) rather than Xtian, but those lines arent firm either. After 115 AD, Gnosticism ...
by yakovzutolmai
Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:19 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: John Hyrcanus, not John the Baptist, in Luke 16:16
Replies: 12
Views: 2248

Re: John Hyrcanus, not John the Baptist, in Luke 16:16

“The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John . Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it. John Hyrcanus is meant here, proving that Doudna's view of a confusion between the Baptist and Hyrcanus is probably correct. If w...