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SA: "Even Epiphanius calls Clement an Athenian I think."

Yes, Epiphanius Scholasticus, who lived later than another Epiphanius, author of Panarion.

Wondering about influences from various sources is fair, especially if the possibility of some amount of original creativity is also in the mix, at least potentially. Calling people one disagrees with flies may be less than helpful. Concerning making comparisons, maybe of interest to some here is an...

Gmirkin 2006 claimed Genesis drew on Babylonian texts transmitted in Greek by Berossus.
Gmirkin later version--no, check that, Genesis drew on Greek not Babylonian sources, from Greek Plato.
Hard job for a parrot to switch with?

One potentially good thing, so far, is that the title word, Origins, is plural. Defining Judaism (ioudaismos, etc.) itself has a long history. The Jewish-Mother-born later Carmelite monk Rufeisen court case in Israel, iirc, basically decided that a Jew is a person the majority of Jews consider to be...

Genesis 1-11 has long been regarded as providing a cosmogony, a theology, and an anthropology, prior to national stories. (No mere prequel.) There are parallels from Mesopotamia, to which Israel is closer than Greece is. Good that rgprice begins to see worth in comments by Andrew. Gmirkin's 2006 boo...

Pete, you quoted Brent Nongbri. I will too, from New Testament Studies, specifically from Palaeography, Precision and Publicity: Further Thoughts on P.Ryl.iii.457 (P52) Brent Nongbri Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2020, pp. 471-499 In this article Nongbri, after detaile...

Also, Leviticus is not one of my favorite books. But it's worth noting that all of William Whitt's Torah translations and commentaries are free. For example, from academia.edu: Genesis: A new translation with commentary Highland Park, IL: The Middle Coast Press, 2019 This translation of the book of ...

Neither the Bible nor archaeology gives a full, reliable account of history. Nor Gmirkin changing versions filtered by his follower. Despite fundamentalist totalizing urgings.

I don't know her or what she will say. “Breathing out violence:” Fake News and other dangerous speech in Ancient Israel November 14 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Emerging Scholars Lecture with Emily Branton, department of religious studies. “Breathing out violence:” Fake News and other dangerous speech in Anc...

People may have worshiped Zamolxis.
CC iv.34.
That does not demonstrate Celsus was mythicist.