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It's a bit hard, you know. One has to read it to find out where you were going. When you have read enough to know you aren't interested, then you can ignore it. It's really not that difficult... You published the stuff here. Live with the consequences. Right, you come into threads to say that the t...

It's a bit hard, you know. One has to read it to find out where you were going. When you have read enough to know you aren't interested, then you can ignore it. It's really not that difficult... You published the stuff here. Live with the consequences. So, even though you closed quotes which normal...

I don't know why you feel you can assume it is of interest that someone in the 1940s made such an assertion or what relevance it would have to anyone here. If you aren't interested in the thread, then just ignore it! Simples! :D It's a bit hard, you know. One has to read it to find out where you we...

Well, it's also in Thomas 71 in a much more primitive form ("I will destroy this house and nobody will be able to rebuild it"), so that's a triple independent attestation. A guy was hiking in the hills with a hiking companion, when the companion, who'd gone off to have a piss, got bitten ...

I don't know why you are rehearsing ideas from a christian children's writer of the 1940s, perhaps other than he inspired a lot of nonsense in the minds of Britain's young and so remained in the imagination for a few generations. I don't know why you feel you can assume it is of interest that someon...

If you remember the crudful thread about the Dura Europos fragment, there is a nomen sacrum in that text ΣΤΑ which Kraeling argues was a verbal nomen sacrum, based on the existence of different verbal forms of σταυροω from Codex Bezae. He says on page 9 of his monograph: But it should be noted that ...

The presence of Jesus in Jewish literature--principally in the Babylonian Talmud under the name Yeshu ha-Notzri --is frequently mentioned in efforts to sustain the notion of the historicity of Jesus. It's a rather strange idea considering there are no references to Jesus in the Jerusalem Talmud, whe...

the historocity of Jesus I can appreciate that it's a typo, but I just love the sound of "historocity". I think it might have a use to describe a specific situation we have to deal with. I see it as a portmanteau word made up from historical and atrocity and meaning those historical notio...

How do you get knowledge of the world and how do you test that knowledge? Through prayer, meditation, listening, reading, analyzing. I don't see how any of these responds to my question. Analysis is something one does in one's head. Reading and listening are merely means of getting information, not...

Eric,

How do you get knowledge of the world and how do you test that knowledge?