Re: Carrier v. Litwa: What Did the “Ascension of Isaiah” Originally Say?
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2022 10:24 am
- My idiosyncratic translation of 10.29–31 which appears to be—garbled in the Latin and Slavonic?
“What could Jesus have done to cause himself to be hated and killed if he remained unrecognized in the lower heaven?”
Enter the ontological domain of demonic control, the realm of their domain, without providing the ‘signum’–passport, as expressly given in L2 Asc. Is.
- He remained unrecognized….
James Barlow says: 2020-06-11. Vridar comment.
The original “good news” was “the Beloved will come from heaven to free the souls of the dead and take them to heaven. Believe it now or believe it later. The end.” (Asc. Is. L2)James Barlow says: 2020-06-11. Vridar comment.
Earl Doherty without doubt was the major contributor to the Jesus myth perspective from the 1990s through to the early 2000s. I highly respected his grasp of both the big picture and the detail, his clear-headed engagement with the scholarship, and his alertness to valid logical reasoning. His discussion of the Ascension of Isaiah in The Jesus Puzzle and again and in greater depth in Jesus Neither God Nor Man have been mainstays in my own attempts to learn more about that ancient text.
James Barlow has delved into the Asc. Isa. in even more detail since and finds even more support for Doherty’s view that it contains evidence of a heavenly crucifixion of Jesus and that its passage of an earthly sojourn of Jesus in one manuscript is a later addition.
Godfrey, Neil (30 May 2020). "Ascension of Isaiah: Questioning Three of Earl Doherty's Arguments". Vridar.