Was Basilides called so because he introduced the titulus crucis?
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2022 1:40 am
The following points may support the theory:
- "Basilides" shares the same root of "Basileus": king;
- Basilides denied that the man on the cross was really Jesus;
- Basilides was an anti-demiurgist, so his Jesus was less of all the "king of the Jews";
- Mark is, among all the gospels, the gospel more used by anti-demiurgist separationists, and Basilides was one;
- Marcion's Evangelion didn't have the titulus crucis. Mark introduced it first.