Dear Giusepe, thank you for looking at my work.
Regarding Gmirkin, I have much respect for his work on the formation of some OT material, but I am not aware of anything he might have said about Zealots. Any reference?
To MrMacSon I should say that according to my finds some Early Christians must have been persecuted because of their involvement in the long lasting revolts against the Roman authorities. There was no Pax Romana in the Middle East from the first year the Romans arrived there up to the third and last Messianic revolution in the second century CE. Christianity did come out of Galilee, the epicenter of many revolts. Pontius Pilate invaded Galilee with his army for a reason. To examine the emergence of any religious or other movement in history, but outside historical context, simply is nonsense. The fact is that the vast majority of Early Christianity experts have not been through the available primary sources on the history of the region where Christianity emerged. The analysis of the primary sources is a very time consuming process which requires massive training, many sacrifices. Only a very small minority of scholars find the time and the power to embark in serious research. Most scholars simply re-arrange the works of other contemporary to them historians in order to be liked by them and receive acceptance and promotion. An entire educational system, generation after generation, is training most historians to repeat and accept the works of their professors, without themselves investigating and juxtaposing the primary sources. We assume that earlier professors did do the work, but the bitter truth is that in many topics they did not. We learn history mainly from secondary rather than primary sources, from people who became historians not in order to help mankind move forward but in order to help themselves.
Coming back to Gmirkin, who did make a tremendous discovery through his analysis of the primary sources, where is his recognition from the academic establishment? How many professors do understand how important Gmirkin is? The last time I examined what he did was back in 2015.
Regarding Gmirkin, I have much respect for his work on the formation of some OT material, but I am not aware of anything he might have said about Zealots. Any reference?
To MrMacSon I should say that according to my finds some Early Christians must have been persecuted because of their involvement in the long lasting revolts against the Roman authorities. There was no Pax Romana in the Middle East from the first year the Romans arrived there up to the third and last Messianic revolution in the second century CE. Christianity did come out of Galilee, the epicenter of many revolts. Pontius Pilate invaded Galilee with his army for a reason. To examine the emergence of any religious or other movement in history, but outside historical context, simply is nonsense. The fact is that the vast majority of Early Christianity experts have not been through the available primary sources on the history of the region where Christianity emerged. The analysis of the primary sources is a very time consuming process which requires massive training, many sacrifices. Only a very small minority of scholars find the time and the power to embark in serious research. Most scholars simply re-arrange the works of other contemporary to them historians in order to be liked by them and receive acceptance and promotion. An entire educational system, generation after generation, is training most historians to repeat and accept the works of their professors, without themselves investigating and juxtaposing the primary sources. We assume that earlier professors did do the work, but the bitter truth is that in many topics they did not. We learn history mainly from secondary rather than primary sources, from people who became historians not in order to help mankind move forward but in order to help themselves.
Coming back to Gmirkin, who did make a tremendous discovery through his analysis of the primary sources, where is his recognition from the academic establishment? How many professors do understand how important Gmirkin is? The last time I examined what he did was back in 2015.
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