Christian Texts and History • Re: The Empty Room
The mystery is revealed further on in the "story".And they said unto him: We were greatly vexed because thou didst beg the body of Jesus and wrappedst it in a clean linen cloth and didst lay him in a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is There Evidence that Irenaeus Read Celsus?
I'm tired.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Wed Nov 13, 2024 6:16 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Simon Peter is the successor to...
Sure, but if I propose that "Rock" is a title and that Peter took the place of Cephas as the leader of the church after Cephas' death, I think we would have the same evidence we do now. We only have...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What was a beloved disciple?
I know this is a common opinion, but I have my doubts about it. Do we have manuscript evidence for a 20 chapter John circulating without chapter 21? Perhaps I should clarify what I mean. I think there...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Kind of Looks Like A Replacement for "The...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRQ7ecvU56kJW:He went in where the youth was and stretched forth his hand and raised him up. The youth, looking upon him, loved him and began to beg him to be with him....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • What COULD have persuaded me that Jesus existed
PREMISE:Ignore please the "brother(s) of the Lord" in Pseudo-Paul or the false Testimonia in Josephus. The guy who says to be historicist in virtue of that so-called "evidence" is probably a liar or...
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Christian Texts and History • When you are disappointed not to hear what you...
The Carrier's answer to my question (as josenrael). Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Wed Nov 13, 2024 10:44 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What COULD have persuaded me that Jesus...
Try to read again the same Gmirkin's words quoted above:And to clarify, the two witnesses of ca. 70 CE were apparently Jewish-Christian prophetic figures perhaps among the besieged in Jerusalem. It...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: W. E Barnes, The Testimony of Josephus to...
In the OP a link was provided to a book by W.E.Barnes. In my above post I used this quote.Fourthly, the place in which the supposed interpolation is set is unlikely to have been chosen by a Christian,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
It's how it works when God wants to punish "bad" Jews, and kings that engaged in things like niece marriage, polygamy and divorce were "bad" Jews to the DSS sect, like the Hellnizers in 2 Mac....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Does Suetonius refer to someone generally...
Chrestus is a pun on Christus being the "good one": Marcionism is meant.Do you think Suetonius recognized a pun here? he or his source, yes. I assume, with Carrier, that Suetonius and Tacitus are...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Problem with historicism
[H]istoricity is a bankrupt paradigm: they never have a sound or valid argument for it. Instead, they kneejerk oppose it emotionally, doing no work to even understand the peer reviewed studies...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is Clement "Appropriating Marcosian...
Chapter 11, the section that has all or some "Marcosian gnosis" allegedly begins with the statement: Just as in astronomy we have Abraham as an example (ὑπόδειγμα), so also in arithmetic we have the...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Isaac M. Wise on Jesus
Isaac M. Wise wrote History of the Hebrews' second commonwealth:with special reference to its literature, culture, and the origin of Rabbinism and Christianity Isaac Mayer Wise1880English Book 3...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: How does John the Baptist and baptism fit...
I agree, spin, that Christian baptism is an initiation ritual. As I already said above:"...there is some variety in baptism initiation within Christianity...."And, yes, Judaism has other means of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: New research finds 33 historical...
It is of course not sufficient to merely offer an account of why Jesus would be depicted as living in 30s CE if he did not exist. This would amount to a “just-so-story” about how the evidence fits a...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • The Roman Imperial Cult
https://www.worldhistory.org/Roman_Imperial_Cult/In the 1st century BCE, several Germanic tribes invaded Gaul and northern Italy; the king of Pontus, Mithridates VI (r. 120-63 BCE), conquered the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Robert Spencer's Muhammad Agnosticism against...
What I admire in Robert Spencer is the justification of the his Muhammad Agnosticism on the mere fact that a text as the following (known as Doctrina Jacobi, vol 16, 209) leaves forever in doubt both...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: The Roman Imperial Cult
Cybele Phrygian: Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya "Kubileya/Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; Lydian Kuvava; Greek: Κυβέλη Kybele, Κυβήβη Kybebe, Κύβελις Kybelis Cybele was/is an Anatolian mother...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Liber, Bacchus and Dionysus
Dionysus, Bacchus and Liber [an olde Roman god of viticulture and wine, male fertility and freedom] became virtually interchangeable from the late Republican era (133 BCE and onward), and their...
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