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From an old post. Paul? As much a literary creation as is the gospel figure of Jesus. Paul as Jesus Reboot or Jesus as Paul Reboot? Although Richard Pervo has not gone that far (Thomas Brodie has opted for a literary Paul...) Pervo's chart, below, certainly raises many question..... The Mystery of ...

Methinks.... Your more likely to have a heart attack.... 🙄 That's ok, Jesus could heal them. w.r.t. the Josephus stuff, I'm afraid I know hardly anything about Josephus, let alone all the textual differences between the different versions, so I really couldn't speak to any of that. Ah, I slipped up...

From an old post. Paul? As much a literary creation as is the gospel figure of Jesus. Paul as Jesus Reboot or Jesus as Paul Reboot? Although Richard Pervo has not gone that far (Thomas Brodie has opted for a literary Paul...) Pervo's chart, below, certainly raises many question..... The Mystery of A...

can I just say I don't agree with this rolling out the red carpet for Paul to claim the whole thing, gospels the whole lot it's all him i mean, is Paul paying you to write this? For me... I side with Thomas Brodie. Paul is a literary construct. Did not the other Mr Price refer to Paul as the '"...

So we can imagine him interpreting this sentence just as literally---"came down" doesn't mean going from north to south, or from uptown to downtown. I literally means "came down". He just descended from the sky and sauntered into the local Synagogue to tell them what's what. [/b...

was this gospel the first to name the 'wonder-worker- of the Slavonic Josephus story ? Is Ev dependent on Josephus? Lk, probably, but I'd need more evidence that the Ev cribs from Josephus. Take a look at the opening line of the Ev: in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius in ...

Reading Marcion's, 'Jesus came down to Capernaum', as a literal, flesh and blood journey, sounds strange to the ear Tertullian glosses this expression more as a Star Trek-style beaming down: he "came down to the Galilean city of Capernaum," of course meaning from the heaven of the Creator...

I'm throwing an idea out there in cyber space... If the gospel in the hand of Marcion is, re Klinghardt, the oldest gospel - was this gospel the first to name the 'wonder-worker- of the Slavonic Josephus story ? If so, Klinghardt would be correct to label the gospel in the hands of Marcion as the ol...

Of course Luke derived from *Ev the idea of a spiritual entity descending on the earth in 3:2: in the 15° year of Tiberius [...] the word of God descended on John son of Zechariah in the wilderness The "word of God" is the Logos . The Logos idea comes from Philo.....Logos, mind, ideas - c...

Reading Marcion's, 'Jesus came down to Capernaum', as a literal, flesh and blood journey, sounds strange to the ear - i.e. we use that sort of expression often (i.e. my sister came down to London - from up north somewhere or another). Since Marcion's gospel found no use for birth narratives - perha...