Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

It is interesting here . Most modern scholarship actual shuts up about the historicity of Jesus. For example, I had to deal with a couple of archaeologists who worked an important site in Syria a while back and they both held the view that you couldn't trust anything that came from biblical scholar...

...I find Christ-mythers to be amusing .... .... Sometimes when I meant to touch him [Jesus], I met with a material and solid body; but at other times when I felt him, his substance was immaterial and incorporeal, as if it did not exist at all ... And I often wished, as I walked with him, to see hi...

Well Nick, I want to make clear that there is very little about early Christianity that I am certain about anything other than the general worthlessness of modern Christians. Faith is based on habit and an inherited prejudice. When it manifests itself in serious thinkers it should be questioned if ...

Nick Peters Winning a debate with Pete is like winning a gold medal in a race with octogenarians. This Pete #151 for the new arrivals #151 is the person who posts under the over-thought-out and under-whelming name of Leucius Charinus, also known as mountainman and various others across the virtuali...

(5) The Pseudo-Clementine literature - the forgery mill of the 4th century is astonishing !!! (6) The forgery mill of the 9th century ("Pseudo-Isidore") were still pumping out manuscripts of Pre-Nicene identities. (7) The ACTUAL number of forged manuscripts -- known and identified as forg...

Reread the first sentence of my response. Your statement was for when we do not have a physical manuscript. I am not talking about those cases. Where we do have a manuscript, one must still use a better methodology than Carbon 14 dating. You would be off by I'd say most if not all ancient documents...

Hi Nick, The methodology of determining the authorship of an ancient document is to examine text and context. Partially, though this is a rather simplistic way of stating things. Greco-Roman biographies were often of mythological characters. You can finds hundreds of Greco-Roman biographies of myth...

Where we do not have a physical manuscript the methodology of chronology must rely on the application of a system of both integrity and chronology to all the available evidence (which includes the literary sources but is not restricted to them) which support the existence of the ancient document. W...

Hi Nick, Wikipedia gives us this information about Tacitus: Details about his personal life are scarce. What little is known comes from scattered hints throughout his work, the letters of his friend and admirer Pliny the Younger, and an inscription found at Mylasa in Caria. [/i][/b] I don't accept ...

My thanks to the person who linked to my work at Deeper Waters. Perhaps our mythicist here who made this claim could answer some questions about it. The insurmountable problem with this logic is that we have no reason or evidence "given" that the anonymous, undated and unprovenanced synopt...