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This finding gives a different reconstruction of the Origins, one where Jesus ben Sapphat was originally an enemy of John of Gischala and only later he received the his "baptism", i.e. when Jesus ben Sapphat abandoned the Galilee and worked under the high command of John of Gischala during...

I see that the following passage in *Ev: 18 And when John the Baptist heard about all these things, he was scandalized. 19 And John calling unto him a certain two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that cometh? or look we for another? (*Ev 7:18-19) ...is based on Vita 25 of Jos...

he would be reluctant to remove material from his corrected Luke which was paralleled in Matthew and/or Mark. I can understand a Marcion interested to follow Mark (being Mark a gentilizing gospel, afterall, in virtue of the principle similis cum similibus ), but I can't understand how Marcion could...

Ken, one of the reasons Secret Mark can persuade about its authenticity is that it gives a detailed explanation about what Jesus went to do in Jericho (an explanation that is absent in Mark). Secret Mark clearly solves a problem in canonical Mark which troubles modern readers more than it apparentl...

1 Timothy 3-4, even if a Catholic epistle, is still reluctant to accept the genealogies found in the incipit of Matthew and Canonical Luke. 3 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer 4 or to devote...

The connection of Paul with "the baptism of John", even if in a convoluted way ( that John is made a gentilizer in virtue of being the teacher of the gentilizer called Apollos), is very much suspected, docet Vinzent in Christ's Torah . Because also Jesus has been connected artificially (an...

This is a thought on the "Gospel priority":

It cannot be a coincidence that the Markan priority has been abandoned especially by scholars and/or amateurs who have seen the prominent role of Marcionites in the fabrication of the "pauline" epistles.

Trobisch is an example.

Of course Luke derived from *Ev the idea of a spiritual entity descending on the earth in 3:2:


The "word of God" is the Logos.

Ken, one of the reasons Secret Mark can persuade about its authenticity is that it gives a detailed explanation about what Jesus went to do in Jericho (an explanation that is absent in Mark).

I think that " doubtless " in the Jesus's answer is a strong clue pointing to an explanation found inside the story itself of the gospel of Luke, not assumed a priori external to that gospel (i.e. possibly in Mark). " Doubtless " in Jesus's answer explains also why *Ev were to c...