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Melito may be relevant here O frightful murder! O unheard of injustice! The Lord is disfigured and he is not deemed worthy of a cloak for his naked body, so that he might not be seen exposed. For this reason the stars turned and fled, and the day grew quite dark, in order to hide the naked person h...

In an episode of "Mythicist Milawaukee" last year, Robert M. Price and Christopher Hansen were guests. It's actually a very good discussion. https://youtu.be/PSJ64C7dk0k Along the way, in an exchange about modern examples of mythologized historical figures, Price brought up Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

What do you think the reason is for his omission of the statement in Armenian Irenaeus about being crucified under Claudius? No firm conclusion, but Jesus being crucified under Claudius is simply impossible to square away with the canonical chronology; thus, despite the window it may afford into th...

a/ I'm not sure it makes a difference. Horrible people deserve to be held accountable for being horrible people. b/ One's academic career is linked inexorably with citations, because how much they are cited determines their career's impact, as well as *how* they are cited. c/ Maybe "good" citation ...

[ And Richard Pervo's research was obtained while expending himself on child exploitation. And I don't think it is doubtful. And the only undesirable affects I can see is that people would want to distance themselves from that researcher who was a pedophile... in which case I'm all for that. Pervo ...

Because pedophiles should not be cited without noting who they are. Otherwise their legacy is protected and people don't learn about it. This would be like citing Mengele without noting his involvement in the Holocaust. But also, I'm primarily writing a history of scholarship on mythicism. People a...

See Alessandro Galimberti "The pseudo-Hadrianic Epistle in the Historia Augusta and Hadrian's religious policy" in Hadrian and the Christians , Ed. Marco Rizzi [2010], pp.101-120, esp.116. Galimberti [2010], p.120 concludes this problematic epistle is a pastiche of otherwise accurate information on...

Massey (1907) notes: “In the transition from the old Egyptian religion to the new cult of Christianity there was no factor of profounder importance than the worship of Serapis. As the Emperor Hadrian relates, in his well-known letter to Servianus, ‘those who worship Serapis are likewise Christians;...

I think we would have to assume that the text form of Luke known to Eusebius did not contain any appearances of Jesus at the tomb, but did contain at least some version of the Road to Emmaus story. To put that another way, I don't think there's any evidence that the text form of Luke known to Euseb...

This “strange” behavior of LC may be also theoretically explained by the fact the Clement may have been more prone to drawing only from his basic vocabulary when writing private letters. We need a number of further Clement’s letters to test the likelihood of this possibility. Even if this could exp...