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Coexisting Gospel Editions Corollary. Expecting to be harried by opposing religious, governmental and commercial hierarchies, the Gospel was written circumspectly in relation to certain identities being known in certitude to the general public, to avoid christian initiates being charged with bringi...

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James was in the desert writing the Protevangelium at the time: 'Now I, James wrote this history in Jerusalem when tumult arose on the death of Herod' — circa A.D. 44.

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Up to his death in April, A.D. 70¹ and continuing after, the Bishop of Jerusalem didn't have his full name certified in the gospel, and such is the opacity of the fellowship by not clearly identifying him, James, 'the brother of the Lord' is not known today as James son of Zebedee. If so, what is y...

In Galatians, Paul chronicles the occasions and relates the circumstances that he consulted with Peter the chief apostle, and James the bishop, and John the theologian. Paul names all three of Jesus' archbishops in a clandestine fashion. The passage is not worded in the well-known gospel structure o...

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 14.487: ‹This destruction befell the city of Jerusalem when Marcus Agrippa and Caninius Gallus were consuls of Rome on the hundred eighty and fifth Olympiad, on the third month, on the solemnity of the fast as if a periodical revolution of calamities had returned s...

War of Varus In light of the following tabulations, the year of the War of Varus was in 1 CE, its episode shadowing the death of Herod the Great in March of that year. Gospel accounts record that Jesus Christ was born at the time of a taxation at Bethlehem, while Herod son of Antipater¹ was alive, a...

Josephus with those of his generation, were apparently acquainted with the need to socially distance, in order to avoid an inundation of sickness from the pestilences that circulated among the population. The Roman siege of Jerusalem at the time of the 70 CE Passover feast, caught up such a large p...

This has nothing to do with early Christian texts. It belongs on some other Board Josephus wrote early Christian texts. He wrote history too, somewhat relevant to the Christians of his generation. You could dispute that but you are outmatched by manuscriptal evidence. Instead you would have my comm...

Josephus with those of his generation, were apparently acquainted with the need to socially distance, in order to avoid an inundation of sickness from the pestilences that circulated among the population. The Roman siege of Jerusalem at the time of the 70 CE Passover feast, caught up such a large po...

Transition and Transmission. Here are the central Christian tenets shown with the predicates in Christian holy books as represented by the motifs transition and transmission. Transition. Christian scriptures predicate that we live amid a state of transition of the soul, from spiritual to material to...