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Secret Alias wrote:Strong's is a bad source. Use better sources.

Firstly MrMacSon used Strong and that was why I was using it.
Secondly what internet source would you suggest as better?

When talking about comparing the ideas in Paul’s letters and the Ascension of Isaiah are any assumptions being made about dates? I think I read that Peter Kirby believes that Paul wrote his letters over a long period continuing to a few years after 70 CE. Wasn’t the Ascension of Isaiah written by Ch...

I think your approach concedes too much and dismisses the idea that some periscope may have traditions that go back to the historical Jesus. Therefore sometimes it is likely that the periscope do contain the sayings of Jesus. The settings for these sayings are more problematic and might be unlikely ...

@ MrMacSon You quoted Strong’s concordance on brother but not the section that accepted that in 1 Cor 9:5 and Gal 1:19 adelphos should be translated as brothers and brother in the accepted sense of biological brother. 1 Cor 9:5 has οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τοῦ κυρίου (the brothers of-the Lord) and Gal 1:19 has Ἰά...

Thank you maryhelena I think I have finally understood. You are not interested in the details of any possible theories to producing likely solutions to the origins of Christianity. You are only interested in the board ideas of possible theories. I will try not to expect you to provide reasoned argu...

By deciding that ... Paul believed Jesus to be a celestial figure in a realm where one could be “ born of a woman, born under the Law ,” “ of the seed of David according to the flesh ,” crucified, buried, and everything else that fits more naturally in the mundane terrestrial realm, Carrier has mad...

I have been reading some of the reviews written by James F McGrath, which got me thinking about what conclusions can be drawn from the theology of a gospel writer. I believe that Matthew saw Jesus as a second Moses and therefore created the Sermon of the Mount to reflect this. (It is likely Matthew ...

Thank you maryhelena I think I have finally understood. You are not interested in the details of any possible theories to producing likely solutions to the origins of Christianity. You are only interested in the board ideas of possible theories. I will try not to expect you to provide reasoned argum...

I have looked again at Black’s An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts and he finds parallels with Old Testament texts such as Ps 37:11 and Is 61:1 (Mt 5:3-4), Is 61:3 (Mt 5:6, 12).

Black wrote, “The evidence together does point to the importance of Isa lxi as the inspiration of the Beatitudes.”

The synoptic problem is likely never to be resolved. People will always want to re-examine it and make out cases for other likely alternatives or alternatives that have been suggested before and not generally accepted. Hopefully Matthias Klinghardt in his book - The oldest gospel, and the emergence ...