Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Jax wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 8:01 am Why do you assign Ur-Mark to Alexandria?

Because that's where the Coptic tradition places it. After all, Mark supposedly founded the Alexandrian church.

Probably deacons or teachers first. The Apostle (singular) would compose the basis of the Evangelium (in fact, I'm beginning to suspect that the original Good News was something like an Epistle), but this would serve as a source. If we're just limiting ourselves to who wrote/compiled our canon, then...

Guy, was this necessary? Okay, then try this... ... everything you have posted is self aggrandizing bs. Paul was not a first century figure, so everything you have argued thus far is rendered meaningless and irrelevant, so any link to Vespessian, Titus, or Musianus is itself superfluous. I see no re...

I would love to understand the highlighted better. Could you please elaborate? Thanks Sure. Assuming that Paul, Marcion, Aquila and Peregrinus are just pseudonyms for the same figure, would place his origins closer to the north of Turkey, than the south. The reason Tarsus was chosen may be due to a...

You assume they held in their earliest moments the same properties we associate with them in later eras, certainly the 4th century onward, but possibly earlier in the 3rd and some argue the 2nd centuries (evidence is very dicey and for much earlier than the end of the 2nd and start of the 3rd centu...

I'm of the opinion that all of the Gospels were stage type performances. I can't accept this. The original point of the Gospel, Evangelium, was as a new Torah, and was not be performed, but used as a means of study and revelation. Now plays may have been inspired by the Evangelium (similar to Ezeki...

Yeah, prolly. It is consistent, however, and it covers the Data and doesn't appeal to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". That's a start. CW PS: Our Poster Stephan (Secret Alias) has a study of the "Mutilated Finger". It maybe consistent with itself, but not with external evidence. Ev...

I would love to understand the highlighted better. Could you please elaborate? Thanks Sure. Assuming that Paul, Marcion, Aquila and Peregrinus are just pseudonyms for the same figure, would place his origins closer to the north of Turkey, than the south. The reason Tarsus was chosen may be due to a...

Charles Wilson, while being completely wrong in his assessment as to why Paul was a eunuch, is correct in at least thinking that he was-- 2 Corinthians 12:1-10: I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Chr...

... "Since the Protocols are an obvious forgery... I'm curious but what actually is the evidence that proves that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a forgery? And I'm not talking about what others think of it. I mean internal discrepancies, or external circumstances regarding its publishi...