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.. An 'elaborate theoretical background' is just not necessary. True. One can make the decision for ahistoricity in other ways than the one Carrier is 'so stuck on'. " so stuck on "? or is it just that Carrier has chosen a theme and is sticking to it? for now? ie. he doesn't want too many...

The Jerusalem above - Pauline theology/philosophy - requires a Jerusalem below. Not some imaginary figure of the ''kingdom of God preaching movement'' but flesh and blood historical figures whose lives motivated the gospel writers to write their story. After the decimation of Jerusalem from 70 AD/C...

. Clement of Rome d.99 Starting in the 3rd and 4th century,[2] tradition has identified him as the Clement that Paul mentioned in Philippians 4:3, a fellow laborer in Christ. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_I#Life Clement is known for an epistle to the church in Corinth - 1 Clement - (c....

Let H = the hypothesis be "that MrMacSon is Carrier" Let P(H) - the prior probability (before said new evidence) - be 0.05 Let E be the supposed new evidence that MacSon is Carrier: let P(E) be 0.5 let P(E|H) - the probability of observing E given H - be 0.75 P(H|E) - the probability that ...

. Let's try to use terminology that is defined & seems to be applicable to what we might want to do with information or data around Jesus. This from wikipedia seems applicable - . Introduction to Bayes' rule Formal Bayesian inference derives the posterior probability as a consequence of two ant...

Let's try to break this down. Firstly, do you agree with the following way of approximating a probability using a reference class?: P(A|B) = (elements that matches A and B) / (Elements that matches B) ( if not, what is the correct way ? ) I wondered if I needed to read Proving History , OHJ , and r...

http://kapyong.5gbfree.com/Carrier/Elements.html Element 1. The earliest form of Christianity definitely known to us originated as a Jewish sect in the region of Syria-Palestine. Element 1 is the explanation of the origins of Christianity. What is the earliest form of Christianity definitely known ...

I may get this totally wrong and if so I apologize but I'm going to try and crudely express what I think is a key issue without the complexities of Bayes theorem. Let A be the probability that there was an historical Jesus. Let B be the probability that Jesus was believed to have lived and died upo...

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Aposynogogos is discussed here, too -

Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches (2002) by Anthony J. Blasi, Paul-André Turcotte, Jean Duhaime; Rowman Altamira: 802 pages.

Today I studied the 2015 (37(5) p. 56) Journal for the Study of the New Testament. From the book review of Peder Borgen's ' The Gospel of John: More Light from Philo, Paul, and Archaeology ' -- "Borgen sees much more similarity between John and Paul and even supposes that the Gospel of John co...