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Andrew wrote that the Simon's view in Hyppolitus are of the his later followers. Schmithals wrote the exact contrary: Schmithals describes what he sees as a pr-Christian system of Jewish Gnosticism. He begins with a discussion of the thought system of Simon (Simon Magus in Acts) as described by Hip...

So Novenson in the article above: Like the anonymous Jews mentioned by Tacitus and Suetonius, Paul believed that in his own time a man from the East was rising to rule the whole world; unlike those anonymous Jews, Paul believed that God had enlisted him to recruit pagan subjects for this Jewish kin...

....................................................................................................... Damn, lost part of my last draft of this, so I'll have to give the abbreviated version. The Social Science model for understanding ancient Mediterranean cultures: Bruce J. Malina & Richard L....

The alternative to a belief in (reasonably) widespread messianic expectation in the early first century seems to be that the Jewish war and fall of Jerusalem generated messianic expectations that were previously lacking; and that these expectations were back projected by later writers into the earl...

We may have to distinguish between what Hippolytus thought and what actually happened. IF Hippolytus regarded the Naassenes as earlier than Simon Magus, then this was probably because he regarded the teaching of the Naasenes (as described in book 5 of his work against heresies) as more primitive th...

The alternative to a belief in (reasonably) widespread messianic expectation in the early first century seems to be that the Jewish war and fall of Jerusalem generated messianic expectations that were previously lacking; and that these expectations were back projected by later writers into the early...

We may have to distinguish between what Hippolytus thought and what actually happened. IF Hippolytus regarded the Naassenes as earlier than Simon Magus, then this was probably because he regarded the teaching of the Naasenes (as described in book 5 of his work against heresies) as more primitive tha...

imho it may be not completely impossible that it's simply one of Mark's stories just to clarify. I'm talking about what Mark is implying, what we are meant to suppose , not necessarily what actually happened. My problem with this is that Mark himself does not seem to be concerned that the reader su...

IMHO we are meant to suppose that the Peter et al hear the beginning of Jesus' desperate prayer just before they fall asleep. imho it may be not completely impossible that it's simply one of Mark's stories just to clarify. I'm talking about what Mark is implying, what we are meant to suppose , not ...

If all the women kept absolute silence till their deaths then there is a problems about Mark's implied source for chapter 16. Whether or not what Mark says is actually historical one can generally find a plausible answer as to how Mark got to know about this. The prayer in Gethsemane seems to be an...