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FWIW Justin claims that Christ was one of the three men who appeared to Abraham to Judge Sodom.

Andrew Criddle

Here is a crux of the matter. I raised it in another discussion in relation to the Flood narrative in Genesis. Imagine a redactor, R, familiar with source A. R discovers a second source, B, about the same event. R has a certain ideological viewpoint that A has illustrated in some fashion. B does no...

One General issue is that the works in the Old Testament that would often be regarded as early Hellenistic like Chronicles are revising an earlier pre-Hellenistic text (Samuel-Kings) in the light of later ideology. (Yes this does treat Samuel-Kings as pre-Hellenistic but it does IMO seem considerab...

One General issue is that the works in the Old Testament that would often be regarded as early Hellenistic like Chronicles are revising an earlier pre-Hellenistic text (Samuel-Kings) in the light of later ideology. (Yes this does treat Samuel-Kings as pre-Hellenistic but it does IMO seem considerabl...

... what evidence is there for the conquest of Canaan? One city's fall is hardly evidence of a conquest of Canaan as per the Bible. I think it's a piece of solid evidence because the archaeology of Jericho matches the unique description of the city's fall in the Book of Joshua. Titus Kennedy also s...

Other parts of the Hebrew Bible which are IMO probably from the exilic or Persian period seem to know the Pentateuch or some form of proto-Pentateuch Without knowing what works you are referring to I am unable to think this one through. Kings, Deutero-Isaiah, Haggai, Nehemiah would be examples. I'm...

Compared to the synoptic gospels, it seems unusual that Matthew is mentioned alongside Simon Peter in GThomas 13, who otherwise only plays a narrative role in the gospels as a tax collector. ... However, this juxtaposition of Simon Peter and Matthew becomes understandable against the background of ...

There is an interesting discussion by a 17th century Protestant in William Cave's Lives of the Apostles He holds that Peter was martyred in Rome but was not the First Pope.

Andrew Criddle

The canon is by definition what the Christian community canonized. Whether they got it 'right' whatever 'right' means in this context is another matter.

Andrew Criddle

The original citation is from the "Jew of Celsus" in Book 2 Chapter 4: Εἶτα λέγει ὁ παρ' αὐτῷ Ἰουδαῖος πρὸς τοὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ λαοῦ πιστεύσαντας ὅτι χθὲς καὶ πρώην καὶ ὁπηνίκα τοῦτον ἐκολάζομεν βουκολοῦντα ὑμᾶς, ἀπέστητε τοῦ πατρίου νόμου, οὐδὲν ἀκριβὲς εἰδὼς ἐν οἷς ἔλεγεν, ὡς ἐδείξαμεν. Μετὰ δ...