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Why Pilate? Perhaps it’s just math. Most would agree that Mark provided the earliest known story of Pilate as responsible for ordering the execution of Jesus. Assuming --- Mark knew Paul wrote the letter to the Galatians sometime between 47 and 57 CE, and Mark brought Paul’s Christ spirit down to ea...

To whom have you likened the Lord, or with what likeness have you likened him? ... For a τέκτων chooses wood that will not rot ... his image and so that it will not topple. Will you not know? Will you not hear? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not known the foundations of...

Thanks outhouse. I posted this primarily on your account. You didn't let me down.

After all "Mark" ... did not use carpenter in order to make some theological/christological points. I'm not so sure about that. robert j wrote in another thread --- Maybe the author of gMark was drawing on his favorite prophet Isaiah. ... many see significant subtlety in the gospel. "...

The man whose name is East is a royal figure not a priestly figure i.e. he is distinct from Jesus/Joshua the high priest. It doesn’t matter how you read it, or the way Philo read it --- it only matters how Paul might have read it (or how he chose to use it). In the examples in the OP, the one conse...

I think this is great work ... Thanks But are you suggesting a direct dependence of Paul on Philo for this idea? Couldn't it just be that their ideas inhabit the same realm of 1st century ... midrash? If that is the case at least Paul would only be commiting one layer of allegolrization... That's c...

Many expect too much of Paul’s logic, even though his letters are rife with fast-and-loose use of logic. Regardless, it often seemed to serve his aims. Paul claimed to have predecessors in belief in his Jesus Christ. Setting that aside for now because we have nothing from those predecessors --- we o...

Not for lack of interest that I haven't responded; just that the questions raised are asking me to think where I don't have pre-dug furrows in my brain. The questions are interesting. I need time to think them through. Not addressing this specifically to Neil, just using his comment for illustrativ...

... That goes with the generally accepted notion that "Mark" was not fluent in Greek. Mark’s use of “street Greek” may have been an affectation --- a deliberate choice. For many, Mark’s narrative cleverness never ceases to amaze --- his wheels within wheels within wheels many of which I s...