Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

If Jesus Christ is a myth, what is the motivation to attempt to place him, so early, into an historical setting with a fixed time period? If the earliest extant gospel artifacts are from the mid-2nd century, then the originals are some time earlier, placing the act of "retrospective historicit...

I would generally agree, although it may make a difference when presenting a definition to a lay audience. I haven't read his book so I don't know how he presents it there, but I've seen a couple of his presentations on youtube, and in those, he presents Euhemerization as something that sounds as t...

a general lack of any slaves over age 30 in surviving tax rolls from Roman era Egypt. 100% manumission of slaves who live to 30? That's about as hard to fathom as the opposite, that no slave lived to be 30. Incidentally -- could this be an attempt to strive after status? https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

... first century human remains ... Actually, that's inaccurate too. Turns out that it was naive to accept the Telegraph's reporting without checking any other sources. The Telegraph's phrasing: "someone who died between AD72 and 416BC." However, every other source that I can find that is...

Κύνες πρὸς ἔμετον indeed!

+1 would read with incomprehension again

Disclaimer: I don't claim to know what Giuseppe is actually saying. So take it as a general comment. "Traditionally," Bruno Bauer and the Dutch Radical school held that the Pauline Epistles were written in the full light of knowledge of the Gospel tale. Combining the second-century Paul o...

This all reminds me of a book I read way back when about the remains of St. Peter in Rome. It seemed vaguely convincing at the time. I believe it was called "The Bones of St. Peter," published 1982, by John Evangelist Walsh. http://www.defendingthebride.com/ss/peter/Bones%20of%20St%20Peter...

It is a fascinating question? Sure. I've found a reference that is relevant, but someone else (if anyone) will have to track it down. The Passio S. Artemii, Philostorgius, and the dates of the invention and translations of the relics of Sts Andrew and Luke. Burgess, Richard W.. (2011) - In: Burgess...

Well this is quite possibly another subject you could enlighten me on. Pseudepigraphy (writings not by a person but purported to be by a person) number in the hundreds or even thousands (depending on your timeframe and the way you subdivide your pseudepigraphs). Now most scholars get very wibbly wo...

At the very least, it can tell us is that the first century Christian church regarded this man as important enough to protect and venerate his remains No, it can't. We don't know when exactly these remains began to be protected and venerated. I wasn't meaning that it does tell us, but that it possi...