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I have changed my positions many times. I only count publication by an academic journal or publisher as representing my actual opinion and even then these could change in light of new evidence. The forum is filled with Japanese soldiers inflexibly marching on long after the war was lost. I am not o...

*chuckle* Secret Alias has just been outed! Everything is starting to make more sense now lol Nothing new here.... Stephan Happy Huller has been on the forum since 2013. A number of people, Stephan, as well as myself, moved here when FRDB closed down. All one wants from Stephan is to put his cards ...

It's Matthew chapter 5. What is Matthew, chapter 5? P.S. I'm still trying to get my arms around exactly what you believe re the whole Marcion thing. And the biggest obstacle is that you believe *so much* about Marcion :-) that any individual post you make must needs be elliptical. Sometimes to the ...

I'm also thinking of the other named teachers we have, such as Valentinus or Basilides. I'm thinking of those that might be described as against Judaification, not just the Judaification ones. I'm thinking of the non-orthodox ones, not just the orthodox ones. As far as I can tell, a belief that Jes...

The purpose of this thread is not to defend my ideas above, though I'm happy to do so. It's to get people's own ideas around what Marcion means for early Christianity. SPECULATION WELCOMED! I'm interested in speculative ideas. Posts don't have to be the strong, respectful and well-thought out argum...

George Wells. As I have said, my concern in this book is with the gospels rather than with the early epistles. But the significance of the enormous difference in what is said of Jesus in these two sets of documents should not pass unnoticed; and if in fact two different personages are being synthesi...

As a telecommunications engineer without a humanities education, I have some problems with expressing my thoughts in humanistic terms. As a marketer by practice, I look for analogies and benchmarks. For me, the gospels are as much a product as The Story of Paul and Thecla or Calvin and Hobbes. Yep,...

Jesus was famous to have been crucified. Janneus was famous to have crucified. Therefore the Jews thought that Janneus crucified Jesus. The Toledot Yeshu has it's Yeshu figure born under Jannaeus but his death, execution, is under Queen Helene. An online version of the Toledot Yeshu makes no mentio...

Read the list of things he was working on a decade before his death. Why bother if he's not interested in the truth? If he made up a fake gospel why keep investigating? Morton Smith' cared. He's not arguing on behalf of dogma. He's testing. Investigating. Probing. If you could just "fake"...

Jack Bull asks about the neglect of Marcionite studies: Why have they -- why are colleagues (secular and biblical) -- not engaging with us properly ... about Marcionite studies? [/i] Jason BeDuhn gives the following answer: 24:45 "Intellectual inertia. And just to be very frank very poor quali...