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You got to quit believing the church fathers, Mark has nothing to do with Peter other than tearing him down and making all of Peter's words and actions condemned by Jesus' own preaching.

Those are some interesting visual patterns, I especially found the distribution in Matthew intriguing.

yakovzutolmai, you've put a lot of thought into this, I like your outline. You and BillD should collaborate.

Apologies, messed up the time in the previous post.

I'm looking forward to this book.

He messed up the magic words, those poor sinners in hell.

So they going to re-baptize or will the church use economia once again to get out of a legalistic spot?

Perhaps Jay Raskin's The Evolution of Christs and Christianities?

There's also a lack of children born into the religion until the late 2nd century.

Tacitus' account describes how the punishments reflected the alleged crimes („crimine incendii, … odio humani generis“). The Christians burned Rome –> they were burned on crosses. They hated mankind –> they were clothed as inhuman beasts and torn by beasts. It seems to me not unlikely that Tacitus ...