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Roger Parvus has revived the theory first proposed by Daniel Völter that Peregrinus was the author of the letters attributed to Ignatius. Parvus incorporates the ideas of Josephe Turmel and Alfred Loisy that those Ignatian letters were originally composed by a "moderate Marcionite". In par...

Maurice Casey gave out my name, place of residence, birthplace and profession in his book - without ever asking my permission. I am so glad I don't have his standards. How specific was he regarding the place of residence? :S The town. Another author, Minas Papageorgiou, had the courtesy to email an...

You realize that the etymology of Jesus = to save, salvation only works in Hebrew not Aramaic. Where it is present in Aramaic it is a Hebraism. Any appeal to the etymology assumes a Jewish audience. Just being an Aramaic (Syriac) speaker would not assume you could understand what the name Jesus mea...

But it would be illogical to assume that someone would have developed a story about a man named Jesus and expect people to accept this Jesus (or Joshua) they had never heard of was the messiah. I have generally thought the evidence points to the opposite scenario. The story of the man Jesus was a r...

I saw in Google books that Casey takes a nasty bite on Niels Peter Lemche. That's bizarre. NPL is not a mythicist as far as I can tell. He wrote on my blog that "<a href="http://vridar.org/2012/08/21/is-this-not-the-carpenter-references-to-jesus-outside-the-christian-sources/#comment-16666...

When you narrow the field of possibilities I think you are only left with seeing Christianity develop from specifically Jewish or Israelite cultural 'myths.' The idea that the heavenly Lord of Christianity was named 'Jesus' is a big problem. It's not just that Jesus is not a divine name (it couldn'...

I am really looking forward to this. Yes, mythicists thus far have only developed theories from specifically Greek or pagan traditions because ... they don't have a clue what Judaism is capable of producing. I'm not sure this applies to Thomas Brodie, Thomas L. Thompson nor even Earl Doherty. Brodi...

Last I checked, Neil Godfrey's blog had 84 subscribers. If Bible scholars like Casey are that threatened by a blog that's barely known to exist, that, to me, just underscores the insecurity of their position. I have not seen Casey's book so can only comment on what I read here. At the time Casey wa...