Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

. Barbara Theiring made some interpretations of, and propositions about, the New Testament gospels and Dead Sea Scrolls, based on her application of a complicated Hebrew interpretation technique called pesher where it is believed "that scripture is written in two levels: the surface for ordina...

Is it possible there is some tie through stories from, or by, Zoroastrianism, or a similar belief.

I think you - dewitness - might get something from some of the ideas on this page

Sid, Secret of the Savior looks fascinating! - The thesis of this book is simple. In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus is the personification of divine salvation, which is what the name “Jesus” means, “God saves.” Jesus stands for whomever or whatever Mark sees as the instrument or embodiment of salvation a...

... My New Testament professor in seminary said offhandedly that no one had ever doubted that Jesus existed "physically." Yes, that is my understanding of what was widely believed until a few were allowed to espouse inquiry during the Enlightenment, and may have been gnerally believed wel...

Robert Price seems to agree with David Probisch about an earlier version of the NT than that in Codex Sinaiticus & Codex Vaticanus

David Trobisch, The First Edition of the New Testament. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Reviewed by Robert M. Price (2009)

just realized I spelt "copped" as 'coped' in that post

I agree mythics is a small (and somewhat confusing!) aspect of determining issues around Jesus scholarship.

The Catholic encyclopedia discusses it, too

... the first guy is dependent on a group of first through third century sources in his own tradition that are preserved in a far more unreliable manner than the Christian sources. This seems to be a strawman red-herring. " dependent on a group of first through third century 'sources' " ....

Hi Eric, Bart Ehrman has written a number of very good books . He copped a lot of criticism for Did Jesus Exist? , some because he did not seem to appropriate use or address historical methodology and because he made a number of bare assertions. It was also interesting at the time that book came out...