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as from title. Why there is no suicide of Judah in Mark? It's strong the assumption that he is punished by his suicide, but Mark doens't say a word about his tragic end. Do you suspect that it's a strong clue that Mark is later? No. Marl 14:10-21 Verse 21 says: 21...but woe to that man by whom the ...

The importance of imposing the Roman coin denominations on the subjects in Romanised areas is clearly illustrated in the Palmyrene tax law ( first and second century AD) discussed below, where Roman denominations are officially insisted upon as accounting units. Nevertheless, the Roman coinage does...

It is not evidence for God, Gods, Triune God, or the Pantheist God.

because you refuse to understand what essence means. That's the term they and they used it for a reason. it means they three persona share the same essence so they are one God. if each is 100 percent person, then how much "god" does each share? you see what you are doing? you are saying t...

Giuseppe, Why did you quote Mark 15:38? 1) According to Clarke W. Owens and R.G. Price , the crucifixion of Jesus in Mark is allegory of the fall of Temple of Jerusalem in 70 CE. 2) since Mark 15:38 describes the immediate effect of that simbolic ''crucifixion''/historical fall of Temple, then the ...

Giuseppe, Why did you quote Mark 15:38?

...,,,Thus Tacitus is raising a distinction , on these lines, between marginal Judaism and mainstream Judaism: the former hoped in a spiritual messiah, the latter hoped in a military messiah. Mark 15:38 The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom Two curtains hung in the temple to ...

After having talked about these hallucinations, Tacitus continues: Some few put a fearful meaning on these events, but in most there was a firm persuasion, that in the ancient records of their priests was contained a prediction of how at this very time the East was to grow powerful, and rulers, com...

No. After. Maybe he did reflect precisely these voices ( that the Temple was emptied by his real occupiers, when the Jesus/Temple was killed/destroyed in the allegory. Mark 15:38 The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom The pagan gods abandon the Jewish Temple during its destruc...

Mark is saying that the pagan gods did abandon the Temple in proximity of his fall (simbolically represented by the crucifixion of Jesus). Curiously, even Tacitus refers about the exodus of pagan gods from Temple during the siege by Titus. Mark 15:38 The curtain of the temple was torn in two from t...