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[*]Robert M. Price, The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-four Formative Texts . Ben. While I have and enjoy that book, it's mostly a collection of canonical and non-canonical texts that Price uses to create a new New Testament. Each text is prefaced with a commentary essay, but by far it's the texts...

If the NT autographs are later than consensus dating, at least in their post-Marcion edited form, then Evans may be right, just not for the reasons he would want to be.

Does the shorter Romans map fairly well to JC O'Neill's reconstruction?

Would Phillipians 1-3 be too short of a sample size to test against all of Phillippians?

The Jew of Celsus also seems to know the ending of the Gospel of Peter: Further, after these Greek stories which the Jew adduced respecting those who were guilty of juggling practices, and who pretended to have risen from the dead, he says to those Jews who are converts to Christianity: Do you imag...

Wasn't there supposed to be a statue of Jesus healing the women with the issue of blood?

Did Peter just find the historical Jesus?

outhouse wrote:
You made a claim of others, what substantiates it?

About as much as what substantiates a martyred Galilean as the basis, but I do agree, if you start with a martyred Galilean as an axiom, you're bound to find a historical Jesus at the core.

Any wild and crazy ideas what Cerinth or Merinth might mean in Samaritian?

This guy seems to know a lot about Papias

http://tinyurl.com/posbr5m

but it does look like an excursion in apologia

by replacing "martyred Galilean" with any of the following: Christ figure, Messiah, Theophony

or are the many centers with very diverse beliefs limited to permutations of a martyred Galilean?