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When the Christian calls himself the 'peripsema' he means that he and Jesus have traded places, his 'old self' is now witnessed as being crucified and Jesus lives in him.

This is further confirmed by the appearance of the idea in the writings of Ignatius: What is the character of that sacrifice for Ignatius? Ignatius will call his sacrifice a 'scapegoat sacrifice'. As he explains to the Ephesians gathering around him for the procession to the altar of sacrifice at Ro...

More on the meaning of 1 Cor 4:13: ὡς περικαθάρματα. The uncompounded κάθαρμα is more common in both the senses which the two forms of the word have in common. These are (1) ‘sweepings,’ rubbish, and, (2) as in Proverbs 21:18, ‘scapegoats,’ i.e. victims, piacula, lustramina, used as expiationis pret...

More apostolic references to scapegoats in Paul: Of course, Paul's critique is serious, not frivolous. He is saying that the apostolic pattern, like the Christ-pattern, is that one will be abused by the world and vindicated later. "We have become like the rubbish [perikatharmata] of the world, ...

And then in the two goats story in Leviticus: “Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household. 7 Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 8 He is to cast lots for the two goats—one l...

Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, 11 who did all those signs and wonders the Lord sent (שְׁלָח֑וֹ) him to do in Egypt—to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land. For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome d...

The idea would here be that Paul was somehow at the Passion (cf. De Recta in Deum Fide) but also that Jesus died on his behalf (or better yet they changed places).

Making some progress perhaps in developing a tentative understanding of a docetic Passion narrative. Let's suppose for a moment that - as the Islamic pseudepigrapha and other traditions suppose - that Jesus and someone else get interchanged. In the standard narrative Jesus does get crucified and (ac...

When I make reference to the 'white' bias in New Testament scholarship on all levels including mythicism I do so not because (a) I don't consider myself white (b) out of antipathy for European culture or (c) to be controversial. I do so including the Islamic tradition as part of the greater Semitic ...

Jesus as the scapegoat, NOT the sin offering goat.

Score one for the Islamic pseudepigrapha and the substitution tradition.