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Hi Peter, This is great stuff, thanks. I actually think this stuff proves my supposition that Antoninus Pius was referring to Hadrian when he used the expression "most divine father." The Modestinus reference seems to me to be the text that the forger used to try to make it seem that the l...

Hi MeMacSon, I really like the idea expressed in the beginning of this piece that the gospels were post-Hadrian. We can see the Christ figure Bar Kochba as being a Jewish response to the Antinous cult. It is interesting that whereas Bar Kochba was the Messiah, Antinous was a sacrificial man-God figu...

Hi Charles,

Thank you.

Just a mention of my name if you use the concept would be payment enough.

Warmly,

Jay Raskin

Charles Wilson wrote:I should pay you good money for this stuff...

CW

Hi All, The Josephus and Tacitus references to Christianity have always seemed fake to me. There are numerous excellent published reasons to reject them. However the Pliny reference always seemed different to me. It seemed to be genuine. The few arguments against its authenticity seemed weak to me. ...

Hi neilgodfrey, "The I-speeches in the second and third Servant Songs (Isa 49:1-6; 50:4-9) cannot be used to fill this biographical vacuum because these texts are written in a conventional style (“formgebundene Sprache”) that permits no insight into a personal biography.12 The suffering and dea...

Hi EdwardM, Thanks for this. It is very helpful. According to "Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record" By Eileen M. Murphy, 2008, in an article by Phillippe Charlier in Chapter 4, these skeletons are two middle-age women who were tortured, but were not crucified. Phillippe Charlier is...

Hi Clive, Thanks for the interesting website. Apparently the solar eclipse took place on November 24th, 29. This is a half a year from Passover in April. Did the gospel writers not tell the truth about the crucifixion at Passover, yet did tell the truth about the eclipse? In this case, why believe a...

Hi MrMacson, Bernard, Paul's use of the term "flesh" is by no means clear. My analysis runs along these lines. It is not Christ's flesh that he is talking about, it is rather, by our (we Christians') "flesh". "Flesh" is contrasted with "spirit." You either kno...

Hi EdwardM, Can you tell me when these two skeletons were found? Do we know how old they are? Thanks Warmly, Jay Raskin Hi All, In researching crucifixion, I have never found any evidence of anybody being actually nailed to a cross. I don't count the idiotic nonsense of the foot found with a nail in...

When I read the Slavonic Josephus about 10 years ago, I thought that the writer had taken so much liberty from Josephus in the rest of the text that He more or less was telling his own story and just using Josephus' text as his basis. In other words, he was not interested in translating Josephus as ...