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Chrestians were not Judaics, perhaps some converts among them, and some of them surely had a Hebrew background, just like I have a Christian background that died decades ago. But I don't see why "Gentiles" would not be allowed to join, nor would something like that facilitate their explos...

One might presume that if a real Paul ever spoke before a real audience of Jews (or even gentiles for that matter) one of them at some juncture might have asked him to kindly explain some facts about Jesus origins and life and how he came to be a god, the details of his ministry, his death, and his ...

Jerk out the foundational cornerstone of the gentiles being of Sarah and the Jews being of Hagar and you have collapsed Paul's entire intellectual ground breaking structural framework, leaving him with nothing to stand upon. Paul's unique revelation that he contends came from God and not from man, p...

The Septuagint Torah with but a couple to a scant few passages translated in a Christian leaning way is a Christian work that might have been retroactively forced upon Jews. The original circa 273 BC Septuagint Torah is lost to history. All extant Torah's claiming to be the Septuagint are thereby fo...

Thank you Stuart!

Stuart,

Is it possible that an ur-Mark (or proto-Mark) ended at 15:37?

I'm of the opinion that whenever Peter (who may be a completely different character from Cephas) appears within a NT text (as Peter) one should at least pause a moment to reflect upon the potential of flashing backward in time whereby to witness the hand of a proto-orthodox scribe grinning ear to ea...

If I'm reading him correctly, Martijn Linssen likely sees Mark 15:37 as the original ending, whereby with this I concur. But then along came the interpolation that spans from 15:38 through 16:8. And later still came the addition of 16:9-20. But I see verse 16:7 as a necessary redactional stitch adde...

Is it Philo (and/or some Gnostic sects) who seemed to infer that before they sinned Adam and Eve were in a garden that existed within the heavenly realm? And that after they sinned (and after being covered in a skin worthy of covering their sin) they were found to be on earth? Would this (again via ...

If one reads enough into Genesis 3:21 (that of course isn't found within the text at all), then one might infer that it was God who slew "the Lamb". And Isaiah 61:10 states that: "I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with garments of ...