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Early Christians in the era of the Kitos Wars and the Bar Kokhba uprising separated God from the Jews in two ways. Or that the God of the Jews is a minor demiurge. Or that the God of the Jews is the only God that the Jews did not understand Who were the first christ devotees and did they honor a po...

Most High = Ὑψίστου Of its eight uses in the NT, five are in Luke (with three of those five being in Luke 1: in vv. 32, 35 and 76; and one in each of Luke 6:35 and 8:28); one in each of Acts 16:17 and Hebrews 7:1; and, as noted, in Mark 5:7). ὑψίστοις = 'in the highest' is in Mark 11:1, Matthew 21:9...

John Granger Cook (2017) 'Resurrection in Paganism and the Question of an Empty Tomb in 1 Corinthians 15,' New Testament Studies , 63 (1); pp.56-75 Abstract 2 In ancient Judaism (from the second century BCE on), the existing evidence demonstrates that individuals viewed resurrection as physical (i....

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[Marcion] opposed allegorical reading of the scriptures, which was the main distinguishing feature where he stood out from Basilides and Valentinus. What scriptures are you referring to here? to Hebrew scriptures? Pentateuch? Tanakh? Mostly Genesis?, or to Christian scriptures? And related: For oth...

I think the gospeltext that Marcion had was used & expanded by Luke, ie. the Marcionite gospeltext was a 'proto-Luke.' I think a proto-Mark developed in the Marcionite community (or 'adjacent' to it) and was used to develop a proto-Matthew (and either that first edition of Matthew or subsequent ...

Added more text after Peter's highlights to tease this out: Clement of Alexandria writes ( Stromateis 2.7-8): To these, then, and certain others, especially the Marcionites , the Scripture cries, though they listen not, “He that heareth me shall rest with confidence in peace, and shall be tranquil, ...

Now the apostle, whom they do not comprehend I'm interested to know who the apostle is. From https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/clement-stromata-book2.html For how ever could the soul admit the transcendental contemplation of such themes, while unbelief respecting what was to be learned st...

Josephus Antiquities 18 . 109 -18: . [109] Meanwhile there was a quarrel between Aretas the king of Arabia Petrea and Herod, for this reason: Herod the tetrarch had married the daughter of Aretas and had been with her a long time. Once, however, when he was in Rome he lodged with his half-brother He...

Also in Photius, Bibliotheca fol. 238 - before, "James, the brother of the Lord" - is, Agrippa the Great, reigned over the Jews, says Josephus, by filling them with his favours. It was to please them, apparently , that he killed with the sword James the brother of John , and that he tried...