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Perhaps we'll have to agree to disagree then. I don't see that there are any particular assumptions necessarily inherent to the mere use of the word "pagan" by modern historians. If I did, then I might agree with you.

Victor Paul Furnish has some brief words to say against a crop of writers questioning the historicity of Jesus, including: http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/reviews/is-this-not-the-carpenter/ "Moreover, most of the contributors take little account of the role of the Christian communities withi...

There aren't that many highly visible opportunities - especially for someone who might otherwise be "socially undesirable" (old, fat, disabled, etc.) - to have a regular and supportive social gathering weekly, outside of the institutions that have aped the Jewish, Christian, and other reli...

How often does Josephus refer to anyone as "the brother of"? Plenty. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aearlyjewishwritings.com+josephus+%22brother+of%22&oq=site%3Aearlyjewishwritings.com+josephus+%22brother+of%22&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.6794j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=2...

Right away I like how this guy thinks. I can't believe historians actually use the dumb Christian slander "pagan" as if it were appropriate or even meaningful. Hellenic is not a direct equivalent to "pagan." I don't think historians, in general, like the etymology of "pagan...

Your original point was to support your idiotic contention that there were no witnesses to Christianity before Nicaea. None of these sources do that - so shut the fuck up. Without dumbass quote mining, he'd have nothing to say. And avi should be ashamed for promoting it. I'd like to see the forum m...

"Jesus was a white man, too. He was a historical figure. That’s a verifiable fact." [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV_9ch2kQ3c#t=118[/youtube] [youtube]http://youtu.be/LV_9ch2kQ3c[/youtube] [youtube]<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/...

As Chester observes, it’s really the evidence that seems to require the conclusion that Jesus-devotion erupted rapidly and originated in circles of Jewish Jesus-followers in Judea . That conclusion (with variations in emphases) is now supported by a wide (and growing) spectrum of scholars. (a retir...

Herculean task, you say? Sounds like fun.

But the Gospel of Mark was written in the 1st/2nd AD and refers to Pilate, a figure of the 1st AD. It may still be a work removed from the description of the real world even then, but it is in that case a good question why it would choose to refer to the end coming in the lives of some of those sta...