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What a ridiculously high price for that book. Yeesh, no wonder few people ever read it. Somebody else has to be paying for it.

Irish1975, I'd separate the two claims, the one that Augustine was not the author of the material from the claim that Anselm was the author. The former is reasonably well argued, the latter is best described as speculation. This tendency of scholars to put forward a solid observation and argument an...

I aim to locate all instances of XS in the LXX, as those are plain anachronisms and falsifications. And I will say it again: The LXX is an intentionally falsified translation of the Tanahk, meant to serve and support the fake and false Judaism that Christianity introduced on top of Chrestianity in ...

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Were the deviations in circulation in some communities before they became Christian, and in fact were part of the evolution in that direction. Or was the community fully Christian already when the Greek texts were interpreted? Were the changes tendentious or...

Isayre, My view is Mark 16:1-8 is fairly close to the "original" prototype gospel. I more or less buy the circular storyline, starting in Galilee (see 1:9 and 1:14) and ending with being told to go to Galilee, that is the beginning (of the gospel) to see Jesus. Basically, the theme of the ...

Isayre, There are no known manuscripts with a lacunae missing verse 16:7, καὶ τῷ Πετρῳ is present in all. Mark 16:6-8 is essentially a retelling of Matthew 28:6-8, or the other way around from the original. Mark added "and Peter" to his narrative (beyond what was in his source), while Matt...

MrMacSon, Romans 6 is a development of the theology of the ritual, to explain it. The ritual came first. And that is basically what I'm saying. It predates formal Christianity, with the explanation evolving. Eventually it grew to incorporate Jesus himself being Sanctified. But by the time that happe...

. Chrestian (63) If one goes down to the water and comes up without taking anything and says “I am a Chrestian” then he has taken the name on loan. Yet if he takes the spirit which is pure, he has the gift of the name. He who has taken a gift doesn’t get her carried away from him – yet he who has t...

To the OP. This is a topic that academia has already spent a lot of time on. First, we all know it is generally considered that the letters were before the gospels. And there are mentions of baptism in the letters, specifically 1 Corinthians, and Galatians as a ritual already present in Christianity...

one grouping of early Christian sects supported a Judea (son of David) messiah This group supporting a davidic messiah didn't exist in first century CE. The need of describing Jesus as a davidic messiah appeared only when the Judaizers saw how much easily the "Prophet like Moses"-type was...