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I see that BR is well ready to sacrifice a lot of episodes on the altar of the purely midrashical origin. But what he doesn't sacrifice are, in the order of importance: 3) the titulus crucis I think we've made some good observations in this thread and can begin to decide whether Bermejo-Rubio's pov...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:50 am Jerome's translation, the Vulgate, already assumes that Jesus is Shilo.

Justin Martyr in the First Apology, Chapter 32

I see that BR is well ready to sacrifice a lot of episodes on the altar of the purely midrashical origin. But what he doesn't sacrifice are, in the order of importance: 3) the titulus crucis google-translation A third relevant aspect is related to the titulus crucis, the tablet that specifies the r...

Giuseppe wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:42 am

maryhelena wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:37 am it's Valentine's Day today

Valentine is a homage to the heretic Valentinus, and I have mentioned in this thread the Valentinians as believers in the celestial crucifixion of the 'superior Christ'.

... means "Noli me tangere"

Happy Valentine's Day MaryHelena

The entire approach he takes seems absurd to me. I understand Peter and I understand you too. But for the sake of discussion, I'm completely setting aside my own basic opinions in this thread. I accept a historical Jesus and the assumption that the Gospels may contain historical material. I'm also ...

Secondly, it is important to BR's conspiracy theory because he can claim the tendency to shift the blame from the Romans to the Jews (= from politics to religion and depoliticization). That's actually true if you use the chronology Mark->Matthew->Luke (Marcion)->John. If we start with Paul and allo...

What surprises me is that BR is ready to see embarrassment in the fact that Jesus was tortured by Romans as the parody of a king, while he doesn't see that the presence of the Romans in the role of torturers is not the embarrassment, but the solution to it: in the Mark's source (*Ev) it were the He...

I don't think it can be decided that way. The meaning of anti is much broader in Greek than in English or German. For example, there was the Greek word Anti-God (ἀντίθεος), which in ancient times could mean "god-like", but later could mean "hostile deity". imho if there was a Chr...

. Bermejo-Rubio next examines the pericope of the mocking of the Roman soldiers. google-translation A second context in which, in the story of the passion, the motif of royalty appears is the scene before the soldiers. According to Mark 15:16-20 (cf. Jn 19:1-5), Jesus is the object of a parody of r...

The first words out of Pilate's mouth are "You are the king of the Jews." As Kunigunde points out, that is not necessarily a question, although it is often rendered as such. Antipas isn't widely assumed to be asking a question, why should we assume Pilate is? Yes, the Narrator says Pilate...