Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Pilate appears in the Gospel of Mark and in the Gospel of Matthew. At first blush this could work on a theory that neither of them represent the earliest synoptic story, but... All three synoptics and the Gospel of John and the Gospel of Peter structure Pilate into the execution prominently. So the ...

An academic connected with the project could apply for a grant in the United Kingdom to further the work... no?

Perhaps it could still cost more than a grant would provide, but that'd seem to be the place to start (along with a cost estimate).

It may be instructive to look at new religious movements closer in time to our own. Mormonism for example started less than two hundred years ago and reports some 16,000,000 members. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soka_Gakkai The movement was founded by educators Makiguchi and Toda in 1930, but not f...

Proper academics prefer to use the strategic non-citation or casual dismissal -- but, without your own published work, you can't even expect that much. Someone like Richard Carrier basically has earned the right to be cited unapprovingly in obscure footnotes for the next 20 years and then forgotten....

You're going for one too many layers of doubt with "supposed consensus." Using the scare quotes indicates that you do not really agree that it is just a "supposed consensus" and, for example, believe that it's just a plain consensus. You could more appropriately use "consens...

I was just reading up on this. Turns out, my rudimentary western education on the meaning and origins of democracy dramatically under-emphasized a radical shift away from the practices more common in ancient Greece and medieval Italy, compared to parliamentary England and most modern democracies. Sp...

A perfectly neat solution is difficult to find. The subject is the Talmud, not the Mishnah. The date of the Talmud's written composition is well outside the scope of the website. The date of the oral transmission of the material is both difficult to say and covers a long period of time, both before ...

Always read the fine print... These are "hypothetical fragments." One is a quote from Eusebius, and the other is from Victor of Capua ("Pseudo-Polycarp"). http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/polycarp_fragments_01_text.htm Any connection to Papias is, at best, "hypothetical.&qu...

It's metaphorical. Otherwise it'd have to be removed from the website canon for being too late in date, and that would be blasphemy. I say late third century That might work, actually. That's still before 325, the new terminus for the website (the old one was 200). What happened in the late third ce...

Adam wrote:With you, Huller, and maybe Ben Smith all on board, can Kirby be far behind?

... wait, what?