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I have suggested in the past that what set off the likes of Michael Goulder & Mark Goodacre, to oppose the very concept, was that it implied that Church tradition was <shudder> wrong. Even though they profess to be agnostics themselves, they are strongly attached to the Christian social gospel ...

I don't yet know the answer, but I am most often looking at the gospel relationships as follows: Mk -> *Ev Mk and/or *Ev -> Jn *Ev and maybe Mk -> Mt Then finally Luke is aware of all the preceding gospels: Mk -> Lk *Ev -> Lk Mt -> Lk Jn -> Lk No Q? "No Q for you!" says the "Q Nazi&q...

In Galatians 3:19 Paul says the Law was given through angels and trusted through a mediator. The mediator I guess is Moses. Who are the angels? Do you think these could be the archons of the lower celestial realms? The rulers of this material world? I'm thinking this is a smoking gun? Is there anot...

Yes. Not newly "announced this week." My ears perked up when they described writing from left to right rather than the other way around, considering the forgeries brought up recently where the Siloam inscription was written out left to right. IIRC, 4Q186 used a couple of cypher techniques...

Woefully insufficiently informative report--e.g. found where and when?--but fwiw: https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/03/14/mysterious-ancient-horoscope-scroll-unveiled-in-judaean-desert/ To pull an F M Cross 'Excuse me mr. presenter ... but isn't that the text from the Siloam inscription?' moment (in...

If the question is did the historical Josephus "turn" on the Jewish revolutionary movement he was a part of during the Jewish War of 66 - 70 CE? Of course. No question. Seems that "Of course" should be followed by an "aarrgghh!" My observation that "most governmen...

If the question is did the historical Josephus "turn" on the Jewish revolutionary movement he was a part of during the Jewish War of 66 - 70 CE? Of course. No question. Seems that "Of course" should be followed by an "aarrgghh!" My observation that "most governmen...

It is possible for individuals to evolve their thinking over time as they encounter and at least at times overcome challenges to their notions of how "things worked." So, we have a priestly Judean aristocrat who, like most folks within a state government, does their duty when called upon. ...

For those who pay attention to those pesky details, here is a updated version of something I created in pre-Unicode days (original used one of the two ASCII transliteration schemes from the 1990s), updated to Unicode (UTF-8). I titled this revision ΧΡΊΩ (Chriō), ΧΡΙΣΤὸΣ (Chrístos), ΧΡῖΣΜΑ (Chrîsma) ...

But mh, while English monarchs might celebrate the 100th anniversary of something as a "jubilee year" is kind of new. I am not aware of any time division system in use then (in Judea), that used any other system than 7 year blocks of years or multiples (7x7=49 for sabbatical years, sometim...