Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Superb review/summary of the book, Peter. I never read it, either, not because I'm not interested in the question, but because I find Ehrman naive, conventional and boring. His utter lack of knowledge or engagement of what Spin once memorably called "the transmutation of literature into history...

In any case, the evidence does not support a ritual approach to the complex of material grouped under the category of “dying and rising gods,” at least for Ugarit and Israel. An attempt to resuscitate Frazer's category must drastically modify its basic criteria, perhaps so much so that Frazer would...

Constructions like "dying and rising gods" are basically junk DNA that keep discussions like these bogged down in obsolete 19th century thinking. In the Ugaritic texts, Ba'al apparently goes down into the underworld, is temporarily overwhelmed by death, but then defeats death and goes bac...

Constructions like "dying and rising gods" are basically junk DNA that keep discussions like these bogged down in obsolete 19th century thinking. In the Ugaritic texts, Ba'al apparently goes down into the underworld, is temporarily overwhelmed by death, but then defeats death and goes bac...

Yahweh was, I submit, worshipped as a descending and ascending (dying and rising) deity after the pattern of Ba'al (or Hadad); both Ba'al and Yahweh were cloudriding storm gods; both were at least sometimes regarded as sons of the high god El; and Ba'al actually meant "lord", which is int...

I have a copy of "Acts and Christian Beginnings: The Acts Seminar Report" edited by Smith and Tyson. If you have a specific question about the book, I'll try to look it up. The authorship of the Gospel of Luke was not part of the Acts Seminar. On the question of a single author for both Lu...

Oh Sweet Jesus, please hide this thread from Secret Alias, or we will have 37 pages of gobbledygook about "Secret Mark" by Saturday.

In the Paulines, which I have studied in detail for a long while now, I have bracketed verses or parts of verses that contain the word orgē that I feel are the additions of an editor who had reworked some letters that originally had nothing to do with Jesus Christ. So, here I see two uses of the sa...

So you're argument for "interpolation" is that 1 The 2:16 is in the present tense, while all other references to the "wrath" are in future tense? There is not only the present perfect tense of the last sentence. The εἰς τἐλος at the end of the paragraph can as well be translated...

So you're argument for "interpolation" is that 1 The 2:16 is in the present tense, while all other references to the "wrath" are in future tense? There is not only the present perfect tense of the last sentence. The εἰς τἐλος at the end of the paragraph can as well be translated...