Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Furthermore, I was under the impression that mythicists and mainstream historicists about Jesus are united in agreeing that Jesus could not have been as popular as he is portrayed as being in the Gospels - otherwise, there would have been more records about him Stevan Davies suggests a Jesus who si...

"That Jew seems to be devoted to find money: for the "poors" of Jerusalem?" Yeah and i've suggested before (and i don't think you liked it!) that this also is the inspiration for the Judas of the gospels. The gospel story encodes opposition to Paul, unbelievable as that may seem ...

Andrew you seem to know a bit about this, i wonder what exactly the connections are in Eugnostos to the philosophical system. This is quite a big question i know It seems here there's a reluctance to give credit to this text because it doesn't fit the theory that the roots of Christian gnosticism ar...

a connection as well to Paul in Josephus? "There was a man who was a Jew, but had been driven away from his own country by an accusation laid against him for transgressing their laws, and by the fear he was under of punishment for the same; but in all respects a wicked man. He, then living at R...

rg i done your homework for you ha M. Parrott translator in original NHL in English (Robinson) The notion of three divine men in the heavenly hierarchy appears to be based on Genesis 1-3 (Immortal Man = God; Son of Man = Adam [81,12]; Son of Son of Man, Savior = Seth). Because of the presence of Set...

Yep thanks Andrew that's the dating schema for Eugnostos I read The argument employed by Robinson to show that the Johannine Prologue depends on the Trimorphic Protennoia hinges on the manner in which motifs concentrated in the Prologue appear widely dispersed in the more detailed and elaborate myth...

* Yes, Tuomas Rasimus has noted the points you make in 'Ophite Gnosticism, Sethianism and the Nag Hammadi Library' - . This article discusses the definition of Ophite Gnosticicsm, its relationship to Sethian Gnosticism, and argues that * Eugnostos; Soph. Jes. Chr.; Orig. World; Hyp. Arch., , and Ap...

Alongside this proposed early gnosticism with sharp gnostic dualism there's also pantheistic elements and texts (Eugnostos the blessed and others) These origins you're talking about have to include a spectrum of gnostic-like thought and it's apparent opposite - pantheism In the pantheist scheme the ...

Can Peter prove that a such "coincidence" is a mere coincidence? Thanks in advance for that Giuseppe, some evidence for that coincidence is found the gospel narrative itself where both John and Jesus are killed from apparently the very same movement. The usual reservations apply (over who...

The years 46-48 were also marked by a severe famine. This is mentioned in Acts 11:28 some eighteen years later. Indeed, Jesus providing food to people in the gospels maybe there was a famine going on The same thing happened in the Irish potato famine, the British government and churches sat on thei...