Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Now the reader will have to put his thinking cap on. These neo-Coptic (or neo-Egyptian) churches (which still adhere to the solar calendar of Jubilees) have a replica Jewish 'ark' which maintains two stone tablets with the ten commandments inscribed on them. Normative Jewish and Samaritan synagogues...

Stuart Munro-Hay on the role of the Ten Commandments in Ethiopian Orthodoxy: The Ethiopian legends preserved in the book called Kebra Nagast, ‘Glory of the Kings’, relate the story of the meeting of King Solomon of Israel and the queen of Sheba, who is an Ethiopian queen called Makeda in this versio...

It is interesting to contemplate how naturally predisposed 'philologists' are to examining the gospel as a literary work. It would be something if the underlying document came from an 'anti-philologist' POV - i.e. that it was against books and their study. Again I am always thinking in terms of re-e...

It is clear to scholars of Philo that he understood there to be two distinct 'Ten Commandments' - viz. 1. the actual ten commandments chiseled into stone and 2. the transcribed ten commandments in Moses's Pentateuch: https://books.google.com/books?id=G9S1CG0iAxkC&pg=PA1&dq=%22abbreviated%22+...

You know Goodacre has argued extensively that Judas Thomas (my emphasis viz. the full name) shows signs of being written after the canonical gospels, right?

In fact, if you really think about it. Taking Clement's statements (outside of the Letter to Theodore) at face value. You have Peter who was 'there' with Peter have a gospel (whether or oral or written let's leave aside). Mark wrote a version of that gospel. It is valid or authoritative even though ...

If you look at the history of the gospel of Mark (especially as outlined in Clement - however you want 'Clement's testimony' to be defined) there is a sense that Mark's gospel relates to something written or said by Peter but where Mark did not simply 'carbon copy' the gospel of Peter. Leaving the L...

I think blaspheming against the Holy Spirit was invented by the final editor so as to protect him from accusations of forgery and editorial manipulation. Like a pirate of digital material adding a line to Stairway to Heaven like "whatever people do with our records after we release them we're f...

but aren't you seeing that in the my first post I am arguing along the lines of a presumed conspiracy by Judaizers to eclipse rumors about the real identity of a cursed man hung on the tree? Again, you can say whatever you want at the forum, just stop exaggerating the worth of these arguments. They...

Stop latching on to ANY ARGUMENT or ANY TEXT - like the mostly worthless Toledoth Yeshu - and concentrate instead on strong arguments from strong texts and other pieces of evidence.