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Diogenes the Cynic wrote:Good point. I forgot about that one. Probably from a later layer, though.

Maybe, but... if "Q" were not a separate, actual document and if the Gospel of Thomas were a second century text dependent on previous gospels, there'd be little reason to assume that.

Melito of Sardis - died c.177 - From the apology addressed to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus "For the philosophy current with us flourished in the first instance among barbarians; and, when it afterwards sprang up among the nations under thy rule, during the distinguished reign of thy ancestor Augu...

Melito of Sardis - died c.177 - From the apology addressed to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus "For the philosophy current with us flourished in the first instance among barbarians; and, when it afterwards sprang up among the nations under thy rule, during the distinguished reign of thy ancestor Augu...

If Jesus Christ is a myth, what is the motivation to attempt to place him, so early, into an historical setting with a fixed time period? If the earliest extant gospel artifacts are from the mid-2nd century, then the originals are some time earlier, placing the act of "retrospective historicit...

I would generally agree, although it may make a difference when presenting a definition to a lay audience. I haven't read his book so I don't know how he presents it there, but I've seen a couple of his presentations on youtube, and in those, he presents Euhemerization as something that sounds as t...

a general lack of any slaves over age 30 in surviving tax rolls from Roman era Egypt. 100% manumission of slaves who live to 30? That's about as hard to fathom as the opposite, that no slave lived to be 30. Incidentally -- could this be an attempt to strive after status? https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

... first century human remains ... Actually, that's inaccurate too. Turns out that it was naive to accept the Telegraph's reporting without checking any other sources. The Telegraph's phrasing: "someone who died between AD72 and 416BC." However, every other source that I can find that is...

Κύνες πρὸς ἔμετον indeed!

+1 would read with incomprehension again

Disclaimer: I don't claim to know what Giuseppe is actually saying. So take it as a general comment. "Traditionally," Bruno Bauer and the Dutch Radical school held that the Pauline Epistles were written in the full light of knowledge of the Gospel tale. Combining the second-century Paul o...