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MrMacSon, let's not forget to mention what Lüdemann is perhaps the most famous for: He got in trouble with his university for denying the resurrection of Jesus/for not being a Christian. He wasn't sacked but he basically was pushed to the side. One of the reasons why one should hesitate before acce...

I haven't read it, but would be interested in perusing it after reading those reviews, and about Ludemann's work.

I thought Tertullianus was one of the first to propose a Trinity ...

Perhaps one of Gerd Lüdemann's best known works is Jesus After 2000 Years: What He Really Said and Did Here are a couple of reviews http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/doug_shaver/jesus.html http://www.christianorigins.com/ludemann.html He has a personal web site Lüdemann has written a number of ...

Didn't the Council of Nicea spend a bit of time and effort finalizing 'doctrine' eg. warding off Arianism?

There still seems to have been a predominance of other gnostic variants in the 3rd C, too.

The theory of the fourth century construction of Christianity is something like the construction of a few decades worth of analysis of the Cuban missile crisis, without any Cubans or nuclear missiles or cold war. (The post-135 origin of Christianity, which I now see is Avi's preference, is not near...

Unless it can be shown that all Paleographers are wrong about the dating of all NT manuscripts before the 4th century then it cannot be argued successfully that the Jesus cult started in the 4th century. For once, I agree. Unless they were re-using materials - paper, parchment or whatever - ie. re-...

theology hardly facilitates truth

Hasn't there been increased doubt about much of what has been proposed about Jewish origins, including the Exodus?

Huff. Post 2011 - Passover In Egypt: Did the Exodus Really Happen?

... There is no evidence for the existence of any Christian writings or beliefs, prior to the conclusion of the third Roman Jewish conflict, which resulted in the forced expulsion of all Jews from Jerusalem ... The final expulsion? ie. expulsion had been going on for decades, started in previous co...