Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

gmx, I see your point but the wider context is that Peter was a Jew who was likely taught his whole life to live according to Jewish law in order to please God. Sure, I get that... as I understand it these first century humans were intellectually commensurate with modern humans. I guess I'm compari...

I think the "myths and endless genealogies" refer to the gospels (with "endless" being an exaggeration), more so for the genealogies, gMatthew & gLuke. BTW, most critical scholars agree that 1 Timothy was not written by Paul, but well after Paul, around 120 CE, when these go...

I'm not so sure, although admittedly, I'm far from an expert on first century (Jewish) Christianity. My view is that regardless of whether Luke implies "Jesus" or "the Gospel" when he writes "eyewitnesses and ministers of the word", he is employing symbolism or abstract...

From... 1 Timothy 1:3... the admonition is to ignore such things... to what is it referring if not the major synoptics?

my query was about how could someone who had experienced a risen Christ in the flesh and think it important enough to be in Antioch preaching the gospel to gentiles, be worried about such trivial matters? How? Trivial? Hindsight is 20/20. If things went a little differently in the first century, no...

I think that's more or less what the OP was saying. I may be entirely mistaken but I understood the OP as implying something like this. 1/ Luke here refers to Jesus as the word. 2/ Jesus only began to be referred to as the word rather late (end of 1st century CE) 3/ Therefore Luke cannot be earlier...

If you accept the letters as genuine then they are written after the death of Jesus (which early tradition puts during the governorship of Pontius Pilate) and almost certainly before the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans in 70 CE. This makes radical challenges to the conventional dating difficult. If...

Interesting post. I read that book fifteen years ago, who wrote the new testament, but I was young and it didn't impress me much. Maybe armed with slightly broader knowledge it is worth another read. I am still far from convinced of Marcan priority. I imagine your theory works equally well regardles...

It seems as though NT scholarship has hit a dead end / stalemate, where although there is furious debate and competing views, the "consensus view" for dating the literary origins of Christianity are immovable. Nothing short of a game-changing archeological find seems capable of shaking the...

On what basis are the "genuine" Pauline epistles dated to 50-60 CE? Is it essentially achieved via a correlation of the internal evidence with Luke-Acts? As far as I can tell, the conventional dating is inferred from two assumptions: (1) The Acts of the Apostles includes an approximately ...