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One problem I have here:

Assuming for the sake of argument that we have evidence that Paul made use of a written Gospel which resembled Luke, how does this provide evidence that this text agreed with Marcion's Gospel rather than with canonical Luke ?

Andrew Criddle

I read this as a "No" then.. To what specific question? Anyway, has anyone ever calculated how much it would cost to forge such a manuscript? You would have to produce all that top notch, selected parchment which is obviously handcrafted with utmost care. Then someone would have to devise...

Carrier has posted on the topic on his blog (with a link to a handout): http://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/12071 He also posted a blog-commentary titled The End of the Arabic Testimonium - Often when expert opinions are cited in favor of some form of the Testimonium having been written by Jose...

Thank you Andrew , In page 76 Sommer writes The contrast with E's description of the communication that takes place at the tent is telling. In E , both the humans and God come to the Tent, the humans from the camp and God from heavens: " Yhwh called suddenly to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, ' Come ...

........................................................ This could have been associated with an early 3rd c. pro-Christian emperor: the new Emperor Alexander Severus (11 March 222–235). Not only Severus' court filled with Christians but he is reported to have learned the golden rule, "Do unto...

I notice that Andrew commented that: The usual source for the claim that Hadrian built a temple to Jupiter on the Temple Mount is Cassius Dio. But this refers not to the original text of Cassius Dio book 69 but to the Byzantine epitome which has parallels to late Christian legendary sources. See Di...

Andrew wrote that the Simon's view in Hyppolitus are of the his later followers. Schmithals wrote the exact contrary: Schmithals describes what he sees as a pr-Christian system of Jewish Gnosticism. He begins with a discussion of the thought system of Simon (Simon Magus in Acts) as described by Hip...

So Novenson in the article above: Like the anonymous Jews mentioned by Tacitus and Suetonius, Paul believed that in his own time a man from the East was rising to rule the whole world; unlike those anonymous Jews, Paul believed that God had enlisted him to recruit pagan subjects for this Jewish kin...

....................................................................................................... Damn, lost part of my last draft of this, so I'll have to give the abbreviated version. The Social Science model for understanding ancient Mediterranean cultures: Bruce J. Malina & Richard L....

The alternative to a belief in (reasonably) widespread messianic expectation in the early first century seems to be that the Jewish war and fall of Jerusalem generated messianic expectations that were previously lacking; and that these expectations were back projected by later writers into the earl...