Even before that there was the jostling for the priesthood in the run up to the crisis under Antiochus Epiphanes,…
I am sure Dr. Ehrman and other scholars would love to know how many letters Paul actually wrote during his…
Professor McGrath You stated that the people “felt that sacrifice and other things were not being carried out in the…
The idea of spliced together letters makes me wonder about pseudepigraphy. Could any of the New Testament letters be a…
Bart, long-time fan, first time commenter. This is probably the wrong place to ask this, but I was worried if…
What do you think of the hypothesis of Ea (the Semetic name) being formed from the West-Semitic root "hyy meaning…
Lots of fascinating connections here. While you seem to have a propensity for making too many connections based on too…
I found it! Mandaeans use a Sumerian cosmology with Zoroastrian syncretism -- so this is the Sumerian god of Running…
But isn't it more likely that the "splicer" combined damaged or incomplete copies of Paul's surviving letters rather than that…
A few thoughts from the Occam's Razor perspective: Paul wrote seven authentic letters that we know over a 10-year span.…