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The italicized text below immediately after the bullet is from Bart Ehrman’s post Early Christian Docetism, September 28, 2015. The text following that line is from another of his posts at the cited link. From the surviving documents of the period, there appear to have been five major competing Christologies (= understandings of who Christ […]
Continue ReadingLocated three miles northwest of Nazareth, Sepphoris—Zippori in Hebrew—is best remembered for later Jewish history. The city served as the capital of the Galilee under the Jewish Hasmonean dynasty until about 20 C.E., when it was replaced by a new city on the Sea of Galilee, Tiberias, by Herod Antipas. Later, in the second century C.E., the city became […]
Continue ReadingSee Did Paul Get His Gospel from James and the Apostles Who Knew Jesus? Transcript to YouTube here https://youtu.be/CBqX303SdA8?si=FrcwxNuWbGp__d-c; 34 minutes of Tabor’s Zoom Meeting on Sept. 29, 2024 Posts at Ehrmanblog.org Posts by James Tabor
Continue ReadingFrom Bart Ehrman’s post Early Christian Docetism, September 28, 2015. From the surviving documents of the period, there appear to have been five major competing Christologies (= understandings of who Christ was) throughout the Christian church, and I will devote a post or two to each of the first four.
Continue ReadingApril DeConick: Where Did Gnostic Ideas Come From? – Shirley Paulsen‘s YouTube Channel hosts April DeConick who theorizes about how gnostic ideas that emerged as a concept in antiquity keep reproducing themselves within different environments. This is one of the things that propelled religion toward its therapeutic aspect and individual relations to God. It came […]
Continue ReadingThis long post has a lot of views and insights. In addition see: John 20:30-31; Life in his name through believing 30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. 31 But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the […]
Continue ReadingSubpages to this page are summaries and extracts from Dr. James Tabor’s 16 lectures from his “Christianity Before Paul” series during the winter/spring of 2025. Also, see the page on this site titled Jesus Before Paul and Robyn Faith Walsh’s paper, “A Jesus Before Paul?” All text below is by Dr. James D. Tabor from here. […]
Continue ReadingIn Lesson 4 of Bart Ehrman’s course The Genius of Acts of the Apostles, he says: Historically, it is absolutely the case that the Christian movement began as a kind of Judaism. Jesus himself was Jewish. His followers were Jewish. They kept the Jewish law. They adhered to Jewish customs. Nobody said anything about not […]
Continue ReadingFrom Bart’s post Twelve Days of Christmas Day 8: Why Was Jesus Born of a Virgin in Matthew and Luke? See also the quote below from Shaun Wheeler of BSA. In Matthew’s version, Jesus is born of a virgin because this is what was predicted in the prophet Isaiah, as he explicitly states in Isaiah […]
Continue ReadingBelow is from Wikipedia. The Nicene Creed of 325 explicitly affirms the Father as the “one God” and as the “Almighty,” and Jesus Christ as “the Son of God”, as “begotten of […] the essence of the Father,” and therefore as “consubstantial with the Father,” meaning, “of the same substance”[20][21] as the Father; “very God of very […]
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