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Website title: Vridar – Musings on biblical studies, politics, religion, ethics, human nature, tidbits from science

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Anyone interested in the Gospel of John and its strong themes of the god Dionysus on Jesus indebtedness to Philo’s discussion of the Logos/Word closely related Persian, Buddhist and Hindu concepts very different Jesus from that of the synoptic gospels and analysis of why the gospel was written will find something of note in the …


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Here I am making a few responses to Professor Gabriele Boccaccini’s discussion that I translated — see the previouso post. (Note: I did not make the transcription — that was supplied by the homesite of the video, and it was machine generated. I used AI to assist in translating it.)The first point of note was …


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Here is an English translation of the transcript of Professor Boccaccini discussing the main idea of Nina Livesey’s book, The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context: Reassessing Apostolic AuthorshipI have included images and translations of Boccaccini’s slides in his presentation. —Watch on the Youtube site for comments and links to related videos, including …


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Josephus writes of a madman named Jesus son of Ananias who cries out a warning of doom to Jerusalem. He is brought before a Roman official but dismissed as having lost his wits. Another Jesus figure in Josephus was a rebel and companion of seamen as well as land workers. Josephus writes of prominent rebel …


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I am expecting this year to enter a master’s program researching the historical origins of our canonical Christian literature. The thesis I have discussed with a potential supervisor is the evidence for  their composition as late as the mid to late second century. So it was with mixed feelings that I read Robert Vipper’s 1946 …


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