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Two different (a)historicity hypotheses: The view that, given a sect raising Moses to archangelic heights for the his role in Exodus, another sect raised Joshua to archangelic heights as superior to Moses (=the Law). The view that YHWH, meant as the Jewish "Second Power in Heaven", was (soon...

HJ==Jesus existed in the first place. If we don't have any evidence for unicorns, I often wonder if ever unicorns... The MSS are not HJ evidence:

Plausible points in a hypothetical sequence of events: Highly plausible. This really would have been a typical cult for this time and place. Also plausible. Crucifixion was a standard Roman means of executing rebels, and having a crowd loudly claim you were the true King of the Jews come to...

~66% on probabilities, the elephant is a myth. ~33% the elephant pooped on Earth. Nothing else can be reliably claimed. The poop is the only valid evidence. Carrier's upper bounds derive from his a fortiori probabilities.

Which means that counter culture sectarian Jews had conversations about the celestial Jesus Angel dying and rising. On Carrier's knowledge of late second Temple sectarianism. Thus many Jewish counter-culture sects were extant during the period in question that may have influenced or even...

Proactively posting this response for our resident poster children candidates. Get you hands off my Jewish HJ! Rx...🚬 via poppy-somniferum! Run around yelling "NO answer whatsoever for the question of James, Jesus's brother."! Wash off elephant poop.

Robyn Faith Walsh's new manuscript project is per gMark+Homer & Vergil +Greek Mimesis Walsh's project will also feature the shared Middle Platonic Greek words that occur in Paul & gMark. And will present the milieu for when these terms were used. Walsh has previously noted that Paul is aware...

A demijew. with a Roman white male daddy. What is the Bayseian likelihood what modern Jews have Roman white male daddy dna

"Only the mythicists continue to deny the obvious, namely, that Herakles is a white male. This is the core of white male hatred." --Euhemerus ( Third century BC white male, philosopher and historian)

On Carrier's knowledge of late second Temple sectarianism. It is plausible that counter culture sectarian Jews had conversations about the celestial Jesus Angel dying and rising.

New Testament scholarship could improve a lot by learning maths and logic reasoning. Carrier, Richard (2012). Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus. Prometheus Books. Conditional Probability: The probability of one event (A) happening given that another event...

KISS it goodbye...

Probably not their first choice

Winner winner chicken dinner!

In the original pre-canonical gMark, JacobZ (as Israel) betrays Jesus as there were only three followers/comrades of HJ attested in gMark. The rest: Andrew, Judas, etc. being latter additions. Name (in order of presentation)Mentions by name (3:20–16:8)Base NameModifierCognomenNew name given...