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RECOMMENDED READING The Futile Search For A Historical Jesus Comparative Religion Solar Mythology The Origin, Evolution,
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RECOMMENDED READINGThe Futile Search For A Historical JesusComparative ReligionSolar MythologyThe Origin, Evolution, and Future of ReligionHistory of ChristianityCritical Examination of The BibleRed vs. Blue: The Difference Between the Conservative and Progressive Thought ProcessMi...
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Exposing the Christian "CHARITY" Racket: Billions and billions of tax-exempt dollars are allocated to advance Communism
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The Truth About Christian Charityhttp://see_the_truth.webs.com//XianCharity.htmlExposing the Christian "CHARITY" Racket: Billions and billions of tax-exempt dollars are allocated to advance Communism "Because the churches are tax-exempt, the average citizen pays an additional $9...
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`I am evangelising Christians' Interview with Prof. Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Divinity School, Harvard University.
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RELIGION `I am evangelising Christians' Interview with Prof. Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Divinity School, Harvard University. V. GANESAN Jesuit Fr. Francis X. Clooney began his academic career as an instructor in English at St. Xavier's High School in Kathmandu in 1973. Thirty-two ye...
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Ancient Jerusalem: The Village, the Town, the City
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Ancient Jerusalem: The Village, the Town, the CityAs published in Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2016 Hershel Shanks • 05/09/2016It’s made such an enormous impact on Western civilization that it’s hard to fathom how small its population really was—small compared even to the ce...
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Mary Magdalene and Judas Iscariot Never Existed - Dennis MacDonald
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Mary Magdalene and Judas Iscariot Never Existed: The Author of the Gospel of Mark Created Them (Guest Blog by New Testament Scholar Dennis MacDonald)Posted on April 15, 2016by CelsusBelow is a guest blog that NT scholar Dennis MacDonald asked me to post here on Κέλσος. MacDonald argues that...
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Mt.Gerzim text- Southern California universities acquire rare religious texts
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Southern California universities acquire rare religious textsFive fragments of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls are in the collection of Azusa Pacific. Loyola Marymount is displaying a leaf from one of the original Gutenberg Bibles from the 1450s.September 14, 2009|Duke HelfandThe word o...
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John the Baptist and Josephus- by G. J. Goldberg
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John the BaptistandJosephus by G. J. Goldberg Contents The New TestamentA Baptism of Repentance Mark 1:4-9 Lk 3:3-3:18 (Matthew 3:1-12) Herod, Herodias, Salome and the Hea...
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TIME IN PROPHECY: THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST
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TIME IN PROPHECY: THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST INTRODUCTION http://www.thetimeline.org/first_coming.html On what year, month, and day was Christ born? On what year, month, and day was he crucified? On what day was he resurrected? What was the length of Christ’s earthly ministry? Regarding div...
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Dead Sea Scrolls 'Authors' Never Existed - Prof.Elior Jerusalem's Hebrew University
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http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1885421,00.htmlBiblical scholars have long argued that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish community known as the Essenes, which flourished in the 1st century A.D. in the scorching desert canyons near t...
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The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife
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The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-unbelievable-tale-of-jesus-wife/485573/ A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story—a real-life DAVINCI CODE invol...
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NEWLY DISCOVERED DEAD SEA SCROLLS ARE SKILLFULLY CRAFTED FAKES
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TECH & SCIENCENEWLY DISCOVERED DEAD SEA SCROLLS ARE SKILLFULLY NEWLY NEWLY DISCOVERED DEAD SEA SCROLLS ARE SKILLFULLY CRAFTED FAKES, EXPERTS SUSPECTBY NINA BURLEIGH ON 10/18/16 AT 10:24 AMAn employee of the Israel Antiquities Authority sews fragments of the Dead Sea scrolls in a preserv...
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Jewish Scholar Refutes The Holocaust and lies of 60 Lakhs Jews being Killed - Mere exaggarated Lies
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Jewish Scholar Refutes The HolocaustHolocaust Hype Articles Jewish Scholar Refutes The Holocaust A Letter To Brother Nathanael Kapner June 18, 2014 © Support The Brother Nathanael Foundation! Or Send Your Contribution To: The Brother Nathanael Foundation, PO Box 547, Priest River ID 838...
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Pagan Christs by John M. Robertson
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Prometheus, (Detail) by Gustave Moreau [19th cent.] (Public Domain Image)Pagan Christsby John M. Robertson[1911]
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Did Mark Invent the Sea of Galilee? -Paul Davidson
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Did Mark Invent the Sea of Galilee?Most of Mark’s Gospel prior to the passion narrative revolves around a body of water the author calls the Sea of Galilee. It is the geographical focal point where Jesus calls his disciples, preaches to the crowds, travels (by boat), and performs his miracles — incl...
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The Current State of Biblical Studies - Gary A. Rendsburg, Cornell University
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Down with History, Up withReading: The Current State of Biblical Studies[1].......... By Gary A. Rendsburg, Cornell UniversityThe simplest way for me to illustrate the title of my talk "Down with History, Up with Reading" is to present the state of biblical studies then, meaning thirty...
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Why the Old Testment is a Lie by Banjo_Billy
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Why the Old Testment is a Lie
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Those of you who are Christians should not take offence that
The Old Testament is a Lie because you have the Truth that Jesus
brought to Mankind. Unfortunately, the Enemies of Mankind -- the
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Could Jesus Have Been Psychotic? - Kalavai Venkat
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Could Jesus Have Been Psychotic?Posted on May 12, 2016 by Kalavai VenkatResults of an Investigation by Leading Medical ExpertsIntroductionA 2012 investigation informs that Jesus could possibly have suffered from a psychotic disorder. This information may shock some Christians, wh...
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PSYCHOLOGY OF PROPHETISM- KOENRAAD ELST
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PSYCHOLOGY OF PROPHETISMA Secular Look at the Bible KOENRAAD ELST Voice of India, New Delhi Contents Introduction 1. Bringing Scripture Down to Earth 2. The Psychology of Prophetism 3. Psychology of Jesus 4. Reactions to Psycho-Christology
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Who wrote the Bible? Rise of the Documentary Hypothesis
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2011-12-25Who wrote the Bible? Rise of the Documentary HypothesisThis post looks at the rise of the dominant scholarly hypothesis that the Old Testament came together through the efforts of various editors over time collating and editing a range of earlier sources. The structure and bulk of the...
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Who the ‘EL was God? (Margaret Barker’s The Great Angel, 2)
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Who the ‘EL was God? (Margaret Barker’s The Great Angel, 2)Okay, bad juvenile pun, I’m sure.But I’m having trouble outlining Margaret Barker’s Israel’s Second God here. Firstly because work commitments have made it difficult for me to take the time to synthesize and then restructure the contents...
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What Happens to the Documentary Hypothesis if the Pentateuch was written 270 BCE?
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2013-01-02What Happens to the Documentary Hypothesis if the Pentateuch was written 270 BCE?What happens to the Documentary Hypothesis (DH) if, as outlined in recent posts, the Pentateuch was first written in the third century BCE? That’s the first question that comes to most of us when first hear...
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What Did Ham Do to Noah?
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What Did Ham Do to Noah?Now for something light. It comes from a book by two professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch, titled From Gods to God: How the Hebrew Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient Myths & Legends, published 2004 by the Jewish...
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Bible Origins — continuing Wajdenbaum’s thesis in Argonauts of the Desert
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2011-12-24Bible Origins — continuing Wajdenbaum’s thesis in Argonauts of the DesertThis post continues with further introductory themes in Dr Philippe Wajdenbaum’s Argonauts of the Desert. The posts are archived here.How late was the Bible? And who really wrote it?It has become a truism tha...
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The Second God among ancient Jewish philosophers and commoners
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2010-12-02The Second God among ancient Jewish philosophers and commonersThe Jewish philosopher Philo lived in Alexandria, Egypt, around the time of Jesus and Paul were said to have lived, and wrote many works arguing that the Bible stories were allegories of higher truths that had counterpart...
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Little known questions about the archaeological evidence for the Bible: The “Israel Stele”
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2009-09-12Little known questions about the archaeological evidence for the Bible: The “Israel Stele”I have just purchased Philip R. Davies’ Memories of Ancient Israel and got a bit of a shock when I read this about the Merneptah Stele:After mentioning Canaan, and three Canaanite cities of Ash...
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Origin of the northern kingdom of Israel
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2009-08-30Origin of the northern kingdom of IsraelSharing here what I’ve found of interest in an alternative view to Finkelstein’s account of the rise of the kingdom of Israel.While Finkelstein sees the rise of Samaria and Omride dynasty in the context of cyclical demographic-economic patte...
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2009-08-20Archaeology and Israelite origins – the good news about the Book of JoshuaThe good news is that there was no military invasion of Canaan and no mass genocide of Canaanites by the Israelites under Joshua. God is off the hook on this one.Israel Finkelstein, Professor of Archaeology at Tel A...
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Judea, an Ideal State of the Greek Philosophers?
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2014-08-25Judea, an Ideal State of the Greek Philosophers?The ancient Greek world appears to have been ignorant of the Jews (or even Israel) in Palestine until around the end of the fourth century. I still recall my high school disappointment when I read the famous work of the Greek “father of hi...
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Jerusalem unearthed – archaeology and Jerusalem 1000 to 700 b.c.e.
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2009-08-26Jerusalem unearthed – archaeology and Jerusalem 1000 to 700 b.c.e.The biblical legend:1000 to 700 b.c.e. covers the biblical time from the reign of Solomon to the fall of Jerusalem’s neighbouring northern kingdom of Samaria. According to the narrative of 1 and 2 Kings Jerusalem in the...
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Where did the Bible’s Jews come from?
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Where did the Bible’s Jews come from? 2012-02-16 by Neil GodfreyThis post is based primarily on a few pages in The Mythic Past by Thomas L. Thompson. It is slightly supplemented by fewer notes from a different but complementary discussion on the biblical meanings of “the people of God” in The I...
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