gospels

Gday all, Here is a follow-on from a discussion elsewhere - I argue that although the Gospels were probably written c.70 - c.100, their authors and origins are unknown, and they remained hidden and private. They were not publically available until Justin Martyr had his hands on them c.150...

An interesting aspect of the gospels is that they all have pericopes. A pericope (pronounced: per-ih-CO-pay) is a story that, while being part of the gospel, is complete in itself, such as the story in the Gospel of John (though apparently added to it after the gospel was written) of the woman...

When, many years ago, I started arguing with a creationist, in a duel of letters in our local newspaper, he asserted that the empty tomb was an irrefutable argument against which non-believers had only lame rebuttals. Using Matthew's resurrection account, he said that the people of the day could...

I'm just starting this thread so as not to further sub-hijack another thread where I called R.G. Price's article "Jesus Myth: The Case Against Historical Jesus" a piece of crank scholarship. I'm just going to go through his points, in order. It'll take me a while. If other people chime in, I...

While discussing with ceo_esq his excellent review on the film " The Passion of Christ" the issue of the antisemitism of the Gospels came up. Before starting discussing the topic we saw that first we have to clarify whether we will examine strickly the texts or we will take into consideration...