IIDB Archive

Reza Aslan schools us in the “myths” about Jesus Aslan, as you probably know, has made a cottage industry of reassuring the faithful that a) Islam isn’t such a bad religion after all, and that b) Jesus was in many ways a regular guy, a “man of his time.” (I’m clearly in the wrong busine...

That's Reza Aslan - he's Persian, not French.

[quote=""mountainman""] ... I know that later 4th century Coptic uses nomina sacra, and that a fair amount of Christian related manuscripts (all later than the 4th century) are also preserved in Syriac. But I don't know whether these Syriac manuscripts use Syriac nomina sacra, li...

[quote=""mountainman""] I would hope that that also means that you will have to factor in the frescoes from the "christian" building as well. Yet another lone exemplar? No "christian" churches in Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, Athens, Caesarea. No "christian&...

O'Reilly is scheduled for the Daily Show - I think tonight.

Apollos in Acts is often identified with the heretic Apelles whose followers were absorbed into the mainstream church. Look up Roger Parvus' work (check the archives.)

Price announced that he will be selling hard copies of the book soon for $25.

Peter Kirby is back, blogging at PeterKirby.com

He explains what he is doing in Starting Back From Nothing

Bill O'Reilly claims the Holy Ghost told him to write it. Nevertheless, it is being panned by a variety of commentators. On Amazon: Killing Jesus Bill O'Reilly's new book says Jesus died to free the Jews from taxation Candida Moss on what else the Fox host gets wrong—and what he leaves out. ... wi...

[quote=""mountainman""] ... Which of course brings us back to the entirely separate hypotheses about the dating of the fragment. The question is .... "what is the probability that the fragment dates from before the defence wall was constructed?" Now I can definitely sen...