For Schonfield, Jesus had carefully planned his career of public ministry in accordance with his belief that he was Israel's Messiah.(2) Accordingly, he plotted events such as his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, on which occasion Lazarus helped him make the appropriate arrangements.(3) Jesus ma...
Seleucus Nicator, formed an empire that eventually controlled ancient Israel. The "Seleucid Empire" as it is called by modern-day historians, was passed down through the Seleucid family line for about 250 years.
And so it’s a little detrimental to the historicist case because you would expect to at least find some references out there if Jesus had existed. Because we have authors, in the first historians in the first century, that recorded similar people at the time, similar events that supposedly...
The historical evidence for Jesus is long-established. Within decades of His life, He is mentioned by Jewish and Roman historians, as well as by many Christian writings. Compare that with, for example, King Arthur, who “maybe” lived around 500 A.D. The sources for events of that time ...
and hundreds of thousands of men when their fleets were caught by storms in the Mediterranean. These staggering losses are two of the top naval disasters in history. Some historians have attributed these disasters to instability caused by the corvus. The Roman’s may have come to the same con...
have they been that theWikipedia articleon the subject tries to squeeze the ‘Philistines’ into the story. The Philistines (Paleshet) were biblical enemies of the Israelites – invaders from Crete, who were eventually lost to war and history, hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus. ...
Fr. Stephen:That it’s not Baal, son of El, who gets enthroned; that it’s Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who gets enthroned—and so maybe hedidn’t“totally win” that insurrection after all! [Laughter] This is also rewritten within the Bible in Daniel 7. ...
use were transferred to the Coptic Museum, while a set of ten wooden panels from a church door, engraved with Christian iconography in 1300 AD, is housed in the British Museum. The church was built over the Babylon Fortress, a Roman citadel whose origins were debated among Coptic historians....
father and teacher of all Christians, and [we define] that to him in [the person of] Peter was given by our Lord Jesus Christ the full power of nourishing, ruling and governing the universal church; as it is also contained in the acts of the ecumenical councils and in the holy canons...
At the same time in which the Portuguese playwright Gil Vicente condemned the theodicy of some friars who preached the tolerance of Christians toward Jews as the cause of the 1531 Lisbon Earthquake, resulting in their massacre (Bandera 2010, pp. 44–45), the Society of Jesus´ Constitution,...