One stream of Gnosticism, epitomized by Marcion, came to believe that the Creator God, revered in the Old Testament, called El, Elohim, Yahweh, Jah and similar names, was an inferior, secondary, and evil or mischievous god, not the Ultimate True or Only God....
There are three people named Judas in the gospels (and eight total in theNew Testament). Two of them were disciples of Jesus, and one of them was Jesus’ half-brother, which probably made family gatherings a little awkward after Jesus’ death. It’s also possible that Jesus’ brother Juda...
The article reports that a 1,700-year-old manuscript that has been conserved, authenticated, and translated by an international team of scholars describes Judas Iscariot, portrayed in the New Testament as a traitor, instead as a hero who handed Jesus over to authorities for crucifixion because ...
Aramaic Bible in Plain EnglishYehuda said to him (he was not Scariota), “My Lord, how is it you are going to show yourself to us and not the same to the world?” NT TranslationsAnderson New TestamentJudas, not Iscariot, said to him: Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself...
There areat least 14 mennamed Joseph, who were often called Joses. The two most notable are Joseph, son of Jacob in the Old Testament, and Joseph, husband of Mary in the New Testament. Is Mary the mother of James and Joses the mother of Jesus?
It may be a "real" document, in that it is on old papyrus, and may have been written by a Gnostic. Historically it cannot be true, because that would make the other 4 Gospels lies. One cannot have 2 contradictory truths. Also, Jesus would have lied in calling Judas "a devil", if...
1.(used with a plural v.) a priestly Jewish family who ruled Judea in the 1st and 2nd centuriesb.c., esp. Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, who defeated the Syrians in 165? and rededicated the Temple. 2.(used with a sing. v.) either of two books of the Apocrypha, I Maccabee...
Jude 1:1 Or by; or in Jude 1:4 Or individuals who were marked out for condemnation Jude 1:5 Some early manuscripts Jesus Jude 1:9 Jude is alluding to the Jewish Testament of Moses (approximately the first century a.d.). Jude 1:15 From the Jewish First Book of Enoch (approximately ...
An investigation of a proposed trajectory of Old Testament wisdom traced through the Gospel of John Reviews the book "The Gospel of John," by Craig S. Keener. SL Cox 被引量: 1发表: 2000年 Remarks on the humanity of Jesus in the gospel and letters of John The questions with which we ...
See E. Bickerman,The Maccabees(Eng. tr. 1947); A. Tcherikover,Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews(1959); D. J. Harrington,The Maccabean Revolt(1988). See also bibliography underOld TestamentandJews. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia™ Copyright © 2022, Columbia University Press. License...