Justin Martyr: “But those who hand down the myths which the poets have made, adduce no proof to the youths who learn them; and we proceed to demonstrate that they have been uttered by the influence of the wicked demons, to deceive and lead astray the human race. For having heard it proclaimed through the…

Aune in his exhaustive commentary on Revelation, draws attention to the probable use of the Hellenistic Isis-Horus myth in the narrative about Jesus’ birth in Revelation 12. This is not entirely surprising since apocalyptic draws on mythological language and themes (as can be seen in Daniel 7 and the Book of Watchers of 1 Enoch),…

Ebionites were vegetarians and claimed that all of their views were approved by both James, the brother of Jesus and leader of the Christian community in Jerusalem, as well as Peter. Ebionism uses the same conceptual system as orthodox Jewish Christianity , but its theology is different. Its doctrine remains purely and simply Jewish with…

Article Most scholars conclude that Epiphanius of Salamis misidentified a Greek Gospel that was written to either harmonise or replace the Synoptics with the Gospel According to the Hebrews (cf. Panarion, 30.3.7; 13.2) (See Hans Waitz, ‘Das Evangelium der zwölf Apostel: (Ebioniteevangelium)’, Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 13/4, 14/1, 14/2 (1912–13), pp. 338–48, 38–64, 117–32;…

Taylor, R.E. and Bar-Yosef date it to the 14th century. Radiocarbon dating by three different laboratories established that the shroud’s linen material was produced between the years 1260 and 1390 (to a 95% confidence level) The case for the forged shroud is made most forcefully by Joe Nickell in his Inquest On The Shroud Of…

Article Since ʿAbd al-Jabbār himself attributes his Nativity of Time to the “Romans and the Greeks” (al-rūm wa-l-yūnān), earlier scholars have attempted to iden tify it as a festival known from Graeco-Roman antiquity — the Saturnalia, the natalis invicti, or a festival of the god Aiōn. However, I will argue that these iden tifications are…

Second, if Jesus was not born in the ‘inn’, it raises the question, where was he born? Early Christian tradition identified the site as a cave:

Nicholas, whose life can be dated uncertainly between and , originally hailed from Patara, a Lycian port-town on the coast of the Mediterranean about km from Myra. Linguistically, the name ‘Nicholas’ represents a combination of the Greek words for ‘victory’ and ‘people’, meaning something like ‘victory of the people’ or ‘people’s champion’. In the tenth…

None of the New Testament writings record the precise date of his birth. The lack of concern about this historical fact is easy to understand when one recalls that the first Christians expected the ‘end of the age’ to arrive imminently and Christ to return to establish God’s Kingdom on Earth in all its fullness.…