Others have translated several of Hermann Detering's works into English and these are available on Radikalkritik. I have translated a number of additional works of his but copyright prohibits me from making some of them public. Some works that are otherwise only available in German on HD's Radika| Vridar
Why did a transnational revolt, with the Jews at its centre, erupt in 116, capable of seriously challenging the Roman empire, which at that very moment had reached the phase of its greatest expansion? . . . What events, in 115 and then 116 CE, first led to Greek-Jewish clashes in Mediterranean citi| Vridar
How we would love to know more about the times between the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE and the crushing of the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 CE. That period is surely a decisive one for how both Christianity and Judaism developed into what they are today. Some have suggested that this period saw the actua| Vridar
(Continuing the series outlining key points of Thomas Witulski's case for a contemporary interpretation of the Book of Revelation: the two witnesses being Bar Kochba and Eleazar.) Back to Josephus. Year 70 CE. The siege of Jerusalem. Josephus writes that he had pleaded with his countrymen to give| Vridar
Over 6 pages Thomas Witulski discusses the evidence for the dates of the Bar Kochba war and over 120 pages the evidence for its causes. I will distill that down to a few key points and conclusions. Dates: It is probable that the Bar Kokhba rebellion broke out openly in the spring or summer of 132| Vridar
Nina Livesey's [NL] fourth chapter of The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context makes the case for Paul's letters being composed around the middle of the second century CE. NL refers to the earlier work of the Dutch Radical Willem Christiaan van Manen [you can read the cited section on| Vridar
Fictional or literary letters - our interest here - grew in popularity from approximately 100 BCE - 250 CE, a period marked by the presence of sophists, rhetors, and professional teachers. (NL 138) Seneca was Nero's tutor up to the time he became emperor. Seneca also wrote plays and letters. The le| Vridar
Continuing reading Nina Livesey's [NL] The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context, we now come to the question of the stark differences between the Paul of the letters against the Paul of the Acts of the Apostles. In Acts Paul is submissive to the Jerusalem authorities and sympathetic to la| Vridar
In discussing how researchers create narratives to portray historical events or write biographies, Benedict Anderson, author of the highly acclaimed Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, drew a contrast with the Gospel of Matthew. These narratives . . . are set| Vridar
These past few weeks I've been trying to untangle my way through the data strands that seem to relate to Christian origins and early development (again) and I find myself coming back to the chimerical figure of Paul (again). When I reach this point, as I have done so many times before, I tend to| Vridar
Paul's letter to the Galatians has "always" been understood to have been as certainly "Pauline" as his letters to the Romans and Corinthians. Other New Testament epistles (e.g. Ephesians, 1 and 2 Timothy) have fared less well in the authenticity stakes along with reasons explaining why someone other| Vridar
A book that concludes to assign the Epistle to the Galatians and the other main Pauline epistles to the second century requires, more than any other, a few words of introduction. Not that I believe that any preliminary remarks can remove the impression of bewilderment that such an undertaking must i| Vridar
The influential French theologian who was excommunicated by the Pope for his views, Alfred Loisy, concluded that there were two different "Pauls" authoring the main letters attributed to him. The reason Paul's letters are generally considered "hard to understand" is because they intertwine two incom| Vridar
I have copied here a translation from an 1886 publication of ... ... two researchers from different fields of knowledge .... A. Pierson is the theologian ..., whose work has made him known as an astute and fearless critic .... S. A. Naber, on the other hand, is a philologist and thus offers a guara| Vridar
