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aa5874 · 06-28-2010, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Mars Man

Thanks for getting back, aa5874. Yes, believe it or not, I am bit too busy to spend too much time on line.

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Originally Posted by aa5874

I am talking about Jesus of the NT.

Gottcha! We're talking about different things after all, then. Thanks for the heads up.

MM

What!! You don't know what you are talking about.

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Originally Posted by Mars Man

I cannot recall the professor investigating the historical Yeshua matter, nor the source.....

Lights out.

mountainman · 06-29-2010, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by stephan huller

There's a difference between a fairy tale and a musterion.

Any intelligent person is able to separate truth from fiction.

Emperor Julian was an intelligent person who was convinced that it was a "monstrous and untruthful tale", but his full report on the matter was censored by those in charge of the preservation of literature - the orthodox tax exempt christians. At the present moment we only have the words of Julian preserved from a polemical refutation of Julian written by the thug murdering bishop Cyril. Should the original three books of Julian suddenly be found then the world may have to come to terms with the very real possibility that Jesus is a fairy tale packaged in a lavish 4th century pseudo-history that is not dissimilar in both genre and modus operandi to the common forgery and "mockumentary" known as "Historia Augusta".

It would be more than interesting to run the same, or other, computer analyses of the text to determine whether the postulated one author of the "Historia Augusta" is anything at all similar to the postulated one author of both "Historia Eccesiastica" and "In Preparation for the Gospels". Does anyone know anyone who has been involved with these analyses of the "Historia Augusta"? I can recall reading something about several more recent computer analyses that may have questioned the following (hypothetical

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Re: "Historia Augusta" - From the editor at livius.org:

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As long ago as 1889, it has been suggested that the work was composed by one single author. (This idea was proposed by the great German Altertumswissenschaftler Hermann Dessau in a classic essay "Über Zeit und Persönlichkeit der Scriptor Historiae Augustae", in the journal Hermes.) A more recent stylistic analysis using computer techniques has confirmed this hypothesis beyond reasonable doubt. But the six fake authors and the fake division into an earlier and a later phase of composition, are only the beginning of a lovely game of hide and seek.

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