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OK, I'm no Google fan (far from it), but this is pretty goddamn cool.
If there was a download link for the whole thing, documents and UI+backend source, now that would be cool.
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Gnostic and other "non-canonical" writings are also of interest. www.earlychristianwritings.com/ is another quite fascinating source, with lots of letters and such. (Neither site seems to have manuscript scans, unfortunately.) I would love to see a good source on the "circulating around the time of Jesus" claim. I've never been able to track down anything credible on that front. http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/Pagels-G…
> I would love to see a good source on the "circulating around the time of Jesus" claim. I've never been able to track down anything credible on that front. Me too. The earliest writings I know of are Paul's letters and possibly the Didache, and neither of them were written until a couple of decades after Jesus' ministry.
OK, I'm no Google fan (far from it), but this is pretty goddamn cool.
Not really that cool, when you see how they've ensured it will be available only as long as the web site and the institutional support continues. If there was a download link for the whole thing, documents and UI+backend source, now that would be cool.
Prior to the dead sea scrolls people would speculate the prophecies in Daniel were written after the fact.
The carbon dating in the dead sea scrolls seemed to prove otherwise.
as an aside, for a great book discussing the evolution of the current bible, you should read Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehram
http://www.pakg1.net/2011/05/is-bible-full-of-forgeries.html
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http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html - The Nag Hammadi Codex. Gnostic scriptures, some of which are of the Gnostic Christian varieties that were circulating around the time of Jesus and after. These offer a fascinating counterpoint to the officialized, hierarchical Christian dogma the ideas of the time were honed into.
Gnostic and other "non-canonical" writings are also of interest. www.earlychristianwritings.com/ is another quite fascinating source, with lots of letters and such. (Neither site seems to have manuscript scans, unfortunately.) I would love to see a good source on the "circulating around the time of Jesus" claim. I've never been able to track down anything credible on that front. http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/Pagels-G…
This view is not scientifically supported though.
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> I would love to see a good source on the "circulating around the time of Jesus" claim. I've never been able to track down anything credible on that front. Me too. The earliest writings I know of are Paul's letters and possibly the Didache, and neither of them were written until a couple of decades after Jesus' ministry.
I thought Mark was written around 40 years after Jesus.
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Mark was written about AD 50, so about ~16 ish years after Jesus.
I believe the general consensus is that Mark were written around AD 70, making it closer to 40 years after Jesus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament#Dates_of_composit...