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Waiting for the Apocalypse As long as the first christians waited for the Apocalypse and the come-back of the Lord Jesus, they did not need a full gospel.

The apostles And the names of the twelve Apostles are these : The first, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the publican, and James son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, Simon the Cananean and...

How many Christians during the first century CE ? around 31 CE, the twelve apostles, and a few women. around 70 CE, they could be 30 to 50, small groups in Jerusalem, Rome, Ephesus, Philadelphia, Laodicea. The development of the gospels may have started even before 70 CE, with the development...

It seems to me that the way our mainstream biblical scholars still see the early history of Christian gospels can be best compared with Creationism. After all, each of our mainstream Synoptic theories today -- whether it is 2ST (Two Source Theory), 2GT (Two Gospels Theory), or Farrer -- is...

History of the Shroud of Turin The archives of the french département (district) Aube, in the town Troyes, (series 9 G) preserve the first written traces mentioning the existence of the shroud of the collegiate church of Lirey. The collegiate church of Lirey was not dependent of the bishop of...

The shroud of Turin is a linen cloth (approx. 4.36 m x 1.1 m) which was first shown in 1357 at Lirey, a very small village in Champagne, near Troyes, east of Paris, France. Then, Pierre d’Arcis, the bishop of Troyes, published a text of his predecessor, Henri de Poitiers, in which it was...

JC burial cloths The Jews of the first century did not bury their dead in a shroud or linen cloths. That custom did not originate until the early second century c 120CE. Until then Jews were buried in their best apparel. It was a prominent Jewish leader, Rabban Gamaliel [the latter of 2 such]...