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A website of outlines of scholarly works and some of my own exploratory ventures as a companion to posts on my Vridar blog.

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Archaeology of Palestine and Old Testament Origins

• In search of ancient Israel (notes from Philip R. Davies)
• Moses' Exodus and Xerxes' Greek Campaign (notes from Jan-Wim Wesselius)

Hermann Detering, Review of Did Jesus Exist? by Bart Ehrman

• Prof."Errorman" and the non-Christian sources

Thomas L. Brodie: The New Testament's Dependence On the Old -- Illustrated

• Chapter 7 of Brodie's Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery

Gospel of Mark

• Gospel of Mark's fictional characters
• Gospel of Mark's bookends
• Gospel of Mark's sources -- the feeding of the 5000
• Gospel of Mark's sources -- healing of Jairus's daughter
• Gospel of Mark and the Homeric epics (notes from Dennis R. MacDonald)

Gospel of Peter

• Gospel of Peter comparison with canonical gospels. Table

Gospels of Mark and Peter

• Alternative gospel trajectory
• Gospel of Peter

Josephus and Christian origins

• Tale of Two Jesus's (notes from Theodore Weeden)

Justin Martyr on Christian origins

• The Gospel as gleaned from Justin Martyr's writings
• Church origins according to Justin Martyr's writings

Paul and Christian origins

• Romans 1:2-6 -- Anti-Marcionite interpolation?
• Acts of Paul and the Pastorals
• Paul the Stoic (notes from Troels Engberg-Pedersen)

"The Creation of Christ: An Outline of the Beginnings of Christianity" by P. L. Couchoud

The full text of both volumes of "The Creation of Christ: An Outline of the Beginnings of Christianity" by P. L. Couchoud is now available as PDF files:

• The Creation of Christ. Volume 1
• The Creation of Christ. Volume 2

Summary outlines of each chapter of Couchoud's Creation of Christ are available at the VRIDAR blog. To see the table of contents of Creation of Christ with links to those chapter by chapter Vridar notes go to:

• Table of Contents for Couchoud’s The Creation of Christ

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