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In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...
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― A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists
― A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists
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Luke has interspersed with an account of the nativity of John the Baptist (no doubt obtained from the rival sect of John) a parallel nativity of Jesus built on John's model. Not that Luke himself was the one who composed it; it, too, was most likely pre-Lukan material. [...] Though Luke used prior sources, probably in Aramaic, for the nativities of John and Jesus, it appears he himself contributed bits of connective text to bring the two parallel stories into a particular relationship so that Jo
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― The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?
― The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?
