The Alternative Bible Scholarship Site moves to a banner-ad free server

(I-Newswire) December 10, 2009 - The Alternative Bible Scholarship Site is now moving to a new server! The old one had lots of great content, but also had banner ads, as well as a popup, although it did not open a new window. These were due to the free web host. All of that is now gone, at the new host. The new link is:

http://altbibleschol.110MB.com

The new site also supports PHP, so I am using a new counter, and it is easier to maintain the menus, both for Javascript and non-JavaScript browsers. Also, it has new JavaScript menus that are similar to a Windows application with menus that drop down over the scrollable content area.

There have also been several improvements in the content. Most notably, the parallels between Josephus' works and the Gospels have been re-edited, with many corrections, several new parallels, and an table to serve as an index into the table which shows the full text of the parallels in most cases. Also, the John the Baptist in Josephus section has been extensively re-written, as a result of discussions held with others at the Rationality and Freethought Forum. Some of the observations and conclusions are more measured, and some objections from recent scholarship have been addressed, although there are a few works I have been meaning to check out on the subject. The basic conclusion is still that the passage on the Antiquities was probably not written by Josephus, unless we allow that John was executed well earlier, which would contradict the Gospels, unless we have Herodias and Antipas getting married well earlier, in which case, huge sections of Josephus must be ahistoric; in places where this seems unlikely.

About Alternative Bible Scholarship, Inc.:
This is a pretty new site, but has considerable depth on many of the pages it has. It posts original content and reviews of theories which hold the potential to be breakthroughs in our understanding of the actual history behind the formation of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Scriptures. While there are a lot of new theories of Bible origins these days, most do not adequately substantiate their case, or else are not really finding out much that gives us real insight into its true history. Nonetheless, exciting, new research is being done, and breakthroughs are happening, if you can just sort through it all. While it is not yet an extensive site yet, the material it presents should be fascinating to open-minded seekers of the true history of the Bible. Most people will probably not be familiar with much of what is there, and although not much is up yet, I'd like to think that most of the NT scholarship that is truly breakthrough will be covered there.

Currently up are: an independent assessment of the parallels described in Joseph Atwill's Caesar's Messiah, showing nearly three dozen parallels between Josephus and the NT; a comparison of Christian rituals and customs vs. Jewish and Roman ones; an introduction to Eisenman's James, the Brother of Jesus; tables comparing Jesus' brothers and sisters to the disciples; a table comparing the disciples in various scriptures, and pointing out the unexpected number of Zealots in the core group; an overview of non-canonical texts, a forum, and some great links. Yet another original reconstruction of Josephus' passage mentioning Jesus, called the 'Testimonium Flavium', is planned for the near future.

- The Rogue Bible Scholar

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