For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus

[Confused Ape]

It would be "Aha! A horse!" ("soos" is a male horse.)

Although tranliterating and then turning into Hebrew does not really work. And context is always important.

I love the idea of a Messiah called Aha-a-horse, though.

"Bulbul" in Hebrew means penis.

I'm currently amusing myself by going through church histories trying to figure out who forged what and when. I'm writing my ideas out but I won't post them until I've read everything through a dozen times to make sure it all works.

For example, Marcion forged Paul's epistle to the Philippians and refers to Clement as if everyone should have known who he was. Was this added in during the time when Tertullian said Marcion had mutilated Paul's letters? Did Clement write First Clement? If he didn't somebody forged it but who and why? If Clement hadn't existed it would require forging records to say he'd existed as well. Why go to all that trouble if you could just pick a bishop from the right time period who wasn't known for writing a lot of books and manuscripts?

Even Eusebius doubted that Second Clement was authentic. He also knew about some of the Pseudo-Clementine writings because in his Church History he said "And certain men have lately brought forward other wordy and lengthy writings under his name, containing dialogues of Peter and Apion. But no mention has been made of these by the ancients; for they do not even preserve the pure stamp of apostolic orthodoxy. The acknowledged writing of Clement is well known."

This indicates that forgers had to be very careful even in those days if they hoped to fool people.