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Considering crucifixion victims were executed without clothing, did early crucifixes of Christ depict him without the loin cloth? If so, when was the loin cloth introduced?
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From a purely academic vantage is the Quran's depiction of Jesus as historically accurate as the Gospels - would a historian factor in the Quran when trying to investigate the "historical Jesus"?
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In the movie The Last Temptation of Christ, Jesus is seen making crosses for Roman crucifixions - did Romans task peasant carpenters with this type of work? What work did a first century Palestinian carpenter engage in?
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The Catholic Church claims the papacy was a facet of the early Church, with Peter chief among the apostles, and that apostolic succession set forth a lineage of popes, bishops, and priests tracing back to the early apostles - how much of this is verifiable historical fact?
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Is there any truth to the claim that Christianity introduced charity as a virtue, whereas the Hellenistic world saw it as a weakness?
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In a culture which arranged marriages for Jewish men at around 18 years of age, was it considered abnormal for Jesus to have lived 30 years or so without marrying and raising a family?
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My former professor once said that, prior to colonization, Native Americans had no sense of private property and believed all tribes collectively owned their homeland--to what extent is this true?
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Paul mentions that he met with Peter and James the brother of Jesus in Jerusalem - was this a fabrication Paul used to bolster his status in the early Church or is there good reason to believe he directly knew Jesus's immediate disciples?
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