Christian Texts and History • Tischendorf - 1844 theft from St. Catherine's
Note that Tischendorf went directly to Constantius after he stole the 43 leaves in 1844, likely he had been told that the manuscript had gotten to Sinai from Constantinople. A trip there could help...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
If this is the only occurrence of the compound term in Philo, then it seems Blavatsky was paraphrasing and expanding what Philo wrote. In the Embassy to Gaius (210), Philo writes of λόγια "θεόχρηστα",...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Tischendorf - more 1844 theft discovered recently
the 1844 CFA theft by Tischendorfhttps://www.purebibleforum.com/index.ph ... dorf.3037/To be clear, I am allowing the possibility of monastery-Tischendorf collusion in the theft, or a wink-wink from...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Word According To GMarp. What is the...
Firstly, I think that canonical Mark is a lightly revised version of an earlier Gospel, which we can call proto-Mark (although I don't really like that name). The purpose of proto-Mark is to set the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The origin of the Jesus' compassion
"Behold, Father, she wanders the earth pursued by evil. Far from thy Breath she is going astray. She is trying to flee bitter Chaos, and does not know how she is to escape. Send me forth, O Father,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The end of the seditious Jesus hypothesis
Richard Carrier has really overcome himself with the following article:https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/27035He claims to explain, in the same time and with the same midrashical key, the two...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The wink-wink must have come from the...
the 1844 CFA theft by Tischendorfhttps://www.purebibleforum.com/index.ph ... dorf.3037/To be clear, I am allowing the possibility of monastery-Tischendorf collusion in the theft, or a wink-wink from...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The end of the seditious Jesus hypothesis
Richard Carrier has really overcome himself with the following article:https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/27035He claims to explain, in the same time and with the same midrashical key, the two...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: KJV Tampering as a precursor to Sinaiaticus...
That the Vatican and the Patriarch, in that era, in that manner, as speculated above, besides lacking evidence, is improbable.And, perhaps, speculation influenced by prior views--though two differing...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Authenticity of Philemon
why do i have this mental image of you editing a single A4 page?!Statistics: Posted by davidmartin — Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:33 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Trying to do on Mark what a PRESUMED editor...
A such editor would have:1) ...searched for the first occurrence of Capernaum in Mark. They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue(Mark 1:21)2) ...removed the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: I'll be reading the Gospels of Thomas,...
You seem so keen to sell them to someone interested in the early Christian canon on the D$$. Disclaimer: because of their longtime pushing of the Essene Community fraud, if the forum allows users to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Paul as a Herodian?
Though I was not the first to propose it (it appears in scholarship at least as early as 1532), the name Essenes goes back through several Greek spellings to the Hebrew root 'asah.And some Dead Sea...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: English Translations: Bauer, Turmel, Volkmar,...
Thank you for this!Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Fri Feb 02, 2024 7:11 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Any proposed 'Cult of the Good' evidence?
Who or what Deity was 'The Good' (concept) which Philo is tacitly belittling at DVC 2?What were Followers of 'The Good' theosophy called, as Jewish heretics, in the First Century Diaspora? By (my...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Priority of Luke over Marcion's Gospel
The standard text of Luke 22:17-20 reads 17 He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, “Take this, and share it among yourselves, 18 for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Priority of Luke over Marcion's Gospel
I doubt that the Eucharist is found in Marcion. Joseph Turmel made a case for it being an anti-marcionite interpolation in Paul, based on the fact that Jesus is claiming a body (and a blood) identical...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Forget the Myth of Jesus
a/ I think the importance of Jerusalem as an early center of Christianity can be argued from the letters of Paul e.g. Galatians. (I am not really interested in discussing whether Galatians etc have...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The X-Files: Chrestos / Christos / Χρειστος
ReferencesBooksChrestos: a religious epithet; its import and influencehttps://archive.org/details/chrestosareligi00mitcgoog/χρηστός (Chrestos) - "ethical, righteous, good, just, upright,...
View ArticleGeneral Religious Discussion • Re: Absence of images of Jesus crucified in...
Let me Google that for you: (Copyrighted images, I am lazy, or both, you must go look).Don't you realize that all the examples given by you have to be classified as mere satirical images?I would save...
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