Christian Texts and History • Re: Patrologia Graeca OCR
It might also imply that Marcionism was a reaction against the pre-existent "son of David" community. I don't know.Hopefully better access to the texts will help your studies.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is Neil Godfrey misinterpreting and...
Finally Godfrey recognizes that he is wrong on the previous point. Alas the great confession:NL does not discuss Simon Magus or the Simonians. The view of Markus Vinzent is that Marcion produced the...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: The Multi-Source Hypothesis shared by...
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View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Shelly Matthews on Acts’ story of Stephen’s...
Shelley Matthews in "[the] Introduction" of Perfect Martyr: The Stoning of Stephen and the Construction of Christian Identity, OUP, 2010Thanks MrMacSon, that seems quite interesting.Statistics: Posted...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Gary Greenberg argues for a proto-gospel
In his book, The Case for a Proto-Gospel. Recovering the Common Written Source Behind Mark and John (New York: Peter Lang, 2020), Gary Greenberg argues for a high degree of probability that Mark and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Does your interpretation of probability...
A more recent comment also emphasizes facts:Historians on each of the warring sides will pull out from their research sure and certain “facts” that happened and that support their particular argument....
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: Philostratus' 'Life of Apollonius of Tyana'
It's very similar to the statement "extinguished the sins" of men. I haven't checked the Greek.Statistics: Posted by Leucius Charinus — Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:37 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Answering to a Roger Parvus's question...
This is forever the obstacle for all the heirs of Ferdinand Christian Baur (i.e. the people who cry "Freedom for Paul!"): Without sufficient methodological rigor, this scholarship falsely reifies Paul...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 'The Letters of Paul in their Roman...
This is definitely the best, comprehensive presentation of the problem of the authenticity of the Pauline Corpus.Tag: "Letters of Paul in Their Roman Literary Context" VridarPaul’s Letters as Second...
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Christian Texts and History • A Pre-Markan Gospel with Fire
Ben Smith responded to this with "I agree":Cyprian (or pseudo-Cyprian), On Rebaptism 100.17: 17 There is a concocted book which is inscribed as the Preaching of Paul, in which book, against all the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Marcion's tentacles: Simul stabunt vel...
A victim in all of this is the non-Marcionite 'heretical' traditionI see Marcion as the leader of a coalition of anti-demiurgist sects. So now they can't even exist without being subsumed into a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Even the heretics ignored Mark
If Mark was heretical why would someone tell us that? Who is this truth teller from among the Church Fathers to side against John and Papias on Mark? What Papias reports from John is enough to know...
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Christian Texts and History • Not Close And No Cigar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfirxs_NUcEBen Smith responded to this with "I agree":Cyprian (or pseudo-Cyprian), On Rebaptism 100.17: 17 There is a concocted book which is inscribed as the Preaching...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Even Mark Has His Price
The title alone, "the Preaching of Paul", suggests a writing after all the Synoptic Gospels. So does Peter and Paul being in Rome together.I didn't say that The Preaching of Paul was pre-Synoptic. Yet...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Vinzent's arguments in part for versions of the...
Vinzent relies in part on one of the so-called ‘anti-Marcionite Prologues, noting the one with John which can be read on its own as Incipit argumentum secundum Iohannem in Vat. Reg. lat. 14 (R). Both...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Also Evan Powell sees in Mark traces of...
The dove is seen only by Jesus ("he saw...", i.e., only Jesus), while the voice is presumably heard by all by default.By default? Is that the reason why nobody reacts?Statistics: Posted by Ulan — Mon...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Why Mark added “such as no FULLER on earth...
*Ev 9:29: And while he prayed, it happened: the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white.Mark’s adaptation of the scene preserves this setting as well as the description...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A Pre-Markan Gospel with Fire
This shows that *Ev was the first before MarkNo, it shows you have constructed a narrative in which you have decided to put *Ev first.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Mon Jan 27, 2025 10:56 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Why Mark added “such as no FULLER on earth...
This supports *Ev's prority over Mark.Why? You say that about anything and everything.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Mon Jan 27, 2025 10:59 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Severing "Upon" (Mark 1:10)
Cumulative Weight of Early Witness for Difficult ReadingDifficult Reading Witness Quality Witness Against Defense Against Significant Difference?Mark 1:10 and the Spirit as a dove descending into him:...
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