Christian Texts and History • Re: Luke 7:18
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.Of course it is. The audience deserves someone to finally provide...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: Athenian Greek-Phoenician inscriptions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_Ger ... nscription L’DN L’ŠMN M’RḤ M-ZBḤ NḤŠT MŠQL LṬRM M’T Y. ’Š NDR ’KLYN Š’SGM ’Š B MMLHT. ŠM[῾] [Q]L’ RPY’. BŠT ŠPṬM ḤMLKT W῾BD’ŠMN BN ḤMLN. "To Lord...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Marcion was a source critic
I understand that you have implied in the past that this idea is beyond your range of amiable scholarly disagreement.True. I thought (and think still now) that a reasonable position, one worthy of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Does your interpretation of probability...
I hold no brief from Carrier, of course. Nor from Neil.It is altogether commonplace for Bayesians to claim that Bayesian methods are normative for all occasions of uncertain reasoning. If asked about...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Markan Marcion: A Contrarian Synopsis
An additional relevant consideration has surfaced here:page 277: https://www.tertullian.org/articles/eva ... k4_eng.htm"It is no matter if somewhere the word 'appeared' is used."Tertullian doesn't...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Using ChatGPT
Free Deepseek with both "DeepThink (R1)" and "Search" enabled is freaky good.Prompt:The Greek name Μαρκίων from Μᾶρκος, where there is an iota being inserted inbetween Μαρκ- and -ών, indicates the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What motivated the author of the...
What do people think motivated the author of the "Laughing Jesus" - one who did not die on the cross? Was the author rejecting the NT crucifixion? What type of Christian would do such a thing?Maybe...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What is purely Markan is Anti-Marcionite
If I limit myself to what is purely 100% Markan I see that anti-marcionism is in action. The episode of the Syro-Phoenician woman: obviously against radical gentilizers and Marcion was one.Neither...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: New Apocryphon of James Commentary: Samuel...
In his fresh (Aug. ’24) critical commentary on The Apocryphon of James (Nag Hammadi)Thanks.The Apocryphon of James is one of the more interesting texts. This should be a welcome study.Statistics:...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is Neil Godfrey misinterpreting and...
Errare humanum est, perseverare autem Neil.Godfrey seems to make the same previous error distorting the Livesey's book :For Marcion, Paul was the only apostle who truly understood the gospel of the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Why I am justified to use the Marcion's knife...
Then prove that *Ev // Mark needed to know each other directly I thought (and still think) that this has been proved by Vinzent's argument that the Gospels were written all in the same place, all in...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Doesn't the Orthodox Understanding of...
What I mean by this is: 1. we have a history from the canonical gospels and Acts. 2. it is a supernatural history. 3. the orthodox tradition didn't allow any other models to survive (THERE WERE OTHERS...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Answering to a Roger Parvus's question...
I see that Roger raises two objections:1) there is no simplicity in the letters;2) is a school necessary to publish? Implicit: there was none Marcion's school.I notice NL’s quote from Balas:...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • e: Athenian Greek-Phoenician inscriptions
Her name is written 𐤀𐤎𐤐𐤕 where as Asaphim is 𐤀𐤔𐤐𐤉𐤌 (θεσπιστές) 'Prophets' cf. θεσπίζω 'to declare by oracle, prophesy.Statistics: Posted by Ethan — Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:15 am
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Evagoras & Esther
Isocrates, Evagoras 9.26While he preserved for Evagoras those means whereby it was possible for him to gain the rule in accordance with piety and justice. For one of the princes, starting a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Why I am justified to use the Marcion's...
"Have you heard the good news about our Lord and Savior, Marcion?"And then you crucify him, because he isn't true to his own alleged message.Why does your justification sound like a statement of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Doesn't the Orthodox Understanding of...
That sounds like a good question and is not one of those Marcion nonsense.Statistics: Posted by Kunigunde Kreuzerin — Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:26 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Does your interpretation of probability...
Which does seem to discuss hypotheses and distinguish their nature, separately, from the nature of sources of evidence, much along the same lines that you describe (although this passage could be more...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Various Quotes
For example, Matthew has to invent a new apologetic for the empty tomb because no one had ever heard of such a thing before Mark invented it; otherwise, Mark would have had to have done what Matthew...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: Athenian Greek-Phoenician inscriptions
Diopeithes of Sidon = Shema'ba'al son of MagonThe name Diopeithes (Διοπείθης) is exchanged with 𐤔𐤌𐤏𐤁𐤏𐤋 so that the component -πείθης equates with the affix 𐤔𐤌𐤏and the component -πείθης, a form of...
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