Christian Texts and History • Cephas
Cephas:In the New Testament gospels, for safety reasons Cephas is shown in the place of Peter as a Christian sect authority, so that the sect leader is not positively identified as Peter.John 1:42And...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 'The Letters of Paul in their Roman...
Richard Carrier:Procuring the Livesey Book on PaulFrom queries I have received so far, it is clear the new Nina Livesey book, The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context: Reassessing Apostolic...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Identities Verification.
Those are all fictional persons; so identification is pointless.When Erasmus released his edition of the collected works of the church father Jerome, he devoted an entire volume to those that he...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Schmidt on the Testimonium Flavianum
TF-wise, I am currently not in the Josephus-over-all camp, nor in the Eusebius-over-all camp.But, to try to be fair, imputing circularity or dogmatism to a book not yet published by OUP would be...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • On the defensibility of Lukan relative priority
Acts 6:7 says:that “a large number of priests became obedient to the faith” (Acts 6:7)If this is viewed as something that emphasizes the purposes of the author, there are at least a couple different...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Do you think the Adamantius dialogue has...
Can anyone provide a single example where they think De Recta in Deum Fide preserves a variant from Marcion's gospel?If the text quoted can be found in e.g. the canonical gospels, then that is not an...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Cultural contexts and the production of...
Here is a very rough chart attempting to represent the cultural contexts in which various pre-Christian theological ideas were written, those which fed into the context for the production of Christian...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Cultural contexts and the production of...
Here is a little simple discussion with ChatGPT on Wisdom to supply some background on that area of cultural context:What is the relationship between Greek logos and Hebrew hokmah?The concepts of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On the indefensibility of the Lukan priority
Thus, Luke-Acts reads partly like a defense of the point of view that Gentiles didn't need to follow all parts of the law, against the criticism of Jews and/or perhaps some Jewish Christians,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Parvus on Cerdo and the Pauline letters
If Cerdonism has to replace Marcionism, it is a distinction without a real difference:Both went to Rome (probably after Bar-Kokhba);both fabricated gospel and letters;The only difference for Roger is...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Paul & Mark on James (the Pillar and...
It could be that the traditional interpretation of Galatians 2:9 overlooks the fact that Paul compares James, Cephas, and John to pillars, and - in relation to this metaphor - that the second pillar,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On the defensibility of Lukan relative...
Acts 6:7 says:that “a large number of priests became obedient to the faith” (Acts 6:7)If this is viewed as something that emphasizes the purposes of the author, there are at least a couple different...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: AI on the difference between Cerdo and Marcion
Yes, here are primary sources explicitly describing Cerdo as a teacher or as someone who "taught" his doctrines: ### 1. **Irenaeus of Lyons, *Against Heresies* 1.27.1 (Latin translation of lost Greek...
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Christian Texts and History • This is hilarious! Cerdo!
.There are hundreds of posts about Marcion here every day!Trobey, Vinzey, Klinghey and Livesey write books with thousands of pages about Marcion!And then they all didn't do their...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: This is hilarious! Cerdo!
People tend to write about topics they find material on, even if that may neglect the actually important stuff.Although I guess you heard that already.Statistics: Posted by Ulan — Tue Feb 11, 2025...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Markan Marcion: A Contrarian Synopsis
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 know if the word "appeared" is used at the beginning of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Using ChatGPT
ChatGPT You said:Sebastian Moll, in his book, The Arch Heretic Marcion, wrote that Marcion had an Evil God and a Good God dualisn. Later followers added a Just God to his system. Is Moll correct in...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Paul's text in the context of the Marcionites
Galatians (part 1)Πρὸς Γαλατας1:1 Παῦλος ἀπόστολος οὐκ ἀπ᾽ ἀνθρώπων οὐδὲ δι᾽ ἀνθρώπουἀλλὰ διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ ἐγείραντος αὐτόν ἐκ νεkρῶν,1:2 καὶ οἱ σὺν ἐμοὶ πάντες ἀδελφοί ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις τῆς...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
But even when writing to Christians in Rome, Paul uses the "Jews" and "Greeks" categories (1:16: "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Paul & Mark on James (the Pillar and...
And so, according to you, Acts 15 is a historical record that just happens not to talk about James belonging to the circumcision party and just happens not to talk about the people sent by James from...
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