Jewish Texts and History • Re: On Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and merging El and...
a less-than six minute video iframe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwGPgnjsUfsThat guy has crazier eyes than even my overbearing lecturing waggly finger Avatar "Paul" does.DCHStatistics: Posted by...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Herculaneum etc. update
Today I attended an excellent presentation by Richard Janko (U. Michigan) at Duke U.As you likely know, new methods have been able, slowly, to begin to read, partially, papyrus scrolls covered and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Gospel of Thomas Alexandrian ?
David Litwa has published a paper arguing that the Gospel of Thomas was originally written in Alexandria. See https://mdavidlitwa.com/2024/04/18/gosp ... lexandria/ I'm not sure whether or not he is...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Chrissy Hansen's "Reception of the...
Hansen's paper, "Reception of the Testimonium Flavianum: An Evaluation of the Independent Witnesses to Josephus’ Testimonium Flavianum," https://unk.academia.edu/ChrissyHansen Hansen argues that...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: New mythicist book by N.P. Allen: The Jesus...
But what does this Allen guy have to say about Paul? Table of Contents ..Acknowledgements and Disclaimers ..Figures and Tables ..Abbreviations ..CHAPTER ONE: Introduction .....1.1 Raisons d’Ȇtre...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Gospel of Thomas Alexandrian ?
What he shared online seems to focus on instances where "the earliest documented use of Thomas was in Alexandria," etc. Even if we know that, it does not tell us where the Gospel of Thomas was...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Pagels: the Gospel of Truth Depicts Paul’s...
Elaine Pagels (2024) How the Gospel of Truth Depicts Paul’s Secret Teaching: A Study in Second-Century Reception History Harvard Theological Review 117:1, 99-12 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Pagels: the Gospel of Truth Depicts Paul’s...
Sounds reasonable to me.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Tue Feb 25, 2025 4:31 pm
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Jewish Texts and History • Re: Djed Pillar
Nine or Ten Levels?Amulet depicting the djed pillarThis amulet was discovered in the tomb of Queen Nefertari (QV66) in the Valley of the Queens and dates back to the New Kingdom, specifically the 19th...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Using ChatGPT
ChatGPTThe writer of the above quote replied: ...Those responses were not very helpful because the LLMs didn't know the answer.I can help because I do.(1) I do consider 'classical mythicism' to be...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Anti-Demiurgist Parable of the Sower...
In the Naassene (Anti-Demiurgist) Parable of the Sower, there are 3 possible fates: The sower went forth to sow. (1) And some fell by the wayside, and was trodden down; (2) and some on the rocky...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Why Matthew 5:45 has been removed from...
Note also this curious feature of the Anti-Demiurgist Gospel: Why do you say that am good? One is good, my Father which is in the heavens, who causes His sun to rise upon the just and unjust, and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Anti-Demiurgist Parable of the Sower...
On dating which is older, this is not proof.Statistics: Posted by StephenGoranson — Wed Feb 26, 2025 10:35 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Metatron and Jesus
(Aboth de Rabbi Nathan 21) says: May our prayer rise before the throne of the Shekinah, before its shell Metatron, before Joshua, the prince of the Presence.I am translating: please give a better...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
But the Pharisees approved of niece marriage and easy divorce, two of the big things that CD condemns.Divorce is not explicitly condemned in CD and it is debatable if Qumran condemned divorce in...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Doe Mark as Pauline and the least Torah...
[31:00]I think Mark's very Pauline [and the least Torah insistent gospel]...--"Writing and Rewriting the Gospels: John and the Synoptics | Dr. James W. Barker". YouTube. @History-Valley. 6 January...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Doe Mark as Pauline and the least Torah...
If Mark talks about secret teaching, then can the silence of Mark on a topic indicate that Mark didn't support that teaching? In other words, does it make the most sense to view Mark as a complete...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: The Menorah as dd-pillar
Hey, guess what I just came across. There's this inscription getting a little attention for allegedly - supposed to be the first ancient north Arabian attestation of biblical Midian. Above the text...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Why there is Docetism in *Ev 4:30 (and...
In *Ev 4:30 I do not recognize a distinction between docetic and miraculous or supernatural. The miracle being described is: docetism.Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Fri Feb 28, 2025 10:15 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Schmidt on the Testimonium Flavianum
A Dave Allen's comment explaining probably why Schmidt thinks that Josephus knew personally the Sadduceans behind Pilate:Schmidt is right to say that when Josephus says “first men among us” he would...
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