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Christian Texts and History • Re: 'Cult of the Good'
References to ἀγαθοῦ are distinct.But I'm not interested in every reference to 'Good' -- I'm only interested in all the circumstantial evidence which might support Philo's point. I'm not even...
View ArticleGeneral Religious Discussion • Re: Space is the Place.
Redux.You get a Song, Giuseppe: iframe Statistics: Posted by billd89 — Sun Feb 04, 2024 7:17 am
View ArticleGeneral Religious Discussion • Sucks to Yer Aunty: Bing AI Image Generator is...
Query: Paraphrasing John Arnott MacCulloch, "The Gnostic Conception of the Cross," in Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Vol. 1 [1918], pp.103-6: what does the Valentinian Stauros...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Middle Recension of Ignatius is a...
This is interesting. But I don't read German. What are the details here? Does anyone have an English version of this, or some other English sources that address this subject?Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Ihsous Xreistos
References to ἀγαθοῦ are distinct.But I'm not interested in every reference to 'Good' -- I'm only interested in all the circumstantial evidence which might support Philo's point. I'm not even...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 'the Socratic Good'
Perhaps Philo referred to a First Century philosophical tendency derivative from Plato/Socrates, c.390 BC ?Joseph J. Cimakasky's diss. [2014] "All of a Sudden: The Role of Ἐξαίφνης in Plato's...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: John the Baptist, redivivus of a 2015 article
Okaaaay, I'm trying to figure out what you see as having been the sequence of events... This is my attempt at summarising what you believe about this:1. A forger rewrote Ant. Book 18, including, among...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
The „seditious material“ is not found in deeper archaeological layers of the text, but is found at the "final editing stage", as source critics would say. Carrier demonstrated this very well for the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: KJV Tampering as a precursor to Sinaiaticus...
re: Steven Avery, Sun Feb 04, 2024 6:30 pmYour proposal has not been "ignored" in "sensible scholarship."For example, a fine textual scholar, Tommy Wasserman, already responded to and countered your...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Matthew and Luke are Forgeries of Mark. Were...
There is a notable poster here at the forum who necessarily equates "bad character" with forgery and any beliefs and activities at this forum by posters he disagree with. But is that necessarily true?...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: any proposed cult of "Jesus the...
No, that wasn't my point. Merely that we have a better example than the FSM (which was an outright parody, you know: never a real cult.) The Bible shows that Jesus called himself "The Good Shepherd",...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • 1 Samuel 16:12 explains the titulus crucis in...
1 Samuel 16:12:So he sent for him and had him brought in. He was glowing with health and had a fine appearance and handsome features. Then the LORD said, “Rise and anoint him; this is the one.”Above...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Matthew and Luke are Forgeries of Mark....
The first thing to understand is that this type of fraud was very commonplace, especially with religious literature. This was also true of Sibylline literature, Orphic literature, even works of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
Lefebvre, IGChrEg 64 = Milne, Cairo Mus. 32,9273 = OGIS 722 = SEG 24:1194 (ca. 374)[τ]ο̣υ π̣αντ̣[οκ]ρ̣[ατ]ο̣ρ̣ο̣ς̣ θεου θελησαντος καιτου Χριστου αυτου επι της πανευδαιμονοςβασιλειας των τα παντα...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The end of the seditious Jesus hypothesis
I disagree with the "crucified in space" position myself, but that's not really what this post by Carrier was about. The real issue here is about interpreting the Gospel narratives as literal history...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Bermejo-Rubio and the Titulus Crucis...
I searched for a midrashical reason (or in alternative a theological reason) for the presence of the titulus crucis. For example, the following point:Pontius Pilate examining Jesus and asking him:...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: Herculaneum Update
I am sure anything I say will be vilified by you but here's my observation. Many of the texts are supposed to be from an Epicurean library. These were good times for the Roman Empire. Epicureanism is...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • How Do People Believe They Are Infallible in...
Some people pick on people at the forum. I despise Pete's posting about Constantine. But I will readily admit I don't have a clue what early Christianity was all about. How about those people who...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Forget the Myth of Jesus
..........................c/ Acts may date from the very beginning of the second century, but this would not prima-facie make it of no historical value for mid first century events. IMO Acts is too...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: How Do People Believe They Are Infallible...
People mistake "studying for a test" with actual knowledge. An MBA student may get a perfect score on how to run a business but someone who has run a business might not have the latest "know how" but...
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