Christian Texts and History • Re: The Tale Wagging The Dogma. Which...
Some things we know about the redactor:1) Added a mission to the gentiles, which seems to be fabricated for multiple reasons2) Seemed to lack knowledge about Galilee and surrounds.3) Not well versed...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: implications of the Mark's identity naked...
Mark undoubtedly cut the ending short. I think Luke is closest to the original. However Luke 24:13 an on seem like later addition. I believe that Matthew was copying Mark until Mark's end. Where...
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Christian Texts and History • Theory - first Christians were polytheistic
I have a pet theory which may be somewhat controversial. Please be gentle with me as I'm not an academic but simply an ex Christian and interested in early Christian texts and history. This is just a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A strong clue that Mark 1:7 comes after...
1) The arguments become weaker and weaker. Eysinga simply substitutes his own interpretation of strongness for the one given by John the Baptist in GMark himself.Mark 1:8 I have baptized you with...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Matthew 5:17 "I have come" ==...
The Davidic Messiah has to be born in order to do something.See the Catholic interpolation in Gal 4:4: But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born by womanWithout "born by woman", the default...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: “Blessed are the poor in spirit” is a...
the "ancient ones" seems to me a more generic term than "our fathers". A really close relationship between the author and the Jewish roots would have obliged him to use "our fathers" rather than a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Clement in Venice
Andrew's comment raises the possibility that the 1683 catalogue might refer to the second hymn above as if a genuine work of Clement.Not by Morton Smith, of course, but relevant to the question of...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: a claim about the defeat & death of Josiah
Josiah at Megiddo: New Evidence from the FieldIsrael Finkelstein, Matthew J. Adams, Alexander Fantalkin & Assaf KleimanScandinavian Journal of the Old TestamentPublished online: 28 Jan...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Marcion believed Jesus was...
Highlighting added:Marcion thought that Jesus took the form of a man with flesh and bones during the time of Pontius Pilate. That's why the subject of Jesus being a phantom is not present in...
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Christian Texts and History • Stylometry results
Hi All, I'm reading Britt and Wingo's book and find their computer driven stylometry results fascinating. It's great however think they perhaps bring in too much of their personal opinions, but the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What Josephus Meant When He Identified the...
Tertullian refuses to allow Apelles to appeal that the angels who visited Abraham and Lot in Genesis 18–19 were similarly possessed of sideral (elsewhere ' elemental ' ) flesh , arguing from the...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Stylometry results
Hi All, I'm reading Britt and Wingo's book and find their computer driven stylometry results fascinating. It's great however think they perhaps bring in too much of their personal opinions, but the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re:‘computational stylistics’
There is a Review here that looks interesting.https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-revi ... 7OSL8Y9H4R That review cites and provides some excerpts from James Libby's 2015 PhD thesis dissertation,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Using ChatGPT
ChatGPTNew Testament scholars spend much time and argument over the dating of the Gospels and epistles. But, at the end of the day, is not dating manuscripts secondary to the story they contain. Many...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: burial shroud, used
And on the existence of a mystery surrounding the σινδών of Jesus. Origen notes that Heracleon:says that the whip, as well as the linen and the shroud (καὶ τὸ λίνον καὶ τὴν σινδόνα), and all such...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Case of the Purloined Apostle
"The Case of the Purloined Apostle: Was the Beloved Disciple of the Fourth Gospel the Apostle Andrew?" by Gregory Doudna, Journal of the Orthodox Center for the Advancement of Biblical Studies 12/1...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Case of the Purloined Apostle
Fascinating!re John 1:35,37, pp. 3-4,John 1:35-42. Andrew the first disciple of JesusJohn was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Clement in Venice
As well as the well known hymn by Clement at the end of the Paedagogus the manuscripts have a second hymn Modern scholars regard it as a medieval imitation of Clement but a manuscript with both these...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Clement in Amsterdam
On attitudes to Clement c 1700 one should probably note LE GNOSTIQUE DE SAINT CLÉMENT D’ALEXANDRIE an unpublished work of Bishop Fenelon, using Clement to argue controversially for a secret Christian...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Most Manuscripts are not Primary Sources
Obviously the biblical texts were far more important (for preservation purposes) to the church but this does not explain why we have zero church preserved heresiological texts until very late. Is this...
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