Christian Texts and History • Re: Priority of Luke over Marcion's Gospel
Lk 22:19-20 is found in Sy-P, L32, two Sahidic mss, and one Bohairic ms (a bread-cup sequence), which also happens to be close to the presentation given by Justin Martyr (in the choice of elements and...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Historicity of Acts
Quoting this here to allow a discussion on the historicity of Acts to continue here:c/ Acts may date from the very beginning of the second century, but this would not prima-facie make it of no...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Forgery of Acts
continued from:This thread has been joined together, again. The original posts are now here to limit confusion and preserve the chronological order of those posts. For those who are willing and able...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Did Josephus say that Jesus was called...
I know nothing about this topic and have no expertise to offer. But here are the facts as I see them:1. an "anointed one" would have struck the ears of Greeks as unusual and would have required some...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: διῆλθεν εὐεργετῶν (Acts 10:38) as a...
The reason I can't interpret the first gospel (beyond of what it was) as an allegory of Israel (et similia) is that the notion of a "descent benefiting" (ending obviously with a celestial death)...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Forget the Myth of Jesus
Basically whatever I add to my own discussion is removed. IJBOL. I am getting the message. I will stay out of that discussion. Happy to help the forum in whatever way I can.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
Seems like a whole lot of work to state the obvious, like studies about how getting more sleep leads to being less tired. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure ... berry_FinnStory about a slave boy...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Marqe is Now Dated to the Third Century CE
Laura S. Lieber ( who assisted me with this note ) , “ No Translating Needed : Hebrew in Two Samaritan Aramaic Hymns , ” in The Poet and the World : Festschrift for Wout van Bekkum on the Occasion of...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: the spackler has fallen on his sword?
https://abcnews.go.com/International/co ... =106892273Egypt is insecure, they'll roll it back.Statistics: Posted by billd89 — Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:53 am
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Classical Texts and History • Re: Re-Creating, Rebuilding Stuff
I'm cool w/ this:https://apnews.com/article/italy-rome-c ... cdcc80c7a2I first saw the bits in person, way back in mid-July 1982:Statistics: Posted by billd89 — Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:54 am
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: Epicureanism
Epicureanism was agnostic or atheist; it was also hedonist. Monastic scribes would have rejected (most) Epicurean ideas, on principle.'What is preserved' is less than 1% of what was written, therefore...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: Herculaneum Update
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-mu ... oll-2024-2Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:26 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Forget the Myth of Jesus
I'm quite confident that the first person parts of Acts come from an earlier source. The only real challenge I face is addressing how knowledge of this earlier source was lost. I don't think this is...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: hootleuton studies
Houghton (2011) on Scribal HabitsNazaroohttp://homoioteleuton.blogspot.com/2011 ... abits.html‘Houghton also notes the findings of Schmidt and Holmes, regarding the unlikelihood of coincidental but...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Historicity of Acts
Published about 10 years after Roman Society and Law in the NT (= his 1960-61 lectures that first appeared in 1963) was Sherwin-Whitles second edition of The Roman Citizenship.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: ...caught in denying the existence of the...
This is not 'mythicism' in any normal sense. it is mythicism insofar a denial of the existence of the Son is also meant to implicate Jesus. See a similar point here:However, I'm struck again by some...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: KJV Tampering as a precursor to Sinaiaticus...
That note from Nazaroo does not apply to the Sinaiticus homoeoteleuton sunder examination.Statistics: Posted by Steven Avery — Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:01 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Making sense of the Pauline Epistles
Polycarp, Ignatius, and Papias are done, but there's a long way to go.Maybe put them up as you go along: I'd like to see them, and you may get some good feedback.I'd love ti see the Polycarp,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Bermejo-Rubio and the Titulus Crucis...
Thanks. Are you actually disappointed when you receive friendly rejections regarding Marcionite priority from such scholars? you see blindly 'friendly rejections' where I may see 'hypocritical...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Jesus is not the Christ: A Reading of Mark
Of course the gospel can be performed as if Mark's Jesus is not the Christ. Richard III can be performed as if the king were the heroic victim of treason. OK - that would be the Stormfront Players...
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