Christian Texts and History • Re: Authenticity of Philemon
Schwab, Günther. Echtheitskritische Untersuchungen zu den vier kleinen Paulusbriefen. Band I: Halbband A. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011. [pp. 87–199 argues that Philemon is entirely inauthentic...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
Sorry, this guy's work is less than worthless. Its all laughable. Illogical, baseless, apriori assumptions. What a joke. Just look at his stupid arguments. He is simply taking these texts at face...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Martyrium Ignatii account
See Martyrdom of Ignatius In its present form this is a late work of little historical value. Andrew CriddleStatistics: Posted by andrewcriddle — Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:36 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Jesus is not the Christ: A Reading of Mark
IF you're trying to save the priority of Mark,WHY would you not interpret Mark,THE PRIOR GOSPEL,as being "anti-messianic in an innocent way"?(i.e., having no such intention but being read that way...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Intrinsic stupidity of the common objection...
Note 72:To be clear, my point is not that 1 Cor. 2:6–16 influenced the Valentinians, but that the Valentinians “influenced” Paul. Yet this was not only true of the Valentinians. “Paul” (or better,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: the black hole of Sinaiticus scholarship...
"Sinaiticus scholarship," if you are familiar with it, misled many scholars, precisely in your view, how?The main problem was that it quickly had an established date of 4th century, without examining...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Justin's Two Advents of Christ and the...
maybe only the true Messiah would deny he is the Messiah and this is how to tell him apart from the false onessince Jesus denies it, he is the Messiahwhere 1 John's opponents went wrong then is by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Early Christian Ebionaen Canon
That Text Excavation link will be as dead as a doornail, I'm afraid. I think Ben just had all he could take of the chaos and sometimes abusive comments he was getting (you know who you were ... no,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Bermejo-Rubio and the Titulus Crucis...
Your sentence was a non-sequitur, regardless of B-R.Statistics: Posted by StephenGoranson — Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:56 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Reading the Paulines with Good instead of...
It could make sense to substitute "Messiah" (not anointed). That could prime the reader to think more of the pre-Christian meanings.What would a Greek speaking pagan have made of the word "Christos",...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Mark's use of Philo
Well said.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:23 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Wolfson, 1937
René Bloch, "Bringing Philo Home: Responses to Harry A. Wolfson’s Philo (1947) in the Aftermath of World War II" (Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2023)...It is not clear when...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
In an account of Philo (In Flaccum 6.36–41), which is often cited in the interpretations of Mark, the pagan populace of Alexandria dressed up a certain Carabas as a mock king, and “young men carrying...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
Among the oldest manuscripts of texts by Manichaeans (ca. 4th century), one found at Kellis begins:"I Mani, the Apostle of [Je]su[s] Chrestos and all the other brethren that are with me ... Peace...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Anointed as a verb with Jesus as its object...
It would seem difficult to argue for the likelihood that the nomen sacrum XU overline meant something other than Christou in this case.Yes, very convincing.Statistics: Posted by Kunigunde Kreuzerin —...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Ancient biographies and letter collections
I'm looking for resources on ancient biographies and letter collections associated with lesser known people. I'm looking to draw some comparisons to the Pauline letters and accounts of Paul's...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Can someone explain me this rebus?
from page 131 of this book:Gewisse ideographische Schreibmungen in der babylonischen Keilschrift sind oft schwer zu enträtseln; aber wenn die Lesung gegeben wird, sieht jeder Keilschriftkundige...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Lost Lachmann demonstration re Mark 1:2-3
I might add a point about the potential relevance of the argument that Mark 1:2-3 were not part of the original text. In the view of Raschke, without those two verses the door to an entirely different...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: What did Luke's "eyewitnesses" see?
It's been a long time since I visited any other scholarly forums --- Can anyone suggest a likely place where I might ask for feedback on Collins' interpretation of Luke's eyewitnesses?...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Can someone explain me this rebus?
Certain ideographic spellings in Babylonian cuneiform are often difficult to decipher; but when the reading is provided, every cuneiform scholar immediately recognizes that the reading is correct,...
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