Christian Texts and History • Re: Anointing in Paul: 2 Corinthians 1.21-22...
2 Corinthians 2.14-152.14 But thanks be to God, who in [Christ] always leads us in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. 15 For we are the aroma of [Christ]...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What before *Ev: a teamwork, a school
I don't think so at all. There was a single original narrative. That narrative was the product of one person. That narrative was copied and changed by many people.Statistics: Posted by rgprice — Sat...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Mark's use of Philo
Perhaps Philo was remembering past events, resetting them to the time of the new emperor Gaius. 37 c.e. being 100 years from the events of 63 b.c. But why? I can understand telling events that...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Detering: A new examination of the question...
From: The Dutch Radical Approach to the Pauline Epistles - Hermann Detering (we have taken the liberty of changing "Paul" to Faul where the subject is excludively the Faulines, as we want to separate...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Problem With Jesus Being the Christ
My brief list of individuals thought, by some, to be the Messiah says nothing much by logic directly about Paul compared to Joel Osteen.Another example might be the Michael O. Wise book, "The First...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Jesus is not the Christ: A Reading of Mark
Your reading (a traditional reading insofar it makes Barabbas only a symbol of generic sin, apostasy, militant messianism, etc, with or without the midrash from the two goats of Leviticus 16) has to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Chreestology of Ephesians
Peter,I see no one has commented on this yet. I have not worked out for myself what the implications are for what Moles says about χρηστός and ἀγαθός in the New Testament and the Old Testament, at...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • W. B. Smith: “It is noteworthy that scant words...
Another subtle trace of rivalry between Jesus and John the Baptist preserved in Mark: Another most vivid example of Mark's symbolism is found in the Barren Fig Tree (xi, 12-14, 20, 21). Surely no one...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
While the “explanations” found [...] in modern mainstream scholarship are patently inadequateAnd what does he write in this regard?Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:52 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Inside Mark: Voices Come Over Them
.Two would-be kings talk like kings: Herod speaks the words of Ahasuerus and Jesus speaks the words of DavidMark 6:22fAnd the king said the to the girl, “Ask me whatever you wish, and I will give to...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Lost Lachmann demonstration re Mark 1:2-3
Personally, I share the modern view of the structure of the first four verses and do not understand the passage as primarily referring to John.To whom does the voice belong, then, if not to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Inside Mark: Voices Come Over Them
I don't think Psalm 22 was chosen due to any association with David, it was chosen for its content.Statistics: Posted by rgprice — Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:43 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The "Chrestos God"
I've translated Philo.Where is the Chrestos God in Philo, exactly?Statistics: Posted by billd89 — Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:03 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Anti-Marcionite Prejudice of Scholars
It takes me forever to do this. Hold on.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:08 am
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Why the Hellenistic era for ALL "Old...
There are reasons to consider some TaNaK texts to be older than third century, some of which have been discussed here.Qumran texts, safely considered to be copies rather than autographs, show...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Marcionite Reading for Matthew 7:17
"useless" (ἄχρηστόν) and "fruitless" (ἄκαρπον) were closely associatedThis text uses "good fruit" (χρηστόκαρπον) as one word.Posidonius Phil. (c. 2-1 B.C.), Fragmenta (1052: 001)“Posidonios. Die...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Twice, in the Entire Philonic Corpus?
However, these two meagre instances don't show Philo advocating for a {Proper Noun} "Chrestos Theos" so much as 'as God who is good' -- and which is different from your Concept:Philo Judaeus Phil.,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is this Ultimate Proof that...
Here, Peter, add this to your list. The earliest example I think of Christian self-identity and Chrestos. From 1 Clement:It is right and holy therefore, men and brethren, rather to obey God than to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Who were those Freedmen?
"AJ XVIII 144-145: Agrippa’s ‘noble spirit’ is said to have caused ‘lavishness in giving’ (the latter meant spending money on luxuries and giving bribes to the emperor’s freedmen)" AJ 18.6.1 Now as...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Mark 14-15 "fulfilling scripture"
There are more interesting additions here. From BeDuhn:Omission: Luke 22.35–37 was absent from the Evangelion, according toEpiphanius, Scholion 64.Luke 22.38–40 is unattested. As a continuation of the...
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