Christian Texts and History • Who are scholars doubting the Historicity of...
They can be alive or dead, despite my title.Statistics: Posted by ABuddhist — Sat Feb 24, 2024 1:43 pm
View ArticleOther Texts and History • Re: Did the Buddha Exist?
This topic is being discussed here https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/su ... ical/32288 and here https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/ja ... ha/32581/5 .Statistics: Posted by ABuddhist — Sat Feb 24,...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Why the Hellenistic era for ALL "Old...
The late, great Ada Yardeni wrote (above) that the silver plaques do not prove the existence then of the Pentateuch. (Nor disprove of course.) Oddly, she wrote that "Only a discovery of biblical...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: My recreation of the opening of the First...
what are thoughts on the plausibility of the proposed reconstruction or potential problems with it? Firstly, why might we think that the opening of the Gospel of Mark is not original, i.e. that it has...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • A good argument to believe that the epistles...
It is said that Marcion introduced the Apostolikon in Rome to recommend himself in that community.But a such recommendation would have had some chance of success only if:the Roman community knew in...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Ancestry
In my own family, quite abit of 'ancestry stuff' (+35 relatives!) only became known after results of a commercial DNA test were posted recently. It was certainly a history unknown to all of us alive....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A good argument to believe that the...
What does "genuine" or "authentic" really mean? Idiots make the criteria something like "all of Acts is true" "none of the epistles have interpolation." Who believes in this sort of "authenticity"?...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
DOES HISTORY MATTER ?While many arguments presented on this forum concentrate on interpretations of the gospel story and it’s Greek words - my posts have mainly sought to highlight the necessity of...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Claudius was Jewish?
So you've answered your own question. It's about you.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:12 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What if "IC XC" Simply Meant...
Better is one of the meanings of Chrestos.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:17 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Markus Vinzent's claim about Marcion
Tomorrow I will encourage a few female scholars to put forward the thesis that Mary Magdalene wrote the first gospel. We will prove this and reconstruct her oppressed gospel. I expect a similar...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Bethany.
For example, see what William Benjamin Smith wrote about Bethany: This Bethany is in the Syriac and therefore in the Aramaic Beth "ania" and this latter word has been variously interpreted...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: No ekklēsia in Mark?
maybe the gospels don't like the idea an organisation existed before it was supposed to although thats what it looks like in the gospels, they won't call it thatStatistics: Posted by davidmartin — Tue...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Why the Hellenistic era for ALL "Old...
Different views, "hard hearted"?Protocol for this forum: When it is possible, try to give others the benefit of the doubt here that they are attempting to uphold the expectations of the forum, just as...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Basic reason why the name of Pilate was...
More correctly, I have then:A very short epilogue for the first gospel. Merely the more simple and direct translation of the original myth (= demonic ἄρχοντες τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου crucifying Jesus in...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: History of the challenge to apostolic...
.Erich Dinkler, Die Petrus-Rom-Frage: Ein Forschungsbericht, Theologische Rundschau, NEUE FOLGE, Vol. 25, No. 3 (1959), pp. 189-230 (42 pages)google-translationThe Peter tradition that developed and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Does the lost Gospel Q Exist? | Dr. James...
the numerous surprising omissions in Luke (if he knew Matthew)It seems intuitive to me that real things with fixed features are more likely to have surprising features than hypothetical things crafted...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
Though the early Hasmoneans were regarded, by some, as liberators, or in Hanukkah tradition versions, instruments used by God for a beneficial outcome (liturgy rereading Zech, 4:6), the later...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: GThomas as reaction to the proto-catholic...
Compared to the synoptic gospels, it seems unusual that Matthew is mentioned alongside Simon Peter in GThomas 13, who otherwise only plays a narrative role in the gospels as a tax collector....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Q as a judaizing (late) patina?
"Q" was never independent of Mark. There are too many Markisms like talking about the scribes and Pharisees, or the Son of Man, too many parables, too many places where it fits too neatly into the...
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