Christian Texts and History • Paul Was The Son of Herod Antipas
Upthread we asked:From Paul Was The Son of Herod Antipas:I note with interest that geni.com lists NO children for Phasaelis of Nabataea, despite 17 years of marriage to Herod. I suspect all her...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A real strong argument to doubt about the...
I see what Nir says about Acts 18:23-25:Significantly then, 'the baptism of John' is an early Christian baptism preparing the baptized for the coming of the messiah, for baptism in the Holy Spirit and...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Could the nomina sacra denote the presence...
Thank you for your vote of confidence. I have been out of this game for a few years and am trying to get back into it. Your posts are always a fun read just by how much information you drop in them....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
If I may ask, is there anyone, real name, who accepts your long-proposed version of history, so I can read that?Statistics: Posted by StephenGoranson — Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:45 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Deir Ali inscription proves that...
It is true that I consider it more likely that a person named Paulos/Paulus, being a Roman name, writing to people in a Roman veteran colony, Corinth, being composed mostly of Roman military veterans...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
Just adding a missing inscription here.MAMA I 382, Asia Minor: Galatia (ca. 375-450 AD)https://inscriptions.packhum.org/text/266613?hs=603-609☩ σῆμα τόδ’ ἄγλαιων κεκασμένυ πε͂-δες ἄριστυ Πατροκλῆς καὶ...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Was Josephus a Christian?
The earliest known extant work which claims that the Testimonium Flavianum is not the work of Josephus is Lucas Osiander Epitomes Historiae Ecclesiasticae Centuria I. II. III. (1592)Testimonium vero...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: How Could the Gospel of Marcion NOT be Older?
The Philosophemenaaka The Refutation of All Heresies(Greek: Φιλοσοφούμενα ή κατὰ πασῶν αἱρέσεων ἔλεγχος;* Latin: Refutatio Omnium Haeresium)whose attribution to Hippolytus of Rome or an unknown...
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Are you referring to the account of Markos the Valentinian in book 6, sections 39ff and/or the account of Marcion in book 7?39.1. ... Markos was an expert in magic. He deceived many people by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
https://biblehub.com/interlinear/mark/2.htm and https://biblehub.com/greek/oiko__3624.htmThat phrase "ἐν οἴκῳ ἐστίν" rendered in the interlinear as "in (the)-house he-is" (I added dashes). The noun...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Can Anyone Find Another Example of Regnal Years...
Luke has "πεντεκαιδεκάτῳ τῆς ἡγεμονίας Τιβερίου Καίσαρος." Can anyone find a similar Greek formulation?No examples of "τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῳ τῆς ἡγεμονίας." No examples of "τρισκαιδεκάτῳ τῆς ἡγεμονίας."...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
"The use of abbreviations is, on the whole, as foreign to the Greeks as it is congenial to the Romans and Byzantines.” Do you agree with this, and if so, what do you believe that it means in concrete...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
MoreIn Providence, Smith found Madjoucoff an apartment around the corner from his. But shortly after Brown told Smith that his time there was up, Madjoucoff changed his last name, married a woman he’d...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Socrates never existed: analogies with Jesus
I see that what is more close to a 'mythicist' position on Socrates has been advanced seriously by a scholar; Olof Gigon: Sokrates, sein Bild in Dichtung und GeschichteFortunately it has been...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Common themes found in the New Testament...
this is all very interesting especially the classic quotes in corinthians and actsbut.... too much information!there needs to be a concordance to easily look up which passages have classic parallels...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: Athena Parthenos of NashVegas
Adequate summary for mainstream audience:https://www.thecollector.com/athena-parthenos-statue/Statistics: Posted by billd89 — Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:44 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: New book by Dennis MacDonald
Luke's use of Matthew personally, if there is something I would assume under any Gospel X priority, is that Matthew follows Luke and not vice versa. Bruno Bauer has given a good example of this just...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Why the Hellenistic era for ALL "Old...
I do not regard the absence of evidence of Pentateuchal material in the Elephantine papyri as strong evidence that the Pentateuchal material did not then exist.I agree with that. Even Hecataeus of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The context and backgrounds of the...
The Grotesque Body in Early Christian Discourse Hell, Scatology and Metamorphosis (Routledge, 2014), Istvan Czachesz:There is yet another ancient narrative about asses to be mentioned in this chapter,...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: Pillars of Hercules
Melqart appears in Greek mythology under Melicertes [Μελικέρτης] also called Palaimon [Παλαίμων] son of Athamas and Ino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melicertes Which came first? Melqart or...
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