Christian Texts and History • Re: The Problem of someone who was also closely...
Apologies for the potential tangent, but I have to ask: If Marcion created the letters of Paul AND he created his Luke-like Gospel, why don't we see Gospel details in Marcion's letters of Paul?This...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What to make of the Gospel of the Hebrews?
DSS publication surely took longer than many of us wanted, but I have no reason to think any (of the ones that that used to be in the Rockefeller/PAMuseum) were withheld. (Though mostly rumors,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: KJV Tampering
It is not plausible that any forger in the 19th century could create that codex.Statistics: Posted by StephenGoranson — Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:14 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Preparation (τῆς παρασκευῆς) Simply Means...
He knows also the enigmas (τὰ αἰνίγματα) of the fasting of those days -- I mean the Fourth and the Preparation (τῆς παρασκευῆς). For the one has its name from Hermes, and the other from Aphrodite...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: History of the Bishops of Alexandria a new...
Contents of the Collection(s)pp 251-252In the following table the reader will find the list of the essential textual units preserved in the two collections Σ and V. As for the former, it is worth...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: General Thoughts on Secret Mark
Is this the closest we get to a confirmation of Secret Mark in the writings of Clement of Alexandria outside the Letter to Theodore. But to the Unbelieving the barren and the desert are still...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Problem of Paul and Marcionism
Those references to the Torah are late interpolations.Statistics: Posted by schillingklaus — Fri Dec 29, 2023 6:14 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Colophon to the Khabouris Codex
There's a thread on the colophon to the Khabouris Codex at http://www.peshitta.org/for/showthread.php?tid=2930Paul Younan writes:Regarding the colophon to the Khabouris, I was in possession several...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Nomina Sacra do not exist in Aramaic
Nomina Sacra are a Latin and Greek creation - they are not in the PeshittAt? Readers of the NT in Aramaic wouldn't know what the words meant. For example the PeshittA spells out the words Matt. 1:1 as...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • How many "Sign Prophets" were...
I have found only one, but he can't be believed a "sign prophet", only a soldier. [Niger of Perea] "filled all the Jews with an unexpected joy, as though he were preserved by God's providence to be...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Tosefta (t. Sanh. 11.7)
Can someone give me kindly the exact quote of this Talmudic passage:That several men were crucified before Passover corresponds well with the report in the Tosefta (t. Sanh. 11.7) about how criminals...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Tosefta (t. Sanh. 11.7)
Probably this is the meant source:A rebellious son: we warn him before three (witnesses), as it states: "And you shall grab him... And you shall say to the elders of his city...". (We learn from here...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Between the Sheets -- Mark’s Ménage a Trois...
Having studied the parallels, i think 2 Kings 5:1-17 is a better source for the narrative in Mark 1. There are more striking parallels and intertextuality in 2 Kings 5 than in Numbers 12. Still an...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Was Πάνταινον a Cryptic Reference to the...
Irenaeus reference to gospel centos is well known. Hard to get around that reference. Irenaeus is very influential.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Sun Dec 31, 2023 9:11 am
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: The Calendar of Therapeutae
* Accidentally Edited OP, sorry.Statistics: Posted by billd89 — Sun Dec 31, 2023 9:31 am
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Narrative of Zosimos, and the History of the...
Maybe you've seen it, but if not, possibly related:Joseph M. Baumgarten, 4QHalakaha 5, the Law of Hadash, and the Pentacontad Calendar, J.of Jewish Studies 27 (1976) 36-46.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Are there Mythicists who argue for the...
does anyone think Marcion's ev ended with the women being confused just like Mark?(Luke 24:12 is missing in the earliest MS, maybe the rest was in Mcn also)if this were so then Mark may have copied ev...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Samaritans are Hebrews but not "Jews'
[No the problem here is real: the Paul in Acts says that he's been given the task of teaching the gentiles, but no one amongst the Jamesian church says that. He's made by them to do costly penance,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Calendars Have Been Done
Calendars have been done, indexing gospel accounts of prominent events situated with the feast days.Statistics: Posted by Trees of Life — Mon Jan 01, 2024 8:31 am
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Christian Texts and History • Re: KJV Tampering
It is not plausible that any forger in the 19th century could create that codex.Hi Stephen!Why not? Note, it may have been designed as a replica rather than a forgery, but that does nor change the...
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