Christian Texts and History • Re: Sabar's Article is about You?
But this isn't about you, is it? It's all about M.Smith quite deliberately queering Jesus. And Why.Sure: maybe an historical Jesus lived AND he was oriented towards same-sex relationships. Who knows!...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What You See/What You Don't See
Smith's homosexuality led him to him to misread the letter.This should be taken seriously as a possibility.You assume something innate, here. By analogy: Would you say someone 'being a woman' would...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: eConference: The Market for Biblical...
Indeed. Forgers were certainly active in Palestine in the early- mid-20th C.; the scope of their trade is not generally known to lay-people, but it was extensive for the niche market. Here's a 1984...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Flaw with Marcion priority theory?
Marcion theory has first gospel c. 140 CE when Marcion put together his *ev.I'm not sure we can be sure of that date.And we can't be sure Marcion wrote the *ev (though I think Markus Vinzent's reasons...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is *Ev 7:24-28 based on Mark 9:9-13 ? The...
Alas a difference! A weakness for the Markan priority: why did Mark feel the need of praising John the Baptist as Elijah just immediately after the Transfiguration episode? Wasn't it sufficient a such...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: ancient Judaean horoscope text (?)
Woefully insufficiently informative report--e.g. found where and when?--but fwiw:https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/03/14/ ... an-desert/To pull an F M Cross 'Excuse me mr. presenter ... but isn't that...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Early Christian Ebionaen Canon
The importance here is that therefore James belongs in the Early Christian Ebionaen Canon.The point being made is about creating a reading list for a modern canon with supposedly ancient origins.I'm...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Why the Hellenistic era for ALL "Old...
One aspect that imo this thread has not yet adequately addressed is the long-term diachronic changes in the Hebrew language evidenced in TaNaK.Statistics: Posted by StephenGoranson — Thu Mar 14, 2024...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Did Josephus say that Jesus was called...
For a short while, I was almost persuaded that "He became a true witness, both to Jews and Greeks, that Jesus is the Christ, and immediately Vespasian besieged them." belonged to the wording of...
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Christian Texts and History • Interactive website cross-referencing the New...
Hi, not an academic, just a programmer. So, I got inspired to do a a spiritual "update" to the e-Catena. The top-level page is an aggregation of reference counts by NT book and early works - they can...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Interactive website cross-referencing the...
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing this.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:05 pm
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
From what I see in the photo of the text above, Tselikas got it right and Morton Smith wrong. There is no "naked man to naked man" in the text. The authors of this text corrects a spelling mistake...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is *Ev a source of the Gospel of the...
I'm not sure what else there is to say about the texts. What Church writers say about Marcion lines up with the citations you've given of the Ebionite Matthew and the Clementine writings (which are...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
Here is the discussion of the term Christ starting at 1.45.1.Syriac translationArmenian translationLatin translation(1.45.1) Now Peter began to speak as follows: "God, who made the world and who is...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: wilderness = order (?)
The Greek interlinear has ἔρημον - erēmon - in Mk 1:12 and ἐρήμῳ - erēmō - (Strongs 2048) in Mk:13 https://biblehub.com/interlinear/mark/1.htmStrongs says it's an Adjective : "of a person: deserted,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The precise point about Paul where Georgios...
Thanks for starting the thesis. When I was writing I was not trying to become Christian again. I assume you met a hurdle/s just in my comments above. For over two million years our mammal character is...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Anthologia Palatina 10.58 = Palladas of Alexandria (4th cent. CE?)Naked came I forth upon the Earth,And naked shall I go away beneath it.Why, then, do I keep toiling to no purpose,Seeing that the end...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Source of Mark's Naked Youth Narrative?
She caught him by his (Joseph's) cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house. [Genesis 39:12]Clement sees a lot of naked Joseph in the Bible....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Gospel priority
I don't yet know the answer, but I am most often looking at the gospel relationships as follows:Mk -> *EvMk and/or *Ev -> Jn*Ev and maybe Mk -> MtThen finally Luke is aware of all the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Did Josephus say that Jesus was called...
More importantly, Ken Olson brings out some important connections in understanding the text of Hegesippus, including: why is James called "bulwark of the people" (περιοχὴ τοῦ λαοῦ)? What is the...
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