Christian Texts and History • Re: Further evidence that Ignatius faced old...
So the position is that Ignatius is referring to what his opponents consider to be in τὰ ἀρχεῖα in the first reference to the phrase. it seems to me that you are victim of a false view about the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Recensions of the Letters attributed to...
3. The short recessions. There are three manuscripts, written in Syriac. They are also called Curetonian epistles, named after William Cureton who published them in the 19th C. "The seven epistles in...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: references to Paul and Peter in the...
The Syriac version refers to Paul and Peter ... Yes, it does.Jack Bull notes:"... In IgnRom 4 [the author, 'Ignatius'] admits he is not on the same level as the apostles, Peter and Paul, but there is...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: re; re: reeeeeeee
But I will say:5. The fact that the Ignatian Epistle to the Romans mentions Paul and Peter - as Apostles - is not evidence for the 'historicity' of Jesus.Who cares whether it's evidence for...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: "Christian-adjacent" Hellenistic...
Some more context from the text. I will start with this section, to save a bit of time on highlighting and copying the Greek.Ignatius, who is also Theophorus, to the church of God the Father and of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Short Recension of Three Letters of...
The Short Recension of Three Letters - discovered and championed by Cureton - the Epistles to Polycarp, to the Ephesians and to the Romans - were almost certainly the first, original letters of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Important milestones in biblical scholarship
I mentioned one important milestone in historical Jesus research already, and now here are three.David F. Strauss, The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined (1835).Albert Schweitzer, From Reimarus to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Early Christian Ebionaen Canon
In a post that breaks the forum rules, the poster ebion says he wants to "justify" all the books in his version of an Early Ebionaen Canon, including the Epistle of James:I can't see how that post...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Do any Church Fathers state or imply that...
Not necessarily so.1) Reading and writing are different skills. I can read Greek, I can't compose text in it.2) If you define literacy as reading-and-writing, if you assume (generously) a literacy...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Letters as a unique Christian genre
Pauls "7 authentic" are (to my reading) real letters.I disagree and so does the whole Tubingen school: that's why we threw them out of the Ebionaen Canon. He introduces himself, says his sources, ends...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: How the Gospels got their attributions...
one argument for a proto john is if john were actually using a source for some of it's material and adding a narrativeJohn reminds me of the way a few gnostic texts do this So this would be the first...
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Academic Discussion • Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
This is our subject (to the right of the omicron).I will leave a discussion of the subject character for another post.Here is the subject character alongside other instances of iota after omicron.Here...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis...
I have argued with "authenticity" proponents too. I can reproduce these conversations at will. No one seems to know what the ligature for νος is. Tselikas knows:So if the handwriting was spelling...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
At some places, the Syriac translation speaks of the kingdom of Chr_stos:1.52.6 For this reason, blessed are those who attain and receive the kingdom of Christ[?], who will also escape the punishment...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: “Pontius Pilate” was merely a...
Giuseppe, if "Definitely on the Semitic root [....]"then why did you also propose a different, Greek, way to claim to erase Pilate?I have changed opinion, in whiletime. Afterall, this is an old...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • A Consistent Editorial Tendency In Marcion's...
One of the main arguments against the theory that Marcion created the Evangelion by making ideologically motivated subtractions from Luke is that for every position of Marcion used to explain an...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A Consistent Editorial Tendency In...
You know it's going to be a good post. Thanks, Ken! I look forward to working through this.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:33 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What do we know about the revenue /...
I rooted around for Conley's article. I found it below, although it no longer seems to be posted online. It may once have been online at RadicalKritik (I have shurely spellded it wrong). IIRC, and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Early Christian Ebionaen Canon
Also written by Epiphanius, which is relevant to understanding what Epiphanius is saying here.16:7 They lay down certain ascents and instructions in the supposed 'Ascents of James,' as though he were...
View ArticleGeneral Religious Discussion • Re: ... New False Gods
Islam isn't a New False God, tho. Islam isn't "new" to Europe, although there were no mosques in peripheral places like Iceland, etc. until our lifetime. Visibility isn't newness, is it? Richard...
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