Christian Texts and History • Re: The "new covenant" in 2 Cor 3 and...
To me, it looks like 2 Cor 3 is using Jeremiah here.I'm not fully convinced.I agree with Peter here, Paul used the concept of the "new covenant" from Jeremiah for his 2 Corinthians 3:6. And Paul also...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Numenius "On the Good": (1) Agathos, (2)...
I shall contribute their religious and philosophical teachings, as well as their objects of worship when they are celebrated in conformity with Plato, whatever the Brahmans, the Jews, the Magi, and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Irenaeus Says the Carpocratians Referred to...
Rursus autem ‘qui nude tantum hominem eum dicunt ex Joseph generatum, perseverantes in servitute pristinae inobedientiae moriuntur; nondum commixti Verbo Dei Patris, neque per Filium percipientes...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Irenaeus Says the Carpocratians Referred to...
https://lsj.gr/wiki/nudusnūdus: a, um, adj. for nugdus; root nag-, nig-, to make bare; Sanscr. nagna, naked; cf. Germ. nackt; Eng. naked,I naked, bare, unclothed, uncovered, exposed.I Lit. A In gen.:...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • BeDuhn: Marcion's instrumentum as "Charter...
From Jason Beduhn, "Marcion's Gospel and the New Testament: Catalyst or Consequence?", New Testament Studies (March 2017), issue #2, volume 63, pp. 324-329.What then explains this peculiar selection...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: BeDuhn: Marcion's instrumentum as...
BeDuhn, in a publication of The Fourth R (September-October 2020), found some support for his ideas in the "Christianity Seminar":https://mythologymatters.files.wordpres ... r-33-5.pdfJason...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Letters as a unique Christian genre
But above all why did letter writing become so extant that they rival even the four Gospels in authority?BeDuhn has a suggestion, posted here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11822Statistics: Posted by Peter...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Was Paul Marcion (in part)?
I'm quite confident that the "Gospel of Mark" was originally much longer and included material that is now found in Acts 16-28.Which verses (or material)?Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Fri Apr...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Even Joseph Turmel concluded that Matthew...
Why use that Gospel at all?Why not?It depends on the starting point, of course. Marcion's Gospel was about a Jewish man (by appearance) who walked around Galilee and Judea, interacted with Jews,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Short Recension of Three Letters of...
Jack Bull seems to have had an interview with Jacob Berman here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyoYEX4 ... toryValleyStatistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Fri Apr 05, 2024 6:52 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Context for understanding the Ransom Theory
The Commentaries of Origen and Jerome on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians (Heine's translation), p. 91, on Ephesians 1:7.‘Redemption’ [or] deliverance has to do with prisoners and those who have...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Clement's Unrecognized References to the...
"He has left the paths of his own vineyard, and he has lost his way in the furrows of his own field. These are they who abandon the Church from the beginning. The one who falls into heresy passes...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Do any Church Fathers state or imply that...
I believe that it was Joachim Jeremias, in The Parables of Jesus (Engl transl 1955 by S H Hooke), who seriously pursued the idea that Jesus' parables as presented in the Greek language Gospels were...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Gentile readers of Canonical Luke were...
Yeah.There may be some other arguments in the literature made by scholars other than Klinghardt too.In terms of this forum, Ben C. Smith had some stuff that he wrote. But most of what's relevant seems...
View ArticleOther Texts and History • Re: Can we have an AI Translator Thread?
Here's a geek's video on Claude 3 that raves:https://youtu.be/hqfjvkYt2YASuperlative features identified here (article reads like a promo, tho):https://flowch.ai/news/6faad64c-claude- ......
View ArticleGeneral Religious Discussion • The History & Mythology of Eclipses
https://abcnews.go.com/International/in ... =108693492Statistics: Posted by billd89 — Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:31 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Important milestones in biblical scholarship
IMHO, the Context group, at least as presented by Bruce Malina, are/is perpetuating stereotypes of modern Mediterranean peoples as somehow gross, sexist and brutal. "Oh, how fortunate we are live in a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Best Bad Explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA-UPrK_x-kJW:Date Apologist Source Apology Commentary1909 B. W. Bacon The Lost Ending of the Gospel According to Mark: A Criticism and a Reconstruction argued that the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What do we know about the revenue /...
Hello again allegoria,I found the reference in Conley's Ignatius article, but due to scanning errors and Conley's unusual citation style I had to reformat it a bit.He references Cornelius, Bishop of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On the confusion of Jesus with the Teacher...
Yes it is. Is there a way to gain it (even paying) ?Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:55 pm
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