Jewish Texts and History • Re: Two Powers in Heaven
Andrei A. Orlov notes in a chapter in the book, Wisdom Poured Out Like Water: Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini, De Gruyter, 2018Andrei A. Orlov23 Two Powers in...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • The Just One
[*]The Righteous One: The reputation of James as a holy man and teacher, as well as his eventual martyrdom, led him to be called the Righteous one or James the Just. There could also be some influence...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • On the John the Baptist's importance to fix the...
John 1:31: I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.This seems to be in the same time: a denial of what is told in Mark about Jesus...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Was Paul Marcion (in part, at least)?
YES!!!No one, as far as I know, has mapped out the various Paths followed by Vespasian and especially Antonius Primus and Mucianus, to see if the Time Lines are even possible."Hastily fitting out a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Against Polycarp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuartodecimanismThereupon Victor, who presided over the church at Rome, immediately attempted to cut off from the common unity the parishes of all Asia, with the churches...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: BeDuhn’s Greek Reconstruction of Marcion’s...
At the same time, like Bilby, I am optimistic that BeDuhn's more expansive Greek text represents an advance over Roth. The proof of the pudding will be in the eating, of course, and working through...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Morton Smith Movie
Scene 23 Imaginary Meeting between Quentin Quesnell and Morton Smith INT. UNIVERSITY OFFICE - NIGHTThe scene is set in a dimly lit office, surrounded by shelves filled with ancient texts and...
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Christian Texts and History • Anonymous Team authorship.
Let me start with the famous example of Bart Ehrmann. Bart signs his books. Regardless of whether they are bedtime stories published in Harper One or specialized works and textbooks published by OUP,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Josephus, Antiquities 20.200: List's Take
The best interpolation hypothesis IMO remains the idea that a certain "James" was mentioned without providing an identifier. That is: if we go with an interpolation hypothesis, that is the one that...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Anonymous Team authorship.
Welcome to the forum! Fascinating first post, thank you. You're in the right place for this kind of discussion.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:00 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: “You got nothing. You're nothing but a lot...
FWIW, I am not a true believer. I'm still not sure of what I'm doing when it comes to "solving" the synoptic problem or "reconstructing" the gospel of Marcion. But I understand the value of being a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • No One Feels Uncomfortable With the Idea that...
Mark doesn't count because Irenaeus was writing to a Roman audience and already identifies the Gospel of Mark as "their" gospel. But it doesn't strike everyone as strange that "the Gospel" is supposed...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Klinghardt's Primary Reconstruction
What is most problematic in Klinghardt's reconstruction are philological issues. Some time ago I bought his monograph in the online version so that I could talk to biblical scholars and philologists...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Marcion saute
Marcion sauteOne of the major problems for competent professional biblical scholars is the need to go beyond their area of expertise. This is especially visible in the reconstructions of Marcion's...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Morton Smith Movie
Scene 25 INT. GASTER APARTMENT - DAYA heavy knock resounds through the apartment. LOTTA GASTER, a sturdy woman in her fifties with a strong German accent, approaches the door with caution. The chain...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Marcion saute
There was no conflict during Marcion's lifetime. The canonical Gospels are not anti-Marcian. They were created as a consequence of the success of the first one. I agree with the general idea. Only, I...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Psalm 40:6-8 LXX, 'a body you prepared for me'
https://biblehub.com/sep/psalms/40.htm(39:6) Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not; but a body hast thou prepared me: whole-burnt-offering and sacrifice for sin thou didst not require.7(39:7) Then...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: Phoenician Atlantis
Apollodorus, Library 3.4Ino threw Melicertes into a boiling cauldron then carrying it with the dead child she sprang into the deep. And she herself is called Leucothea, and the boy is called Palaemon,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Do all Roads Lead to Eusebius: Antiquities 20.200
So, I have been conducting some research on the James 20.200 passage (which I am working on a paper about arguing it is inauthentic). One thing I decided to do (because I can't find anyone else who...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Do all Roads Lead to Eusebius: Antiquities...
-Origen, Contra Celsum 1.48, 2.13 and Commentary on Matthew 10.17 (unreliable, Origen consistently misrepresents Josephus, no evidence he even had a manuscript of Antiquities nearby).Origen and the...
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