Christian Texts and History • Re: No One Feels Uncomfortable With the Idea...
That's a Marcionite argument Origen is making.Origen must know both Paul's "my gospel" and Mark's "gospel of Christ Jesus" as Marcionite arguments. And this has to be another attestation that Mark has...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Markan Marcion: A Contrarian Synopsis
Relevant here: an association with Mark is confirmed by Origen.That's a Marcionite argument Origen is making.Origen must know both Paul's "my gospel" and Mark's "gospel of Christ Jesus" as Marcionite...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is BeDuhn right? Are patristic scholars...
Jack Bull asks about the neglect of Marcionite studies:Why have they -- why are colleagues (secular and biblical) -- not engaging with us properly ... about Marcionite studies? Jason BeDuhn gives the...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Why I Think Morton Smith is Innocent
Nobody shits into a chocolate cake.... unless he wanted to become another anonymous evangelist after eighteen centuries. Such a temptation may be stronger than tedious study of the text to create yet...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Starting to Have Strong Doubts About Ariel...
Look at this. This has to be what Sabar based his claim:Madjoucoff accompanied Smith to monastery libraries around Greece, and in August 1952, according to passenger manifests, they boarded the SS...
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Jewish Texts and History • Jacob-Israel is Herakles-Palaemon?
A theory is just a theory, until debate and consensus deems it worthy. Maybe it becomes widely accepted, even common-knowledge or even 'fact.' What follows is something less understood, perhaps highly...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: the law is just, the παιδαγωγός, and the...
He shouted at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God’s name don’t torture me!” (Mark5:7)He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Celsus thought that Jesus was one of the...
In which case Celsus is referring to John the Baptist, probably using the Gospel of John:which cannot explain why Celsus uses the plural to describe the group of the person who witnessed the presumed...
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=11822That's really interesting....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Implications of Marcion for early...
Can we really know it's true?I'm respecting the OP here:SPECULATION WELCOMED! I'm interested in speculative ideas. Posts don't have to be the strong, respectful and well-thought out arguments that we...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Is it more noble to defend an innocent man or...
That's what it comes down to for me with Morton Smith. Let's say we don't know the answer for sure as to whether he is guilty or innocent. It just seems more dignified to defend the innocent than...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: John Granger Cook 2017 article on the...
John Granger Cook (2017)'Resurrection in Paganism and the Question of an Empty Tomb in 1 Corinthians 15,' New Testament Studies, 63(1); pp.56-75Abstract2 In ancient Judaism (from the second century...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • From Bar-Rabbas to Bar-Abbas: how the follower...
The best place to be seen where the embarrassment for a confusion is evident is the Barabbas episode.It is obvious to me that the Barabbas episode reflected the measure taken to avoid the confusion...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: From Bar-Rabbas to Bar-Abbas: how the...
Another trace of the same embarrassment for the confusion between a remote Jesus of the distant past and a recent (Gospel) Jesus:"Bar Jesus" appears in Acts 13:6–7: “They traveled through the whole...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Irenaeus Says the Carpocratians Referred to...
The notion of Logos being envisaged as a ‘stark-naked’ one (γυμνὸς) is a recurring motif in Origen: it suggests the Logos not only as incorporeal but also as not being involved with, or engaging in,...
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Christian Texts and History • Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to Theodore...
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View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The gospel writers saw Jesus as an angel...
The possible interpretations may be numerous and contradictory. Jesus may be the son of El Elyon, he may be the son of YHWH. Literally or spiritually. All anti-Marcion literature is a deliberate...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Origen's interesting ideas
This thread is started as a place to put down some of Origen's "interesting ideas."Mainly because otherwise I'd forget them.The main heuristic is that I wonder if they were known before Origen wrote,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Origen's interesting ideas
Origen, Homilies on Luke 6.4-6, pp. 24-26.4.1 found an elegant statement in the letter of a martyr—I mean Ignatius, the second bishop of Antioch after Peter. During a persecution, he fought against...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Ritual aesthetic surgery
Ritual aesthetic surgery or Paul the Great HaterI honestly don't understand how you can't see the narrative fiction of the second chapter of Galatians. It is difficult to call Paul's approach to...
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