Christian Texts and History • Re: Origen on the heterodox
Origen here is commenting on a biblical demiurgist proof text:15.12 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?" 15.13 He...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What is the final legacy of Marcion at the...
Marcion taught the church how to organize efficiently, creating a huge threat to all of their competitors. He was the factor that required them to improve their performance in all aspects of the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is 'called Christ' in Ant 20:200 a...
Ant is one of many literary sources for evangelists. Ant 20:200 may be original.Paul's letters were edited, interpolated, and supplemented with texts by other authors before they were made public. The...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Were Marcionites keepers of the original...
Were the Marcionites the keepers of the original Christian faith?(1) Was their faith represented by the original Pauline epistles?If so, where did the author of the original Pauline epistles get his...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
ICG 1285, Phrygia, ca. 200-400note: "Dating according to Tabbernee: 250-275."https://icg.uni-kiel.de/icg/ICG_webapp/ ... /show/1285Ἡδῖα Χρειστ̳ε̳ιαν̳ή̳.Hedia, a Christian.Statistics: Posted by Peter...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Were Marcionites keepers of the original...
Were the Marcionites the keepers of the original Christian faith?(1) Was their faith represented by the original Pauline epistles?If so, where did the author of the original Pauline epistles get his...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Real story of Jesus
Josephus.Due to Zuntz and Klinghardt's realignment of the dating of the Pauline Corpus and the first commercial gospel *Ev, the only logical conclusion is that the first literary creator to mention...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • John comes FROM Acts...
So, you may know that my theory is that actually a version of Acts, what I would call Acts of the Apostle, was written BEFORE any Gospel was written. This story was a companion piece to the Pauline...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: John comes FROM Acts...
But here is the kicker, I think what we have here is temporal dislocation. Maybe impossible to prove, but I suspect that in Act of the Apostle, it did say, “John baptized with the baptism of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Antitheses and the origin of Luke
Aduersus Marcionem (15)123§ 4 (p.465, l.9) BP142§ 2 (p.547, l.16) BP146§ 4 (p.553, l.9) BP147§ 4 (p.554, l.22) BP147§ 4 (p.554, l.23 - *) BP149§ 10 (p.560, l.5) BP149§ 15 (p.561, l.8) BP1416§ 5...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Bethsaida episode (in Mark) is based on the...
The Bethsaida episode is really a good proof of *Ev's priority over Mark, since it is based on the episode of the blind Bartimaeus.In both the cases:a blind occurs:Batimaeus is a blinda blind of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Origen's interesting ideas
Origen writes that Jesus is first delivered up by God, to "the prince of this age" and the rest, and "then by them delivered into the hands of men who would slay Him."Origen, Commentary on Matthew,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Date of Marcion
What is your impression of who Basilides was and what he was trying to do in his writing?Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:02 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: John Granger Cook 2017 article on the...
eta wrt 1 Cor 3:4:"He was raised" = ἐγήγερται / egēgertai : from ἐγείρω / egeiró : to waken, to raise up (7 of the 9 NT occurrences are in 1 Corinthians; one in Mark 6:14 (wrt Herod postulating John...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • A Moderating Voice
JW:Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report:1) It's obvious that English is not his first language (surprise) so that is not helping.2) He offers no paleographical evidence that the writing is...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Distinguishing some questions about the...
No apparatus. For the translation yes. For forgery arguments no.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:19 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Marcion's church
Marcion's church introduced two manuals for its missionaries, enabling them to turn an average person into an effective shepherd. In this way, staff training was standard and the content was...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Marcion's church
The metaphor of Marcion's church as something like a successful franchise model is a little interesting.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:50 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Temptation Story in Mark is anti-marcionite
An interesting variant of this technique of extracting information about the present from the Old Testament is found in the references in Hebrews to Jesus's temptation. 94 Hebrews says: (2: 8) 'He...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Temptation Story in Mark is...
Weakness of the Markan prioritist Bruno Bauer in this case.Bruno Bauer interpreted the Temptation Story as an event related to the community 'Jesus', not as an event related to the man Jesus. He was...
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