Academic Discussion • Re: Comments on Handwriting Analysis and the Mar Saba...
Recall that: The fundamental difference between writing with one’s own handwriting and imitating someone else’s is that the former uses proprioceptive feedback (i.e. internal feedback that allows the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
"...turns it into Nazareth," I doubt.Probably correct as far as it goes. However, There was at least one intermediate step. The earliest manuscript containing part of Mt 2:23 had Nazara (P70bis),...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Melito called Jesus the Father. What are...
The Gospel of Truth calls God the Father-Mother as a fundamental aspect of its theology.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:02 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Origen's interesting ideas
This sounds like more on similar themes from Origen.Commentary on John 1.40And that which John calls an eternal gospel, which would properly be called a spiritual gospel, clearly presents both the...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Markan Marcion: A Contrarian Synopsis
I'm revisiting this, now a week later, after looking more widely both at Origen's writings and the context of the Commentary on John. I would like to put this reading to use by providing some comments...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Litwa on Marcion as ancient Mythicist
But the Talmud placed Jesus under Janneus. The Jesus lived under Pilate was a myth, according to that Talmudic tradition.Let me rephrase.....What is "Mythicism?" I'm trying to think of what Richard...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to...
According to Smith and Landau. Morton Smith said that he realized at Mar Saba that he had discovered a previously unknown letter of Clement against the Carpocratians. He took careful photographs which...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: Textual history of Euclid's...
Has there been the kind of textual criticism, analysis, history etc--of the sort done for NT books--been done for Euclid's elements? I've read various things, including, for example, that the current...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: Who Built the Pyramids, again?
https://allthatsinteresting.com/who-built-the-pyramidsExcavations in the 1990s into what researchers sometimes call “pyramid city” were crucial in establishing a modern understanding of not just how...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Antitheses and the origin of Luke
I'm not sure I understand what is very strange.Perhaps nothing. Its just that textual variations was something which irked Origin:The differences among the manuscripts have become great, either...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: antithesis-y bits of the gospel
*chuckle* I don't remember creating this thread.....have we been moderated?Statistics: Posted by RandyHelzerman — Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:49 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Post-70 anti-Romanism in the oldest gospel fits...
I differ from other mythicists insofar I think that:1) there are traces of hate against the Romans in the first gospel (or its source). 2) these traces of anti-Roman hate are evidence of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Post-70 anti-Romanism in the oldest gospel...
For example: Emmaus is the same place where Varus crucified many Jews.Marcion was disturbed by the Gerasene cry "we are Legion" and probably he omitted the suicide of Legion into the lake because he...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Basic reason why the name of Pilate was...
I don’t even know where to start with this. How would inventing a trial and sentence that didn’t happen have anything to do with proving that Jesus was the Messiah or the son of YHWH?The two things...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: back to the drawing board? the missing...
One reason that I haven't already just gone with (1)/(3) is that I'm not sure we have a good catalog of non-Luke that could be in Marcion's gospel. Prior scholarship generally takes the Gospel of Luke...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Marcion’s Gospel and the New Testament:...
I recently paid £21 for this article - of just 6 pages. I had thought I was getting the three articles for this price. The other two articles being by Jason Beduhn and Judith Lieu.Marcion’s Gospel and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: How should the “rollercoaster” phrase in...
Unfortunately I cannot help with the ascent and descent of Jesus as christ-savior. This particular section you cited is part of materials I have attributed to a later editor to an original letter of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Abraham ibn Daud (d. 1180 CE): mythicism...
I stand on this position well described here.Amicus RandyHelzerman, sed magis amicus Alvar Ellegard.Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:23 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Marcion’s Gospel and the New Testament:...
If the Marcionite Gospel is seen as an alteration of Luke, it has almost no relevance for the New Testament ... On the other hand, the priority of the Marcionite Gospel promotes the most noble and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Gospel priority
Have you read Mark Goodacre's 'Fatigue in the Synoptics" or his introductory book: The Synoptic Problem: A Way Through the Maze, which has a section on the argument from fatigue? It doesn't sound like...
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