Christian Texts and History • Re: Every time Paul mentions Mark, he also...
Maybe Eusebius's Eccl. hist. III.39.16 - especially the first half - is accurate, viz.But concerning Matthew he [Papias] writes as follows: "So then Matthew wrote the oracles in the Hebrew language,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: John the Baptist, redivivus of a 2015 article
I discussed them above (samples 1 and 2). I went through every adelphonymic I could find in Josephus' extant work and observed how he used them. In the case of (1) he introduces a new character (x),...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 1715 Clement edition
According to A. T., Mar Saba had a 1715 edition of Clement's works, so why wouldn't a claimed added text be added there?I'm a little bit confused. When I read A. T.'s report I understood that...
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Academic Discussion • Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
I am posting all three pages of the color photos of The Letter to Theodore here (again with thanks to Roger Viklund and Charles W. Hedrick:First page:Second page:Third page;Best,KenStatistics: Posted...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is *Ev more paulinist than Mark?
Evidently the implication escapes your attention. If Mark is not Paulinist, then the next question is: who is more Paulinist among the other gospels?Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Tue Apr 23, 2024...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Josephus again
The story of Jesus started in Ant. And was developed by ghostwriters in letters, in gospels. With invented tradition to cover the past. Is Jesus a historical person? It is a question to Josephus....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Gospel priority
ok, this is the alternative explanation:* Thomas or something like it (I'm generous) is original* Ev which precedes Luke wishes to incorporate the pre-existing parables (which must precede the writing...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Gospels, Epistles, Old Testament: the order...
[W]hat does that mysterious ΧΣ stand for, χριστός or χρηστός? The first word means 'anointed' in Greek, the second means 'good', and it is widely assumed that Jesus Christ is the 'Anointed One' - yet...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
I am not a biblical scholar, just a reader. And I guess all of us. I don't add anything to biblical scholarship. I only find illegitimate questions and unjustified answers there. I used to be only a...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Comments on Handwriting Analysis and the Mar Saba...
IIUC we are not only dealing with isolated unusual letter formations scattered through the letter. There seem to be consistent usages. For example the omicron upsilon with circumflex word ending...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Book 6.5.3 of Wars of the Jews.
I am not saying that Josephus is a witness to Jesus, but that he is recounting oral traditions that may have influenced early Christianity.I presume you mean:"[Therein] Josephus is recounting events...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • 'The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary...
Nina E. Livesey, The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context: Reassessing Apostolic Authorship, Cambridge University Press.available from: July 2024 (in Hardback)Book descriptionSince the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 'The Letters of Paul in their Roman...
I think some of these scholars take skepticism too far. If they were mid 2nd century Paul would know gospels. There's a very long list of ignorance of Paul - Nazaraeth, Virgin birth, Pilate, earthly...
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Christian Texts and History • Paul's reference to the gospel
Paul apparently used the term “gospel” ~60 times. He is said to use the possessive, “my/our gospel,” six times (one of which is in the pastoral 2 Tim. 2:8). He uses the definitive, “the gospel”, ~27...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: John the Baptist, redivivus of a 2015 article
Side note: Greg, you may find interesting this point about Capernaum in Josephus.Very interesting Giuseppe! I think you are right! It is a story version of Jesus being credited with healing the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Implications of Marcion for early...
I think that "doubtless" in the Jesus's answer is a strong clue pointing to an explanation found inside the story itself of the gospel of Luke, not assumed a priori external to that gospel (i.e....
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Timo S. Paananen's Dissertation on "Admissible...
The dissertation is available to read online:https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/han ... sAllowed=yhttps://www.academia.edu/40126874/A_Stu ... el_of_MarkThe dissertation is mostly about the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Paul's use of or references to 'gospel'
It seems to me that all of your examples of the word Gospel from Paul are compatible with the idea that the Gospel is the message God gave Paul to spread to others Hi Ken. Yes, I agree, I was about...
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Jewish Texts and History • Re: Seriously Are We Supposed to Believe that...
Was my X wife a crypto-Marcionite? Well, as Chaucer said in the knights tail, let's make a virtue out of a necessity Statistics: Posted by RandyHelzerman — Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:03 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Gospel priority
I favor the Farrer theory, that Luke used Matthew (as Farrer, Goulder, and Goodacre).Given that the Farrer theory proposes the Lucan writers had a copy of Mt, Ken, why would they have used Mk at all,...
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