Christian Texts and History • External evidence that (Matthew and) canonical...
1 Timothy 3-4, even if a Catholic epistle, is still reluctant to accept the genealogies found in the incipit of Matthew and Canonical Luke. 3 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: External evidence that (Matthew and)...
1 Timothy 3-4, even if a Catholic epistle, is still reluctant to accept the genealogies found in the incipit of Matthew and Canonical Luke. 3 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in...
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: naked or nakeds in the "Letter to...
Singular or plural?Here is Smith's translation from Secret Gospel (1973) page 17:"....But "naked [man] with naked [man]" and the other things about which you wrote are not found."In the Clement book...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Every time Paul mentions Mark, he also...
...................................................More recent commentators https://sites.google.com/site/inglisonm ... ed-on-mark have noted that the "omissions" by Marcion are strange in another...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Timo S. Paananen's Dissertation on "Admissible...
To a limited extent I agree with Panaanen. Some of the arguments linking Morton Smith to the Mar Saba letter do appear flimsy. (After reading and enjoying Anglo-Saxon attitudes I do not believe it...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • (Related) Forgery Website
Ken mentioned site this three years ago:http://www.forgingantiquity.com/forgeriesI think Choat's "Forging antiquities: the case of papyrus fakes" is known here, although it has not been mentioned...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Clement and truthy-ness
For, even if they should say something true, one who loves the truth should not, even so, agree with them. one must never give way . . . but should even deny it on oath.Is this a thing? Does Clement...
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Classical Texts and History • I was Curious
Among the most important news, we read that Plato was buried in the garden reserved for him (a private area intended for the Platonic school) of the Academy in Athens, near the so-called Museion or...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 1715 Clement edition
Thank you, Adam.As to the suggestion that MS intended to publish that 1958 "Manufactured" document,which was never published in that form till his death, nor now,according to its Preface, it was to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Nazareth, like Capernaum, is a...
You don't know which Semitic source lies behind the Greek (in its various forms) and you can't show that - in its earliest usage - Ναζαρενος was a gentilic rather than an epithet (though you've...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: Philodemus, new text on Plato?
Very cool, thank youStatistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:45 am
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Another Ancient Phallus carved on Hadrian's Wall
Discovery at Vindolandahttps://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/04/a ... nda/151753Each architectural type of phalli have been grouped into one of nine morphological traits: the Rocket, the Hammer, the...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Timo S. Paananen's Dissertation on "Admissible...
To a limited extent I agree with Panaanen. Some of the arguments linking Morton Smith to the Mar Saba letter do appear flimsy. (After reading and enjoying Anglo-Saxon attitudes I do not believe it...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Invention of Macrina the Younger?
In the 4th century, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa invented their sister Macrina the Younger for very mundane reasons - it was for the good of their careers.What happened here?Statistics: Posted...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
Marta Przyszychowska (https://bn-pl.academia.edu/MartaPrzyszy ... culumVitae) came to this conclusion after 20 years of dealing with Gregory of Nyssa.Statistics: Posted by JarekS — Sun Apr 28, 2024...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: External evidence that (Matthew and)...
Jarek, yes the gospels were ignored in writings known to have existed after the gospels existed (eg pastorals) and so too that applies to the earlier epistles, this is the way the gospels can be seen...
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Academic Discussion • Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
And here's the character we've been talking about on the third page, which isn't a sigma.I posted the edge-detected version of this one earlier. But after reading the above it probably makes more...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Carrier - Goodacre conversation on the...
In case you missed it in 2012:https://web.archive.org/web/20130121052 ... 70595c.mp3Carrier comments on it here: https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/2839Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Mon...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Carrier - Goodacre conversation on the...
A bunch of comments went up on Goodacre's blog here:https://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/d ... rrier.htmlEarl Doherty for example makes an appearance in the comment section.Statistics: Posted by...
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