Christian Texts and History • Re: Litwa on Marcion as ancient Mythicist
It is a brute fact that exactly one of :1. The talmud and the Gospels refer to the same Jesus2. The talmud and the Gospels do not refer to the same JesusIs true. it is relative to the thought of the...
View ArticleOther Texts and History • Re: Reka Core A NEW AI OPTION
Roger Pearse is still using ChatGPT, what on earth is wrong w/ that fellow!https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/202 ... eutychius/RekaCore : well, some I raving ... honestly I wasn't impressed at...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Gospel priority
Given that the Farrer theory proposes the Lucan writers had a copy of Mt, Ken, why would they have used Mk at all, when Mt had double the content and in better Greek?Would you propose something like,...
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Christian Texts and History • Syndication
Perhaps I will start with the achievements of biblical studies in solving the synoptic problem. Well, biblical studies analyzed the content dependencies between the gospels and created a number of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: John of Gischala "was...
Guiseppe's effort to remove Jesus from the time of Pilate has been based on his interpretation of Greek and/or on a different and contradictory interpretation of Hebrew,and on an effort to date Jesus...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Syndication
They wrote their strips - pericopes which were then sent to editors and from which subsequent editions were created - *Ev, Mark, Matthew, John, Luke. Or vice versa - I don't insist on this order. But...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Gospel muteness as evidence of anti-marcionism
Martijn Linssen rightly pointed out that the pious women in Mark are condemned to silence because only so Mark could explain why the empty tomb story (absent in *Ev) didn't receive the attention that...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Gospel muteness as evidence of anti-marcionism
The last point counts really as a typical example of editorial fatigue: How could Mark say that "when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything" (4:34) when, episode after episode,...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Implications of Marcion for early...
Well, there is certainly precedence for a holy man and God ignoring someone's plea for forgiveness (Jer. 37:3: "Please pray to the Lord our God for us!"), and for the reasons I've given, it doesn't...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Possible textual evidence that Mark came after...
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. And Joseph her husband, being...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Possible textual evidence that Mark came...
The carpenter is an allusion to the divine artifex (docet Brodie) hence it could work without a reference to "Joseph":The mindless people in Wis. 13:1-9 do not recognize the technites, the supreme...
View ArticleGeneral Religious Discussion • 'Jews Killed Jesus,' a core belief?
I am not a Xian, and I do not believe this. But it is, in fact, a standard claim/belief of Christianity & Christians today, no? The two pillars of American Democracy are 1) Freedom of Speech and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • War and Peace
About 300 manuscripts from the list created by Larry Hurtado give us a picture of Christian literature from the 2nd to the 4th century. The list includes texts from the LXX and other Greek...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Syndication
Let's try it differently. According to the Jesus Seminar, 18% of the gospels are some kind of historical account. According to Ludemann, only 5%. And these are completely different percentages of the...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Facebook group dedicated to old Greek...
Since you're interested in this stuff, Randy... in Smith and Landau, p. 112, they cite Dr. Panagiotis Agapitos, who referred to the "fluid, cursive style of private hands" and clarified that it is not...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Couchoud's 'Is Marcion's Gospel One of the...
II.The chief problem raised by Marcion's gospel is not that of its reconstruction but that of determining the significance of its close affinity with Luke's. Which served as a basis for the other? "Is...
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Academic Discussion • Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
I was inspired by Peter Kirby's set of iotas and did a set for sigmas. These are not all sigmas but only those that I find somewhat similar to the gymnastic character (40 = III.13 γυµνὸς/γυµνοὶ):1 =...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What is the Gospel episode, for each of the...
Biblical scholars assessing the purpose of the LXX manuscripts attribute them to Jews as long as the manuscript contains the Tetragrammaton YHWH and it is in the form of a scroll. Christians did not...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Niels Lemche, "272 BCE – A Terminus a...
Niels P. Lemche (U. Copenhagen) wrote an essay, April, 2024 athttps://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/article ... rminus-quoI was not persuaded. Others?I am persuaded that Lemche and Gmirkin and others have...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Carrier - Goodacre conversation on the...
Richard Carrier's book, Jesus from Outer Space, has been released in Polish and Greek.My popular market summary of my academic study of Jesus, Jesus from Outer Space, is now available in Greek and...
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