Christian Texts and History • Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
We seem to have solid evidence of the existence of Macrina the Elder the grandmother of Basil Gregory of Nyssa and (if she existed) Macrina the younger. Given the widespread practice of naming...
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Classical Texts and History • Sargon Hypothesis
This scientist's theory sounds clever!https://phys.org/news/2024-05-assyriolo ... ry-bc.htmlDr. Martin Worthington of Trinity's School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies has proposed a new...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
[ Nazara entered the Jesus tradition before Nazareth did.FWIW Marcion's Evangelion (which is our earliest witness to the text of Luke) has "Nazareth", not "Nazara". Tertullian doesn't note a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Peter Schäfer on the origin of the accusation...
Peter Schäfer, Jesus in the Talmud, p. 122, my bold:It is left to the vicious acumen of Tertullian to summarize what the Jews think of Jesus. When he vividly imagines the last day of judgment—with the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Gal 3:1 written against a canonical?
"O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?"Assuming for a moment the purpose of Galatians as a polemic tract against this perverted...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Peter Schäfer on the origin of the...
Hence, in the chronological order: Jesus is undated in time and space. Anti-demiurgist Christians appeared on the scene in the Diaspora. At least a Samaritan, "Simon Magus", was one of them. Jews in...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Secret Mark and the Loisy's Argument from...
Loisy:In any case the descent from heaven to Capernaum is queer rather than impressive.If the Argument from Queerness has to be applied to prove that the Marcionite incipit has to be based on a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Carrier - Goodacre conversation on the...
How so?Well, it was a long time ago, so I don't remember specifically.....I just remembered, at the end of the debate, that somebody who spends their entire professional life studying the gospels,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Sabar's New Morton Smith Article
Since it's not 1950 and we're not in kindergarten, let's put away these ad hom arguments. They are beneath the dignity of academic professionals, and --more to the point--ad hom is a fallacious form...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: might help explain why there are no copies...
Almost certainly pseudo-Cyril and the quotation from the Gospel of the Hebrews may be doubtful.See Pseudo CyrilAndrew CriddleStatistics: Posted by andrewcriddle — Mon May 06, 2024 12:45 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
Just short infohttps://www.bn.org.pl/aktualnosci/4789- ... -nprh.htmlStatistics: Posted by JarekS — Mon May 06, 2024 8:55 pm
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
Because of which characters are represented in ligature form (ος) and which are not, we can discard the suggestions that the ligature used in the text is -μενος or "-νος," and we can understand...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Why Matthew doubled the Gerasene Demonic (Paul)...
In * Ev 8:26-39 the Gerasene Demonic is only one:26 Then they arrived at the region of the Gerasenes,[a] which is opposite Galilee. 27 As he stepped out on shore, a man from the city who had demons...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Possible textual evidence that Mark came...
you leave out oral tradition and stuff we don't know about to inform Mark's omission of Joseph. there's no reason to think mark knows matthew when there could be any number of reasons why, rumours...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Nut, as The Milky Way
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View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Why Matthew
In * Ev 8:31 They begged him not to order them to go back into the abyss.... 33 Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd stampeded down the steep bank into the lake and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Proposition: There are Three Major Classes...
Fundamental Key Field in any Relational (Factual) Database for Christian Origins are the extant texts themselvesForget Jesus, Marcion, Tertullian, Eusebius, Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Why Matthew doubled the Gerasene Demonic...
Matthew loves to double all kinds of things. Double blind men healed....he even rides into Jerusalem on a donkey and a horse!! Is the Donkey James and the colt Paul?Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleOther Texts and History • The Nebra Sky Disk
News to me. And never discussed here, before? This is quite a First:Dated by most to the Bronze Age, the Nebra Sky Disc is the oldest-known depiction of the...
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Other Texts and History • The Empty Tomb
This place doesn't have enough Zombie threads. News! A “zombie grave” was recently found in Oppin, Germany, according to a Facebook post from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology...
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