Christian Texts and History • Re: Gospel muteness as evidence of anti-marcionism
This is Vinzent's problem - he deals with side issues and avoids real problems. The only significant problem of this Vinzent-Trobisch-Klinghardt environment is to indicate and prove that *Ev, which...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Morton Smith regarding the Writer/Copyist
Morton Smith makes a number of observations regarding the circumstances of the 18th century copyist:Clement of Alexandria, p. 2That the writer was a scholar is also shown by his spelling. Although...
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Classical Texts and History • Re: Nut, as The Milky Way
If you haven't read it I highly recommend Hornung's Idea into Image. It delves into Egyptian view of reality. They were almost primitive phenomenologists. All matter was of the same indivisible...
View ArticleGeneral Religious Discussion • Daybell Cult: Castings, Zombies, etc.
Is anyone else following the Daybell Murder Trial? Wow.https://www.ksl.com/article/51004528/wi ... g-3-deathsStatistics: Posted by billd89 — Wed May 08, 2024 4:19 am
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Delicacies
There aren't enough Food Threads, here. Lately, I've become somewhat fascinated by this ancient condiment, fermented fish oil. Liquamen, aka Garum. https://www.archaeology.org/news/12375- ......
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
Clarification and correction. Above in this thread, Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:17 pm, I wrote:""MS got early liturgy wrong." Wrong for what fit Clement in Egypt.This, supported from, iirc, Robin Jenson (a...
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...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Decapolis ?
The narrative is set in the Decapolis a Hellenistic enclave in the region of Palestine. Andrew CriddleThe narrative is set by the Sea. That's a key point in the story (which may have been moved...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • A Collection of Letters attributed to Clement of Rome
Under the name of Clement of Rome have circulated multiple letters:(1) The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, generally regarded as authentic(2) The Second Epistle of Clement to the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • John of Damascus, Mar Saba, no mention of...
John of Damascus, who was at Mar Saba from circa 715 to 750, wrote about heresies, many of those previously included in Epiphanius, Panarion, including Carpocratians, plus some newer ones.Carpocrates...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Wide ranging study on Christian forgery?
This represents both an exhibit and a collection of essays on forgery. It is very wide ranging and very interesting. It does include a number of Christian forgeries including the Donation of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: How accurate would be this interpretation...
Maybe my questions are worded terribly, or maybe nobody wants to speculate on this.Messianic prophecy. Non answer really. Exploits the ambiguity of the question and provides the appearance of an...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Cerdo/Kerdo/Kerdon
e Tertullian Against Marcion 1.2The heretic of Pontus introduces two Gods, like the twin Symplegades of his own shipwreck: One whom it was impossible to deny, ie. our Creator; and one whom he will...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • What do we know about how early Christians...
In the psalms, you occasionally see the act of speaking to one’s soul, or asking or persuading the soul. Augustine makes use of inner dialogue in his...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What is the evidence that the Simonians...
i would caution bringing any 'Simonians' into thiswe can say something about Cerdon and co. but there's absolutely nothing we can say about an even earlier group the 'Simonians'for all we know those...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Rome and early Christianity
Various posts here propose that Rome invented Christianity.I won't attempt a summary version of those various proposals because they do not, even remotely, agree with one another.Roman religion, early...
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Academic Discussion • Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
5. But Tselikas is no lightweight. I can surely believe that he, looking at the photos, would see an iota. Tselikas also saw an iota in I.2 ἐπιστοµίσας / ἐπιστοµίσαι:Statistics: Posted by AdamKvanta —...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Simonians
M David Litwa's very recently published book, Simon of Samariaa and the Simonians: Contours of an Early Christian Movement, outlines..."a distinctly "Simonian" version of Christianity between the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Simonians
Eusebius' Eccl. hist. II.1.10-12:(paraphrases Acts 8:9-13 and misrepresents Simon as being called the Great Power, as does Acts 8: Simon in both is an emphatic personification of Simonian theology)So...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Rome and early Christianity
What about the hypothesis, “Romans / Alexandrians invented Christianity”? Lots of commonality between Philo and Christianity; Philo writes in the same time period; Philo’s writings were treasured by...
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