Christian Texts and History • Re: According to Gill’s Exposition, the...
I checked in Luke the New Testament in Greek 1984 and "two shall be separated from three, and one shall be separated from two" is listed (volume 1 page 296) as the reading of (some) Ethiopic...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What do we know about how early Christians...
Some who call Augustine the first psychologist, iirc, add, suggest, that ancient people earlier than him typically had less inner dialogue than he did.Statistics: Posted by StephenGoranson — Sat May...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
I considered other options, Joe.Statistics: Posted by StephenGoranson — Mon May 13, 2024 4:51 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Using ChatGPT
I just spent almost a week thinking about and then writing a seven page essay entitled "Primary and Secondary Sources & the History of Christian Literature". If anyone is interested here is a link...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Manuscripts of the "Fathers" are...
So supposing we are trying to write a history of Christian origins for the first two centuries. What does the history of Christianity (the NT writings and the "Universal Church") in the early...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The refusal of a sign as a Judaizing passage...
When the crowd gathered with him, he began to speak, "This generation is an evil generation. It demands a sign, but a sign will be given to it".(*Ev 11:29)Why is it a judaizing passage? Because the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Woe on Unrepentant Capernaum explained by...
Matthew 11:20-24: 20 Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The refusal of a sign as a Judaizing...
This is the problem with the gospels. Even *Ev is a receptacle of different theologies, therefore Marcion was not so free from partial compromises with the ideology of the his own opponents.Well,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Excerpts from Volkmar, 'The Religion of Jesus,'...
Dr. Gustav Volkmar, 'The Religion of Jesus and its first development according to the current state of science', to Mr. Privy Councillor, Dr. Punsen, at Heidelberg, 1857387 [p.194 of the pdf...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Excerpts from Volkmar, 'The Religion of...
403rise of monotheistic consciousness with the Gnostic flow and its speculation appears in all the writings...from 120 to 135 ...405The Paulinism touched by Gnosis and rooted in monotheism polemically...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Matthew 23:7 as evidence of the...
I'm sorry, really trying to parse this here. As far as I can see, you've replaced one word with a completely different word, and concluded that this would alter the passage's meaning. Do I have that...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • *Ev precedes Mark because Mark knew the...
The proof is the following:FACT: Mark knew the pauline epistlesFACT: before Marcion, none knew the epistles of Paul (apart the teacher of Marcion: Cerdon).FACT: Marcion made the epistles known in the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: *Ev precedes Mark because Mark knew the...
In the case the last counter-objection is not fully understood by the reader: it is 100% expected that the presentation of Paul (I mean 'presentation' in the sense of 'launch') had been made in the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Pronoun Problem in Irenaeus' "Against...
fwiw, in chronological order by year: Williams, “Uses of Gender Imagery in Ancient Gnostic Texts,” in Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols; edited by Caroline Walker Bynum, Stevan...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Which gnostic tradition did the story of Sophia...
Hi all,I've been reading some works by John Turner and Tuomas Rasimus, who theorize that popular gnostic texts, such as the Secret Book of John, were actually amalgamations by three different gnostic...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • What do you believe?
Locating and dating Sethites, Ophites, or Barbeloites would answer your question most precisely. Perhaps of interest, my earlier post "The Pauline Abortion as Hermetic/Gnostic Trope" here.I've posted...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Does ransom theory indicate Jesus was...
One frequently co-occuring component of the ransom myth is that the Son of God was killed without awareness of his true identity, which does fit quite nicely into the idea of appearing as a man among...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Do all Roads Lead to Eusebius: Antiquities...
For those wondering, there has been a relative increase in recent literature arguing against the authenticity of 20.200 or at least claiming (without argument) it is inauthentic:Would you happen to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Origen on the heterodox
At In First Principles 2.5.4, Origen cites two main Marcionite proof-texts which, as they involve exegesis, may well derive from the Antitheses.(1) "But once again they recall us to the words of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Dave Allen's three supposedly pre-Eusebian...
This post is adapted from one I made on the Historical Jesus Facebook group on September 9, 2023:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1038530 ... /525953597Sorry, this is a long one -- It appears that Dave...
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