Christian Texts and History • Mark knew Paul the Persecutor therefore *Ev...
What about this argument?FACT: In the marcionite Galatians there was none trace of Paul the Persecutor. The latter was a Catholic addition.FACT: Mark betrayes knowledge of Paul the Persecutor. *Ev...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Mark knew Paul the Persecutor therefore *Ev...
Evidence that Mark knew Paul the Persecutor:Mark 1:9 is based on Galatians 1:14.Mark 1:36-37 is based on Galatians 1:23.Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Wed May 15, 2024 9:32 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Dave Allen's three supposedly pre-Eusebian...
We have an alternative:1. TF was written by Eusebius or someone else around the 4th century CE and inserted into Ant Josephus. Luke's signature language was used.2. The TF is authentic and it was Luke...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • ChatGPT on the Classes of Christian Literature
What are the commonly used classes or categories of Christian literature from antiquity?ChatGPTChristian literature from antiquity, broadly defined as writings from the first several centuries of the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Proposition: There are Three Major Classes...
LC previously wrote, Thu Oct 19, 2023 6:49 pm, in part:"...how are we supposed to start looking at the historical evidence? It looks like a mess. Unless you have some better ideas I'm just trying to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Possible Hebraisms in Hegesippus
Ἦσαν δὲ γνῶμαι διάφοροι ἐν τῇ τῇ περιτομῇ ἐν υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ, τῶν κατὰ τῆς φυλῆς Ἰούδα καὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, αὗται· Ἐσσαῖοι· Γαλιλαῖοι· Ἡμεροβαπτισταί· Μασβωθαῖοι· Σαμαρεῖται· Σαδδουκαῖοι· Φαρισαῖοι.τῇ τῇ...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Bob Price, David Trobisch, RG Price and...
There are many reasons to conclude that Marcion's scriptures weren't the earliest and that the scriptures used by Marcion weren't created by him. And there are no reasonable proposals for how you get...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Revisiting Philo's DVC: AI-assisted translation
Having been long frustrated by the terrible translation of Young [1855] and the lacking translation of Colson [1929], I needed to put together something more precise for the mysticism alluded to, the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Possible Hebraisms in Hegesippus
Whether there are possible Hebraisms in Hegesippus is an interesting question.For now I comment merely on one small portion of the OP.In "Ἐσσαῖοι (Essenes): Reflects Hebrew אִסִּיִּים...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: *Ev precedes Mark because Mark knew the...
Tertullian is just speculating. Another case, the miracle of loaves and fishes. In Mark the miracle of loaves and fishes is very well thought out and is clearly based on the miracle of Elisha. In *Ev...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Last nail on the Testimonium Flavianum. Again.
What does Carrier gain by putting Pamphilus on 'the suspect list'. ?Eusebius is pretty important to our understanding of the early Christian church. Many people see the interpolated TF as a dishonest...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • ChatGPT has evolved!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... te-productAccording to OpenAI, this is the new normal: an AI model that can “reason across audio, vision and text in real time”. It appears, at first...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Revisiting Philo's DVC: AI-assisted translation
Having been long frustrated by the terrible translation of Young [1855] and the lacking translation of Colson [1929], I needed to put together something more precise for the mysticism alluded to, the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Using ChatGPT
LLMs have changed my life when it came to translating.The answers to questions reinscribe conventions and typically conform to the request made.Why is it historically anachronistic to apply the...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Why is the LXX Rahlfs Deut 6:4 so verbose?
It seems odd that it is translated as, "Hear O' Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one." I mean the LXX has the word "Aigyptos" in it. Why omit that in an English translation? It seems to be a poor...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Basilides on the ambiguous relation between...
It seems that according to Basilides, Jesus had to be the son of YHWH, since only in this way Jesus could convert YHWH himself, by sitting at his side after the crucifixion. The Gospel then came, says...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Why is the LXX Rahlfs Deut 6:4 so verbose?
It seems odd that it is translated as, "Hear O' Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one." I mean the LXX has the word "Aigyptos" in it. Why omit that in an English translation? It seems to be a poor...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Pronoun Problem in Irenaeus' "Against...
Stepping back from Irenaeus' farrago, it's worthwhile to note that in antiquity there was, in general, a 'single sex' understanding of biology : females were incomplete males. Thus a male could be...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Dave Allen's three supposedly pre-Eusebian...
More recent scholarship - Carson Bay, David Devore, an Richard M. Pollard, all lean toward (or outright affirm) Pseudo-Hegesippus' use of Eusebius.Also not to be neglected:Agnès Molinier-Arbo, ‘Crime...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Proposition: There are Three Major Classes...
I suggest the "implications" of "assumptions" above,specifically:"a) Authors in Groups 1, 2 and 3 are probably distinct to their group and do not overlap into other groups."is an example of "just...
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