Christian Texts and History • Re: Ellegard's Argument from Notoriety to fix...
Very a strange Paulinist, one who believes that Jesus was born "by woman" (I assume that the bit in Gal 4:4 is an anti-Marcionite interpolation).I curious what you mean by this. Do you believe that...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Van Manen about *Ev being a diplomatic Gospel
The apparent contradiction of *Ev sounding too much Judaizing for their presumed authors Cerdo and Marcion (i..e the same fabricators of the Pauline epistles where, in their first version, the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Van Manen about *Ev being a diplomatic Gospel
Obviously *Ev 17 (and Mark 13) is good evidence of Judaizers interpreting the news about various messianists (of the late first century) as the news about Jesus himself. Hence the need of a reaction...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Origen on the heterodox
In his 1927 essay 'On the Trail of Marcion'*, the always-interesting J. Rendel Harris sketched the influence of Marcionite arguments into the medieval period. One instance is the case of Elisha and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Works which explore the full emotional...
Inspired by this study: https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... tudy-findsFor example, while the concept of “love” is closely linked to “like” and “want” in Indo-European languages, it is strongly...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Works which explore the full emotional...
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View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Which gnostic tradition did the story of...
TLDR - did the story of Sophia and the creation of the demiurge come from the Sethites, Ophites, or Barbeloites initially? Thank you!Originally the story of Sophia and the creation of the demiurge...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
I had a nice phone call with Peter, and he advised me that Smith college is where Quesnell’s secret mark stuff is archived at. I browsed over there, and there is news!!They do not have the negatives...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Barnabas and the Gospel of Mark
Thanks for all these references.If we can confidently date Barnabas to 70-75, then it would be easy to demonstrate that Mark borrowed from this epistleWe probably can't place any text to any specific...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: *Ev precedes Mark because Mark knew the...
The bigger problem is that the Gospel of Mark and *Ev are essentially the same story, but the Gospel of Mark has many more and much tighter parallels to both the Jewish scriptures and the Pauline...
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 • The Hebrew Name "Seneca" (Σενέκας)
Both Eusebius and Epiphanius (undoubtedly from Hegesippus) have a Jerusalem bishop named "Seneca" (Σενέκας):James, who was martyred in Jerusalem by beating with a cudgel.[He lived] until the time of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Hebrew Name "Seneca" (Σενέκας)
Though I don't know, if you haven't checked (I don't have these 4 volumes at hand), I can suggest that you check:Lexicon of Jewish names in late antiquity /Tal Ilan; Thomas Ziem; Kerstin...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Klinghardt on ‘abolishing the Law &...
I think that Klinghardt's argument here is wrong. Marcion does not put the Jewish accusations in the light of “forgeries against Jesus,” but in the light of “the true, literal claims of the Jews.” I...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Van Manen about *Ev being a diplomatic Gospel
I have read this review of the Van Manen's view: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23660983It seems that according to Van Manen both Mark and *Ev (and a lot of other gospels) are all based on the lost...
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Christian Texts and History • omega-rho
Any study of the omega-rho margin symbol?Short for:hWRAION ὡραῖονbeautiful, nice, seasonable, timelyWhen did it begin?How is it used?Used by a corrector in Sinaiticus.Maybe also...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • The Narrative Structure of the Hexaemeron
Greetings,I would like to invite those familiar with the six day account of creation in Genesis 1 to critique the findings of my paper The Narrative Structure of the Hexaemeron on Academia (apologies...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Alexander the Great article (May/June...
"Alexander the Great's Untold Story"https://www.archaeology.org/issues/550- ... at-originsStatistics: Posted by billd89 — Tue May 21, 2024 7:43 pm
View ArticleOther Texts and History • Religious History
The Day A Pope Gave Ireland Away! The Theft and Fraudulent Gift of Ireland to England.Iwerddon/Ireland in the 12th century was a patchwork of kingdoms and chiefdoms all vying for power over...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Prophecy
It's been almost ten years since I started this thread. Where does the time go? But I thought I'd bring it back to address my latest issue with prophecy. Over the thirty years I've studied the Bible,...
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