Christian Texts and History • Re: References to using the imagination in the...
Imagination is a tricky term and may mean different things in different cultures. You maybe should read a historical analysis like Imagination by the late John Cocking. Andrew CriddleStatistics:...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Your Dating is Wrong, Again.
Well, someone is Wrong on the Internet, and another is wrong in print: The authors of these texts have also borrowed material from other writings of Porphyry and, as a consequence, these texts display...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Sethian Gnosticism, in its Origins
Just to clarify. We are talking specifically about the Platonizing Sethian texts like Zostrianos or Allogenes, not the version found in the Apocryphon of John which is earlier, maybe much earlier. The...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Note at the end of Sinaiticus Job?
Funny that your still repeat this lie, although you have already admitted that this point is wrong. The Codex Friderico-Augustanus isn't white and has stains on every single page.Try to be specific,...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Prophecy
As far as Judaism goes, the explanations for why prophecy ended (or radically toned down) aren't satisfying. My assessment of the OT is that prophecy (as a concept) has not ended (and will even spread...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Dionysos, for Pseudo-?Hecataeus of Abdera ?
More as a note to myself, something to follow-up on...Excerpted from the above text "Making Mysteries. From the Untergang der Mysterien to Imperial Mysteries – Social Discourse in Religion and the...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Hans Lewy in Palestine (PHOTO)
New article (published in JRB Winter 2023), on the Pilegesh Circle of Jerusalem.This is only the second photograph that I have ever seen of Hans Lewy. I will guess "1937": Lewy would be 35yo, seated...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Dave Allen's three supposedly pre-Eusebian...
https://kenolsonsblog.wordpress.com/202 ... flavianum/In that blog post I concluded:There is thus a clear line of transmission from Eusebius to George Hamartolos to the Chronographer. This does not...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Early Christian Writings is upgrading...
'Push Notifications' are a nice feature.Statistics: Posted by lsayre — Sun May 26, 2024 9:31 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • On Literary Coincidences (and Secret Mark)
Have not fact checked this https://youtube.com/shorts/Oigm-ZERmWQ? ... M9ChK-sXJXStatistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Sun May 26, 2024 12:39 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On Literary Coincidences (and Secret Mark)
Whatever the facts may be about Poe and Pym, what might you be suggesting in relation to "Secret Mark"?Statistics: Posted by StephenGoranson — Sun May 26, 2024 2:50 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Which gnostic tradition did the story of...
I think we have good reason to date the Chaldean (or pseudo-Chaldean) oracles to the reign of Marcus Aurelius. See Julian Theurgistes and the Rain MiracleAndrew CriddleStatistics: Posted by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Favorable references to Samaria and Samaritans...
A further reason to think that *Ev preceded Mark is that Pilate has to be fully enumerated among the 'favorable references to Samaria and Samaritans' introduced by Cerdo: So, although I think Cerdo...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The we-narrative in Acts as solution to the...
Reading with more attention Van Manen via Thomas Whittaker, I think that I have found the reason why he insists so much on the Acts of the Apostles.The presence of a source behind the Acts of the...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Numenius of Apamea was Jewish?
Intriguing suggestion. Where has this been developed further, before 1934?Presumably, Jonas means Numenius of Apamea and Philo of Byblos were both 'maybe' Jewish, viz., by detailing Jewish angles....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Red Herring
The Chaldean Oracles (and its date) is utterly irrelevant to the OP, to the Sophia-Ialdaboath mythos, to Sethians (Sethites, Ophites, Barbeloites, etc.), the question of the OP, and to the topic...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The history of early Christianity in brief.
Year 94 CE - Josephus's book Jewish Antiquities appears on the market. It is read privately, publicly, and its stories are passed on by direct and indirect listeners. Of particular interest is the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The history of early Christianity in brief.
For me, the whole TF thing is legit because I finally read Josephus myself and I know what author I’m dealing with. Jesus is a romantic hero like a highwayman from folk tales. He was crucified, but...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Christian Messiah Claimants!
First, sorry for my tardiness in getting back to you on your comment, I have to wait for assistance to do my typing and posting. You can't get the staff these days. I believe my amanuensis is making...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Reality of Book Publishing, as a Start
For me, the whole TF thing is legit because I finally read Josephus myself and I know what author I’m dealing with.SO if I finally read something, and I conclude that I grokk the Author, then I can...
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