Christian Texts and History • Re: The history of early Christianity in brief.
time jump...313 CE Christianity becomes a legal religion. The Marcionites take advantage of their religious freedom by building a church in a small village. The first church building that we know...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • The Bible
As a non-believer who lives in a culture that reveres the Bible, the older I get, the stranger it seems that those who revere and promote the values of the Bible live in ways that are the opposite of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Cost of codex vs scroll?
It is a known fact that virtually all Christian scriptures were produced on codices. The codex was quite new in the 2nd century and not widely adopted. It occurs to me that the use of codices would...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Cost of codex vs scroll?
From a review of Lionel Casson's Libraries in the Ancient World the author provides some statistics regarding the appearance of codices and the transition in the ancient world from the technology of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: are you biased?
I try hard not to be biased. It's everyone else -- at least the ones with a differing opinion -- that needs to reflect on their biases! Like Mythicists (who 'hate God' if they are atheists, or are...
View ArticleGeneral Religious Discussion • Why Historical Apologetics is Useless
This has always been the problem:https://www.caseagainstfaith.com/why-hi ... eless.htmlWhat I wish to point out up front is that it doesn’t matter even if the Christians are right, in regards to their...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Survivors of Pompeii
Interesting articlehttps://theconversation.com/records-of- ... ves-230641Statistics: Posted by billd89 — Fri Jun 07, 2024 6:47 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Proposition: There are Three Major Classes...
LC:"Do you seriously contemplate that there would be no raised Greek eyebrows as a result of this imperially supported Jesus Story Book novelty?""Jesus Story" was not a novelty in 325.The "Jesus...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Most Manuscripts are not Primary Sources
LC:"In contrast the biblical historical methodology (which you talk about) approaches the definition of "primary sources" differently due to the authority attributed to certain texts, such as the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Thomas L. Brodie would agree with the...
The question is would he agree with the claim that *Ev is by a different ghostwriter than LukeI assume that you mean for "Luke" the name of an author who considered YHWH as supreme god. Even if *Ev...
View ArticleGeneral Religious Discussion • Re: Why Historical Apologetics is Useless
This has always been the problem:https://www.caseagainstfaith.com/why-hi ... eless.html<snip>The point being, once again, sufficient evidence for one situation is not necessarily sufficient for...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The death of a disciple of Jesus
Regarding John 21:23:Because of this, the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple would not die. However, Jesus did not say that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Zen and the Art of Historical Study
Let's start at the beginning.What are we doing here?///What was that?A lot of what gets expressed as study happens without an explicit context. Why do it? What to think about while doing it? What are...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: LLMs are Machiavellian
It's a fine line between "hallucination" and "lie", apparently.https://futurism.com/ai-systems-lie-deceiveMy own theory here: if an AI Model is trained off human responses to give a most likely,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Two Witnesses to the Crucifixion of Jesus...
Mark has this:21 A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross. 22 They brought Jesus to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: My summary of current assessment of...
I've long "wanted" to be able to concludethe first Gospel is a complete fiction.This is the impression that I get about what you've long "wanted" to be able to conclude.Statistics: Posted by Peter...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Myles Lavan: Epistemic Uncertainty, Subjective...
https://direct.mit.edu/jinh/article/50/ ... bility-andFrom a 2019 article in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2019) 50 (1): 91–111.The uncertainties that historians face are clearly...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Using ChatGPT
IMO in order to progress the LLM's the Turing Test needs to be upgraded in order to handle things like satire, parody and irony which may all be possibly gathered under Poe's Law. Often these things...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The death of a disciple of Jesus
I can't help but feel there is a connection there with:1 Cor 15:51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: james eusebius and alexandria
It seems Codex Turonensis Berolin (N) has "secundus episcopus" instead of "ananius": https://books.google.com/books?id=GETnA ... &q&f=falseStatistics: Posted by AdamKvanta — Sun Jun 09, 2024...
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