Christian Texts and History • Re: The Amalgam Jesus idea implies that two...
Ultimately you just get back to a Jewish guy named Jesus/Joshua who caused some trouble, and afterwards his followers believed various things about him and started a movement in his name. You're just...
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BTW - As one of the few willing to express arguments on the forum that support the hypothesis of the historicity of Jesus, I appreciate the conciliatory ambiguity in the phrase "perceptions of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Is it untenable?
Consider the following, all of which is disputed, some more than others: Paul wrote several letters in the mid-first century. Peter, with help from others such as the named Silvanus, wrote one letter...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is it untenable?
Consider the following, all of which is disputed, some more than others: Paul wrote several letters in the mid-first century. I am going to doubt about this precise point, insofar I am going to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Considerations on when Jesus lived and...
You got a better suggestion?As I said, I may be just policing language here, but what a "scriptural interpretation" or "exegesis"?Statistics: Posted by jasonrollins — Tue Jun 11, 2024 4:42 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Example of persistent (tertullianesque)...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10 ... lCode=jntaThis article examines the passage in light of the Elijah motif running throughout Luke–Acts, which is consistent in creating a positive link...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Did Mark borrow the beginning of the gospel...
p.344A “kingdom without end” (imperium sine fine [31] ) – spatially and temporally – is just one of many symmetries between Augustan and Markan myth-making. Another pregnant term is the very word...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Example of persistent (tertullianesque)...
.The Bad Samaritans: The Elijah Motif in Luke 9.51-56AbstractThe parallel between Jesus and Elijah in the account of the Samaritan village (Lk. 9:51-56; cf. 2 Kgs 1:1-16), though recognized for...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Judaism/Jesus & Hinduism/Gautama...
Judaism and Hinduism are not easy to define, as they are each quite various, but both were, mostly, ethnic religions into which one was born.Jesus and Gautama Buddha came into each as a native, yet...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • NT on Sadducees & Pharisees; Philo on Essenes.
In extant works:As is well known, Josephus mentions, by name, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes.NT mentions, by name, Pharisees and Sadducees, but not Essenes.Philo mentions, by name, Essenes, but not...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Judaism/Jesus & Hinduism/Gautama...
Seems plausible. The transition from local to universal.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Wed Jun 12, 2024 4:26 pm
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: NT on Sadducees & Pharisees; Philo on Essenes.
Josephus - was trying to list them all? to provide an overview of aspects of JudaismPhilo - wasn't trying to list them all? but was interested in the EssenesNT - also wasn't, but Jesus came into...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Jewish Version of "The Twelve Days of...
The song posted by SA seems similar to a ditty my dad taught us to sing for one of his famous new years eve parties for his bosses and friends from work, sung with tume of 12 days of christmas, but...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Claude's Creativity
https://religionunplugged.com/news/2024 ... trite-poetAs I’ve been working with lots of rabbinic references recently, I’ve asked Claude for citations on certain subjects, and once again, the pattern...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Most Manuscripts are not Primary Sources
@StephenGoranson: While I am waiting for your explanatory response to Arnaldo Momigliano's plain and simple comparison between classical scholars as "the outsiders" and biblical scholars as "the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Two Witnesses to the Crucifixion of Jesus...
There's a hundred ideas way more speculative floated all the time, but the historicity of Jesus is treated like so much kryptonite. That isn't simply because of the state of the evidence.At the same...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Bruno Bauer on Galatians 2:6
If you mean why the ὁποῖοί ποτε ἦσαν, οὐδέν μοι διαφέρει, 'whatever they were formerly, makes no difference to me'. Paul is saying that whatever status they were reputed to have had among human beings...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • About Paul
There are no criteria that could determine the authenticity of the letters and Paul himself (as the author) based on textual analyses.Regardless of the consensus, both conflicting solutions are...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: About Paul
Can you describe in detail your definitive view about the relation between the oldest (lost) gospel and the (Pseudo-)pauline epistles?Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Thu Jun 13, 2024 8:24 pm
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Academic Discussion • Re: 'Judaism' such as it was in Egypt
I said that Pharisees or Sadducees were likely not that influential in Alexandria. A settlement of Zadokite (old order) priests, in exile, at the Egyptian temple to YHWH, sure. I do beieve that some...
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