Christian Texts and History • Re: Was Damascus in Arabia? (Maybe Acts is more...
As far as I can tell, this fits my thesis that Paul of Tarsus (a city in Cilicia) moved to Damascus (Syria/Arabia) where he "pursued the assembly" of Jesus' followers with the intent "to destroy it."...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Lena Einhorn - A Shift In Time
This is to let you know that my book A Shift in Time had been translated to Italian, by Roberto Berardi:https://www.amazon.it/Uno-slittamento-t ... ks&sr=1-14Statistics: Posted by Lena Einhorn —...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Do we know how the children of martyrs were...
Just curious if there are any church fathers who have written about this. The issue must have come up when the Christians faced persecution in the early centuries.Origen as a teenager was given...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Clement of Alexandria and secret letters
This passage in the ANF translation of Stromateis V "For I know," says the apostle, "that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ;" Romans 15:29 designating the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Eznik of Kolb's supposed "Refutation...
Found this fascinating quote in Eznik's refutation of heresies:"And he would give orders that no one disclose the idea. That one, Mahmi the demon heard this, he quickly reached Ohrmizd and divulged...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: New article on the Quest of the historical...
Only those hypotheses which provide the most likely reconstruction of Jesus as an intelligible actor within the first-century Palestine under Roman and Herodian rule are adequate from an...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Bruno Bauer on Galatians 2:6
Neil wanted to post this long comment probably here but unfortunately he has been banned permanently for disputes of little interest (at least to me) about the OT. I report the Neil's remark that also...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Black Sabbath Opens For Nazareth
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View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Kate Leeming on the Slavonic Version of...
Side note but does the Phoias story seem to imply that Cerealius was one of those crushed to death by the board they throw down? Because, if so, this couldn't possibly come from Josephus because the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • I Am IronyMan
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View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Pillar John is John Mark of Acts 15:37
Whom does the so-called circumcision party of Gal. ii, 12 consist of? In the writer’s mind, probably Judas and Silas, who in Acts xv, 32 deliver the apostolic decree to Antioch. According to certain...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Pillar John is John Mark of Acts 15:37
The irony then is that in the gospel of Mark, "John son of Zebedee" is a caustic parody of "John Mark" aka 'John the Pillar', i.e. a caustic parody of the same Catholic figure introduced as author of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: New article on the Quest of the historical...
From an earlier generation but interesting there is Jesus the Nazarene: Myth or History? by Maurice Goguel.Thanks for the reference, Andrew, it looks interesting.Statistics: Posted by GakuseiDon — Tue...
View ArticleOther Texts and History • "Script origin and typology"
If you are interested in the history of writing systems, and their different kinds, here is a fine introduction, "A Study of Origins," by Peter T. Daniels:https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/? ......
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Luke and Flavius Josephus were...
If Agrippa II died before Josephus did, that limits some of the above speculation. IfAccording to the patriarch Photius I of Constantinople, Agrippa died childless at the age of seventy, in the third...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Cephas (according to Paul)
A lot of response to my previous comments. So, I will give my replies, as I am able to.Agreed (ref MrMacSon, 01 July) that it is only according to Acts that Paul/Saul is shown to be fluent 'in the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: An intriguing quote by Eusebius, Church...
Is there a translation of Revelation that tries its best to translate the solecisms into English?Statistics: Posted by allegoria — Tue Jul 02, 2024 4:27 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Example of a Greek Manuscript Written in the...
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View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Example of a Greek Manuscript Written in...
Of course it is possible for a Greek text to be handwritten "in the blank pages of a printed book."But this is not one of those.Rather, it is a printed book bound together with a handwritten...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Why does Paul say that Jesus was "born...
Why does Paul say that Jesus was "born of a woman"?Why not? Children, in this case a male child, are born from women (not from men)Was Paul talking literally - i.e. flesh and blood - or was he writing...
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