Christian Texts and History • Re: Volkmar now available in English!
The city on seven hills that rules over the kings of the earth is Rome, the code word for which was Babylon. Rome was anciently known as the city on seven hills. Britannica article...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: A Coincidence theorist's summary of the...
"Coincidences" abound, everywhere e.g. Barnabas just happens to coincidentally have been published in Greek by Simonides in 1843, before the 1859 Sinaiticus publication by Tischendorf. There are solid...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What is really the Kate Leeming's current...
There are 4 items that invite to question the hypothesis of a total interpolation of the Slavonic passage on Jesus:1) Jesus is unnamed: where is the Christian irony here?2) it is said that the action...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Toward the End of the Conspiracy Theory...
I did it. I did it in a minute. It's complete and thanks to all you for helping. This really is collaborative scholarship at its best. Appreciate it. Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Mon Jan 08,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • young and old leaves from the same manuscript ???
And the fragment that one of those two monks used in the binding was already a fragment when it was reused;in other words, in the 1700s, that fragment was already worn and already quiteOLD.We often...
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Christian Texts and History • nice 180-year-old parchment and ink, the London...
Also obvious: portions of the codex were separated and experienced differing storage environments, with differing preservation outcomes.Portions of Joshua did not fare well.As is also similarly seen...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Letter from Irenaeus to Florinus?
What is the option of the Letter from Irenaeus to Florinus?These opinions, Florinus, that I may speak in mild terms, are not of sound doctrine; these opinions are not consonant to the Church, and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Was Πάνταινον a Cryptic Reference to the...
Alexander of Aphrodisias lived at the time of Clement. He uses the terminology in the same manner. Philo too. See other thread.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:58 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Didache [of Bryennius] is not an...
(moved the followups to the thread because the Didache is in the canon.)From what I can gather from Wikipedia (search made in 2019), the Apostolic Constitutions drew from the following five main...
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View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Early Christian Ebionaen Canon
The Phaulines are perfectly Christian, as they attempt subliminally to sell non-Jewish rites as fulfillment of the Law and the prophets of the Old Testament, centred around the Messiah as the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • the 1711 Whiston work from Arabic manuscripts
Unlike Tischenduper and Bryennius, I trust Whiston, so I'll go back to his Apostolic Constitutions, but maybe I'll avoid the version "improved" by Donaldson. But we still don't know what manuscript...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: John the Baptist Passage interpolated in...
No, I'm not saying that without the knowledge of Hegesippus from Eusebius I would necessarily believe that Josephus wrote 'called Christ' in Ant. 20.200. If I remember well the Carrier's article on...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Pliny on the Essenes
Rereading Pliny on the Essenes:Some Bibliographic NotesStephen GoransonDuke UniversityThe account of the Essenes which Pliny included in his compendious work Natural History (5.73) has attracted...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Zinner's argument about the Testimonium...
About the relation between the Emmaus episode and the TF, Richard Carrier writes:On this much I agree with Goldberg: his previous demonstration that the TF is just mindlessly, uncritically, and...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
Another example from Codex Sinaiticus, this time concerning the name Ἰησοῦς (Jesus). In the Epistle to the Hebrews, the anonymous author writes:5 And again in this place he said,“They shall never...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Secret Mark Rome and Alexandria
Epiphanius maybe following Hegesippus puts the deaths of Peter and Paul in the twelfth year of Nero. See discussion at viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2101 This may be the earliest traditional date which has...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Rejecting all oral traditions, not largely but...
Please qualify that by Torah you mean "written Torah", the Old Testament, as I do."Torah" in this context for me means the first five books of the OT, since Jesus largely rejected the oral Torah, like...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Problem of Paul and Marcionism
a) Do you think Luke and Acts had the same author? It's curious to see above (Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:37 am) these pitted against each other.b) About "....I'll leave you to your duplicity"--imo, this is a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Zinner's argument about the Testimonium...
Goldberg presented last March at the SBL Global Virtual Meeting. He distributed a mature draft of his statistical argument, and his 1995 paper.My personal interpretation is that the new statistical...
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