Christian Texts and History • What is your current definition of Jesus?
The mine is:Jesus is a figure to which sayings and acts were attributed gradually by different anonymous authors in the same time when theological treatises about the same figure were written...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The strongest evidence that Galatians...
I think the pillars must have said something to Paul about these things, since he discusses them in 1 Cor. 7-10 obviously you are assuming an original Paul. The question if Galatians precedes or...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Why Paul is made to go into Arabia in...
It seems to me that your argument is the following:Aretas and Arabia cannot be explained.Therefore they have to be genuine details reported by a genuine Paul.Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Wed Jul...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What is your current definition of Jesus?
I think it's correct to say that a completely pseudonymous Paul, if it were the most probable hypothesis, would decrease the amount of evidence for a historical Jesus figure connected with the origins...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Using ChatGPT
explain this: "The validity of Helmut Koester's thesis in Synoptische Überlieferung bei den Apostolischen Vätern"ChatGPTHelmut Koester's thesis in Synoptische Überlieferung bei den Apostolischen...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Hypothesis: Jesus was born around 6 CE and...
The arguments for the date of birth are based on a simple premise that gLuke's account is correct and gMatthew's account is wrong.The most arguments for the crucifixion date 36 CE are in Kokkinos'...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: An intriguing quote by Eusebius, Church...
So, Chapter 25 of Book of Eusebius's Church History is about The Apocalypse of John, aka the book of Revelation: specifically, based on the way Eusebius says or thinks that Dionysius spoke or wrote...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The ending of the pre-Markan passion narrative
Kirk Robert MacGregor (2018) The ending of the pre-Markan passion narrative Scriptura 117, 1-11. https://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?sc ... 8000100014 (full article)... most exegetes of Mark...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Have fun with Josephus
What is the solution of the enigma? Please share.There is no enigma. It all started with the writings of Josephus, who worked for the Flavian family, and all three: Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The ending of the pre-Markan passion narrative
... my position [is th]at the original version of the story, proto-Mark, was entirely pro-Pauline, based on the Pauline letters and a narrative about Paul, in which all of the major plot elements...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Jesus was born around 6 CE and...
The arguments for the date of birth are based on a simple premise that gLuke's account is correct and gMatthew's account is wrong.The most arguments for the crucifixion date 36 CE are in Kokkinos'...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 'Late Revelations: Rediscovering the...
Litwa argues for the wave model, in which the gospels were constructed a little at a time, with some material composed as early as 30 CE and some composed as late as 130...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: review: The Qumran Con: A Dead Sea Scrolls...
Blessings and curses are at home in the Torah books.Since this thread is a book review, it may be worth noting that the Publisher, Archway Publishing, a self-publishing company, stated in the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: How do you relate the Gospel of the Hebrews...
And do you have any actual conclusions about the relationships of the Gospel of the Hebrews to other texts? What are they?if of some utility, the Gospel of the Hebrews is another name (or version) of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Essential question: did 1 Corinthians 10:5...
The only way a gospel could allow the total absence of Pilate in it is:If the crucifixion was placed in heaven (cfr 1 Cor 2:6-8);If the gospel in question was a mere collection of sayings, as the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Luke and Flavius Josephus were...
This was new to me so I looked it up and found this:Oh, nice find, thanks! The explanation, that you have found, is indeed reasonable.Epaphroditus is also my guess for who wrote Luke and Acts. So for...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • An intriguing quote by Clement of Alexandria,...
for the philosophy which is in accordance with divine tradition establishes and confirms providence, which, being done away with, the economy of the Saviour appears a myth, while we are influenced...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: An intriguing quote by Clement of...
Specifically:for the philosophy which is in accordance with divine tradition establishes and confirms providence, which, being done away with, the economy of the Saviour appears a myth, while we are...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Smart people the original inventors, but not so...
Mythicists often insist that the original gospel was full dense of allegories, etc, that only an erudite and smart guy could decipher all the allegories. I can agree with the 'erudite' attribute, but...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Robert M. Price on 1 Corinthians 2:6-8 as a...
The writer is about to launch into an exposition of Gnostic mystagogy. The preceding verses (1-5) constitute a paralepsis, a retroactive filling of a blank we would not have been aware of till the...
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