Christian Texts and History • Re: New research finds 33 historical...
I've always wondered why Heracles, Jason, Moses, Theseus, etc. are treated as 100% fictional (by some people).Some older publications sometimes give the impression that the author is speaking of...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: "James the Just": What is the...
The implied context is controversy over the identity of "James the Just", a post-NT title for the unidentified "James" of Acts 15. Was he James son of Zebedee, James son of Alphaeus or James the...
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According to a 2016 PhD dissertation by L.S. Ojala (supervised by Martinus C. de Boer, author of Galatians: A Commentary, John Knox, 2011), the "James" of Acts was "the son of Alphaeus".I will quote...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: "James" of Acts 15 was "the...
According to a 2016 PhD dissertation by L.S. Ojala (supervised by Martinus C. de Boer, author of Galatians: A Commentary, John Knox, 2011), the "James" of Acts was "the son of Alphaeus".I will quote...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Irony of Gnostic John 3:16
I find it ironic that John 3:16 has become such a cherished passage by Christians, yet it is clearly Gnostic in origin.Teeple's theory, which I generally agree with, is that the Gospel of John as we...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Irony of Gnostic John 3:16
This passage seems to be in some manner equating the Son of Man (whomever that may be, as this is not specified) with the Serpent (of Moses, and likely also of Genesis). Bottom line: Worship the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Is the Demonic Gadarene the Buddha?
For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him.(Mark 5:4)The Buddha had broken the cycle of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is the Demonic Gadarene the Buddha?
Primary evidence that Gandhara == Gadara.The Persian Achaemenid rock inscriptions of Behistun, Persepolis, Susa Palace, and Naksh-i-Rustum offer us the glimpse of the name Gandhara as "Gadara" when it...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: New research finds 33 historical...
Did you find any hero in that reference class that demonstrably started as non-historical?There are two layers of the class. It divides based on dramatic date. Those in the distant past are all...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Cephas (according to Paul)
I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but I'm now seeing Lk. 24:34 as good evidence that Cephas is Peter. 33And they [Cleophas and an unnamed disciple] got up that very hour and returned to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Johannine letter as first layer of Gospel of John
I want to further develop something I proposed in this thread: viewtopic.php?t=12348Bascially, my hypothesis is that what we call the "Gospel of John" very likely originated as a letter attributed to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Old Latin as a Witness to Proto-Mark
La Vieille latine témoin du Prôto-Marc Christian-B. Amphoux CNRS, Aix-Marseille UniversitéBABELAO 10-11 (2022), p. 89-105© ABELAO (Belgium) https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/babe ......
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Secret Mark and The Old Latin as a Witness...
http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blog ... e.html?m=1Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Fri Jul 19, 2024 10:53 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio latest article June...
On the Self-Styled ‘Refutation’ of the ‘SeditiousJesus Hypothesis’ (Or Jesse Nickel’s – andOthers’ – Wishful Thinking)Bermejo-Rubio. (June 2024 edition of the Journal for the Study of the Historical...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is the Demonic Gadarene the Buddha?
The polemical allusion is against the Buddha, yet. Read here.I don't treat Detering as a god. You need to show exactly what you are referring to. It is useless to send someone to a book without...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: "James" of Acts 15 was "the...
... why Paul separates Cephas from the apostles in 1 Cor 9:5.Perhaps Cephas is Cleophas, the father of the Lord’s brothers.That's doing what I'm trying to avoid, ie retrojecting gospel and later...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Ἐγείρεσθε ἄγωμεν, 'Arise, let us go' in...
The evidence that the author of John used the gospel of Mark is really solid. Your argument about Markan sandwiches that you presented in this video with History Valley is pretty conclusive. It's...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is it Really "Uncertain" that...
The author of the Sacra Parallela (whether or not this is John of Damascus is probably irrelevant here) witnesses to a collection of letters attributed to 'Clement' whom the author of the Sacra...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Photius and the Stromateis: Unveiling a...
I'm not sure if this argument is valid, but Marco Rizzi in an essay in The Seventh Book of the Stromateis explains the variant endings something like this. The Stromateis survived in a version with...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio latest article June...
"The Jewish resisters who constitute the subject of this book belong, by definition, to the history of Judaism, not to that of Christianity" this assumes there was never a point where those two...
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