Christian Texts and History • Re: New research finds 33 historical...
[Carrier's] final a fortiori odds are 1-in-3 for historicity, and 2-in-3 for mythicism. But that isn't what he is doing, as I argue can be seen in his RR reference class. His final a fortiori odds are...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Exploring the Overlooked Connection:...
Exploring the Overlooked Connection: "τἀληθῆ ἀλήθεια" in Clement's Letter to Theodore and Plato's PhaedrusIn the world of early Christian scholarship, the works of Clement of Alexandria stand out for...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Exploring the Overlooked Connection:...
I think future translations of to Theodore should put τἀληθῆ in quotation marks.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Mon Jul 22, 2024 7:06 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 'Late Revelations: Rediscovering the...
It sounds interesting, only I fear that 95 pages are too few to deal debtly with all the nuances of the case. In addition, the fact that the author is a hard-to-die historicist doesn't help in...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: "James the Just": What is the...
In the Gospels and the letters of Paul, we see a group of three constantly mentioned together: Peter/Cephas, James and John, where John is the brother of James:Gal 2:9 And when James, Cephas, and...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Vassal Statehood history for the general...
Judea did not become an independent state until the Maccabean Revolt in the 2nd Century BCE. After being liberated from the Babylonian exile, Judea was a vassal state of the Achmenids (Persians), then...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Comparison of 1 John to non-Christian...
@MrMacSon I assume you have read my other thread about the Gospel of John: viewtopic.php?t=12350The Gospel of course has Jesus making the same statements about testifying to what "he" has seen. But...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Two Powers in Heaven
And old man and a young man. The Father and the Son. Or so it seems....not messianic Judaism. Judaism Judaism."Is the idea of a visible God absurd in Judaism? Daniel Boyarin on Dan Chapter 7"....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A strong clue that in the Gospel of Peter...
GiuseppeConsidering different narratives is all very well - but bottom line one just has to put history first. History: the last King and High Priest of the Jews was killed, hung on a stake, beheaded...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is it Really "Uncertain" that...
But IN OTHER EXAMPLES from antiquity there isn't this level of scrutiny. I have this idea for a documentary on "what if the standards of Letter to Theodore authenticity" were applied to ordinary...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: "James" of Acts 15 was "the...
It certainly tidies some things up.But does it sweep the brothers of Jesus and their role under the rug in the process?The legendary material in Hegesippus, Julius Africanus, the Pseudo-Clementine...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Martus/Martys, etc
In another thread, based on another post, I said the following based on in 1 John 1:2:...................................C. One thing I'm intrigued about with the Greek for 'testify' or 'bear...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Cephas (according to Paul)
I think it would have taken more than the proposed scribal mistake to link these two. Plus, Arimathea, being a Semitic place name, would have to have been confused with a Greek personal name, which...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Was Papias' source Aristion identical with...
Again, here are Stephen C. Carlson's translations of mentions by Eusebius of Aristion. From his book, Papias of Hierapolis [2021] page 125:3.39.7b"In fact he often mentions them (_scil._ Aristion and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Martus/Martys, etc
This is purely speculative, but it makes me wonder if use of the term didn't originate with stories about people being killed or dying soon after seeing the Lord.Statistics: Posted by rgprice — Wed...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Was the logion 55 of the Gospel of Thomas that...
Jesus said: He who does not hate his father and his mother cannot be a disciple to me. And (he who does not) hate his brothers and sisters and take up his cross like me, will not be worthy of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Was the logion 55 of the Gospel of Thomas...
The word “cross” does occur once at Q [Luke] 14:27, when Q’s Jesus says: “Whoever does not carry his own cross and come along with me cannot be my disciple,”119 but it is noteworthy that this saying...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Comparison of 1 John to non-Christian...
If someone were really trying to convince people that they really knew Jesus and that Jesus was a person in the flesh, this seems like a very strange way to go about it.Why would he be trying to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Use of "antichrist"?
As we know, the actual word "Christ" does not appear in the oldest manuscripts, only ΧΣ or ΧΥ. But several passages talk about an "antichrist". Firstly, how exactly is this word written in the oldest...
View ArticleOther Texts and History • "The Phantoms Haunting History"
This is an interesting new essay, I'd say; its thesis may not be fully coherent, but it gives a fascinating survey of a wide variety of approaches, including some conflicting conspiracy theories,...
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