Christian Texts and History • Re: A Stromateis of What?
The Stromateis is explicitly cited by Ishodad. With regards to whether there was a collection of letters of Clement of Alexandria circulating in antiquity: 1. the Letter to Theodore (disputed)2. the...
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I ask a technical information for who knows how Amazon behaves.I have pre-ordered the book via Amazon in the month of May and it should arrive to my address the 7° day of the month of August.But I see...
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Classical Texts and History • Tracing the Cult of the Goddess at Plinthine
**Work in Progress**125 AD: in Byblos, Lucian of Samosata confirms the 'Aphrodite' mystery cult (of the Syrian Goddess) was still closely affiliated with Osiris "for some Byblians." 75 AD: in the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Problem with historicism
Thus, the field is still wide open as it should be, including the historicist solution which is a great solution.I do not see secure grounds for believing in the historicity of Jesus but it does not...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: DrKippDavis on what is actually going on in...
YouTuber "Godless Engineer" (John Gleason) highlights at time 36:30, Davis' example of Carrier's incompetence in mishandling a citation of Martin Abegg."Kipp Davis' FAILED Response To Richard...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: "Teacher of Righteousness" and...
In this thread I propose that the Qumran-view Teacher was Judah the Esseneand that the Wicked Priest was Alexander Jannaeus.Before proceeding, are there any currently-claimed reasons why these two can...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: My Comprehensive bibliography of Christ...
1. Ishodad of Merv in his Commentary on the Gospels says, in effect, that Peter told Mark to write his gospel as a historical narrative because there were pre-existent traditions which viewed Jesus as...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A Stromateis of What?
Rough checklist of possible signs of Stromateis 3 originating from letters of Clement: Stromateis 3.1 - 3.3Yes, there is evidence that this material is recycled from previously extant (but now lost)...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Gary Goldberg, 'The Coincidences of the...
Why would the Acts of Pilate placed its Jesus crucifixion story in the 7th year of Tiberius ? Maybe the author of the pagan Acts of Pilate just misread the V. consulship of Tiberius (AD 31) as his IV....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: History of the challenge to apostolic...
And this https://www.jstor.org/stable/23563544 =ŠTEFAN PORÚBČAN (1967) The Consciousness of Peter's Primacy in the New Testament Archivum Historiae Pontificiae, vol. 5; pp.9-39 (It looks like the full...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Isn’t privileging the authenticity of...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_biasIn the ancient world, it is reasonable to suppose that the manuscripts considered the most authoritative or best-reputed would be read more often,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • 'The Johannine circle: Its place in Judaism,...
Oscar Cullmann (Author) The Johannine circle: Its place in Judaism, among the disciples of Jesus and in early Christianity: a study in the origin of the Gospel of John, S.C.M. Press, 1976, (translated...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: "Teacher of Righteousness" and...
Ken,The 2023 publication is updated and completely rewritten.The book has 22 chapters (mine is ch. 10). Some of the other chapters may be of interest. For the Table of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Another AI Glitch, Noted!
In a transcription exercise (NOT translation), to clean up OCR Error text, Claude3.5 was given an older German text-font, Fraktur?, and it proceeded to hallucinate German words into the OCR garbled...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: New evidence that Paul(us) was a concept...
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.o ... -Luke-19-3Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Was Papias' source Aristion identical with...
Hoping to move on from uncritical readings of Eusebius and too-restrictive definitions of elders and disciples, I'll mention that, in addition to Carlson's book, Monte A. Shanks, Papias and the New...
View ArticleOther Texts and History • Re: "Phantoms Haunting History"
From the Link, above:Riddled with agonizing jaw cancer at the age of 83, Sigmund Freud labored tirelessly from his deathbed on a final testament. Published in the summer of 1939, as an ascendant Nazi...
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Christian Texts and History • Sketch
Every serious and ecstatically beautiful reconstruction should have its own graphic visualization. I envied Zuntz and the researchers of the synoptic problem for their diagrams and therefore I created...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Sketch
Is this a historicist paradigm?The only difference between a historicist paradigm and the your scenario is that in the traditional historicist case the Josephus's TF was not necessary, while in the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Is the criterion of embarrassment used in other...
Thanks in advance for any answer.Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Mon Aug 05, 2024 5:03 am
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