Christian Texts and History • Mark 1:3 as replacing an unknown god (the...
Adam Winn makes an elaborate argument that Mark 3:1:a voice of one calling in the wilderness,‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’”...implies strictu senso that John the Baptist...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Evidence of heretics who considered Paul...
Are you sure to have read well, before that you label something as 'ridiculous'? For your knowledge, it is *consensus* the view that Justin omitted any reference to Paul because he was dangerously the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Was Jesus the Teacher of Righteousness?
What does "the younger sort" have to do with the Teacher of Righteousness?Good question. I hadn't thought of that. Nothing, I guess. But there are other reasons to see the Teacher as a Fourth...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: "Teacher of Righteousness" and...
Here is some relevant bibliography on etymology of Essenes:1532 Ph. Melanchthon in J. Carion, Chronica. Wittenberg, 1532. f68v:Essei / das ist / Operarii / vom wort Assa / das ist wircken.1548 Paul...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Luke knew Josephus or Josephus knew Luke?
It seems that not only Luke used TF, but also the unknown author *Ev, who was brought to life by Klinghardt. apart the Emmaus episode, where is the evidence that *Ev knew and used Josephus ? I have...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • To What Degree Are Copyists Shaped by the Thing...
9th century manuscript of John of Damascus Sacra Parallela originally written at Mar SabaTo Theodore is imitating a ninth century ligature that I have found is uncommon at the time it is written....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • ἐληλυθότα has/will - come?
In 1 John 4 we read:1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What do we know?
The same problem of an image on a Roman denarius also applies to the image of Marquardt on the "Tyrian" coins that the temple accepted. Giving to God what belongs to God may mean something other than...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Evidence of heretics who considered Paul...
Giuseppe, I have no problems with you speculating. I do the same, and it's fun to do it. But you don't seem to take any responsibilities with your speculations. You need to be consistent within the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Concordances of Vocabulary for an Ancient...
https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/cote/64812/Not necessarily true that an ancient forger couldn't have manufactured pseudepigrapha in the name of Church Fathers.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias —...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: "Teacher of Righteousness" and...
Some of the mentions of the Wicked Priest, plus some of the mentions of the Teacher of Righteousness, who knew one another, are texts that are earlier than the adult life of Herod Agrippa.Thank you...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Jewish God = Satan
So in the oldest layer, the Evil One (Satan, the devil) is the Creator and Ruler of the world. This figure is equated to the Jewish God. When these scriptures say God the Father, they mean a god...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Josephan TF and it's 19 c.e. context.
Herod the Tetrarch was supposed to have founded Tiberias in 17 CE. "AND NOW Herod the tetrarch, who was in great favor with Tiberius, built a city of the same name with him, and called it Tiberias."...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Did Armstrongism's collapse generate some...
The Worldwide Church of God, founded by H. Armstrong, may have spurred some who left it to the opposite extreme of hyper-skepticism. Or is that not so?Statistics: Posted by StephenGoranson — Mon Aug...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Nazareth, like Capernaum, is a...
Just a tidbit involving the geography of Nazareth and Capernaum:Luke 4:16 (AV) And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Romans 9:5 - God blessed for ever
bumped again, in the expectation that spin will share more grammatically.Statistics: Posted by Steven Avery — Mon Aug 19, 2024 1:42 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A wonderful Mythicist book: I am talking...
The earliest gospel was used and/or written by Marcion: Markus Vinzent, Matthias Klinghardt, Georges Ory, Paul Louis Couchoud;It is the first time I hear Richard Carrier on youtube. In a discussion...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Dating the latest Qumran manuscripts
Also, Michael O. Wise, in "Dating the Teacher of Righteousness and the _Floruit_ of His Movement," Journal of Biblical Literature 122/1 (2003) 53-87mentions events addressed in the scrolls that he...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Gary Goldberg, 'The Coincidences of the...
Sorry for the delay in responding. I've been busy. That and I feel as though I'v already responded to this. it seems to me that Eusebius parallels the TF as to the words, while Luke parallels the TF...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Clementine Literature
MrMacSon, sounds a lot like the Islamic belief that Jesus was a bona-fide prophet, only not THE prophet, who was Mohammed, the last and best. In his later years, Hugh Schonfield also went down this...
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