Christian Texts and History • Re: Under 10 conditions the Markan priority is...
Jesus from the start of gMark is based on Paul's Christology...[...]Jesus is declared Son of God after the Spirit descends on him at his baptism by JohnB, whereas Jesus is declared Son of God by the...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Dating the latest Qumran manuscripts
For the questionable inclusion of some possibly-non-Qumran-find silver coins now in Amman:New Perspectives on the Roman Coinage on the Eastern Limes in the Late Republican and Roman Imperial Period....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Luke knew Josephus or Josephus knew Luke?
First it's an argument from silenceIt is not an argument from silence. It is a statistical argument. Whereas arguments from silence are among the weakest arguments, statistical arguments are among the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Cerinthus and beyond
The Epistle of the Apostles, dated to the mid-late 2nd century CE, closely associates Cerinthus and Simon and calls them false apostles who have gone “through the world” (Epistle of the Apostles 1,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Why Hermann Detering is more Mythicist than...
While Robert M. Price thinks that Galatians was written by Marcion of Sinope in person in perfect awareness of Acts of the Apostles (and by logical extension, of a historical Jesus), Hermann Detering,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Why Hermann Detering is more Mythicist than...
Hermann Detering is more mythicist even than Stuart Waugh, since the latter believes that Galatians meant proto-Matthew as the gospel adopted by the enemies. The only certain fully Marcionite letter...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Wouldn't Eusebius have been concerned about...
.................................2). Suppose a Christian scribe was copying the Antiquities and had two manuscripts: one which had the Testimonium in it and another which did not. Which would he...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hermeneia on Acts?
I don't entirely agree with it but John also called Mark by Dean Furlong may be relevant.Andrew CriddleStatistics: Posted by andrewcriddle — Mon Aug 26, 2024 8:33 am
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Ancient clams that Jews worshiped Satan?
John 8:39-47 (RSV):39 They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, you would do what Abraham did, 40 but now you are trying to kill me, a man who has...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: "Teacher of Righteousness" and...
To claim that "Carbon dating has some inherent uncertainties..." without identifying such nor showing that repeated tests should be ignored is not sufficient reason to suppose that first-century CE...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What do we know?
PK: "He's on here every day challenging assumptions."Methinks, you've confused negativity with skepicism.Statistics: Posted by spin — Tue Aug 27, 2024 12:40 pm
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Jewish Texts and History • A new Yonatan Adler article: a prequel to 'The...
From a recent Yonatan Adler social media post:(I'm impressed that simple copy n pasting preserved his formatting)This new article (now in proofs stage) is something of a 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗹 to my book, 𝘛𝘩𝘦...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Could one accuse rightly Richard Carrier of...
I don't know him, but if he says he is agnostic, I'll take his word for it.For me it is very hard to do so, i.e. "to take his word for it". Not impossible, but hard. I feel as the young rich to whom...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Reflections on the Mythicists and the...
- Paul claims that Jesus was made of the seed of David, which is kind of an odd thing to say.There's nothing odd about it at all, if you understand Jewish messianism. Start with Dan 7:13f, the one...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The making of a heretic
https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/phot ... ca.htm#177I cannot say with certainty whether the name of Aram which he gives to their chief is a name or nickname. This person, the author says, fashioned...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Gaston: Luke-Acts in its final form...
Of course Acts is anti-Jewish. Marcion witnessed the original Judaism, the Judaism of the Oniads (assuming as i do that Philo preserved that tradition). It doesn't get any earlier than that. Acts is...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Luke knew Josephus or Josephus knew Luke?
Could you give the 7 or more strong parallels that you are counting in your statistical argument.From the link I shared earlier, the parallels I count are Luke 1:1-4, Luke 2:1-3, Luke 3:1e, Luke 13:1,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The making of a heretic
Good catch. With an assist from Morton Smith.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Thu Aug 29, 2024 2:37 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Why Hermann Detering is more Mythicist than...
Hermann Detering is more mythicist even than Stuart Waugh, since the latter believes that Galatians meant proto-Matthew as the gospel adopted by the enemies. The only certain fully Marcionite letter...
View ArticleOther Texts and History • The Greek Gods RULE!
Kaos (2024) tv series. Looks VERY good! Jeff Goldblum is Zeus …Review:https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... asterpiece iframe Statistics: Posted by billd89 — Thu Aug 29, 2024 4:21 pm
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