Christian Texts and History • Re: Gospel of the Nazarenes/Secret Gospel
Apocrypha also means hidden.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:18 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Reconstructing the original story of Paul
From an old post.Paul? As much a literary creation as is the gospel figure of Jesus. Paul as Jesus Reboot or Jesus as Paul Reboot? Although Richard Pervo has not gone that far (Thomas Brodie has opted...
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View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Wouldn't Eusebius have been concerned about...
The topic of that whole chapter 5 is to prove that Jesus was a miracle worker.So what would I expect from Eusebius after he cited TF?That he would say: "See? Even Josephus said that Jesus was a doer...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A wonderful Mythicist book: I am talking...
Pro tip for YouTube transcript processing use a LLM/GPT and cut & paste--> remove the time stamps and whitespace of the following text 31:07 gospels or from Paul is all like fabricated...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Towards the Recognition of the Acts of the...
Stephen,Am not sure that whatever you described could be reflective of the Acta of a Roman official. These were the personal property of the officeholder, meant to be taken back to Rome to use in his...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Proto-Arianisms in Clement
The way that "official dogma" portrays the "problems" with Arianism isn't the problem with Arianism. Arianism was "bad" because they made God seem less "almighty."Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias —...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Peter -> Mark -> Glaucias -> Basilides...
This is a speculative proposal regarding the traditions of the Alexandrians in the early second century. Whether these traditions have any historicity before the second century is additionally...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Another Proof Acts Came Later: The Earliest...
The earliest known creed to mention Pontius Pilate is found in the Apostles' Creed, which includes the line: "suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried." While this creed took...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Peter -> Mark -> Glaucias ->...
This old blog post interpreters of Peter at Alexandria may be relevant, although I am unsure whether I still quite agree with it. Andrew CriddleStatistics: Posted by andrewcriddle — Wed Sep 04, 2024...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
But aren't we talking about Agrippa II? That is the king that Simon encounters in Josephus, if I'm not mistaken. And Agrippa II died c. 100 CE. I suppose he would have been a "priest" like his father...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Is the Ignacio González's point a possibiliter,...
Ignacio González has raised this question to prof Bermejo-Rubio:Hi, Fernando.I read the article with interest, eager to find some data that would support its ambitious title. Sadly, I was...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is the Ignacio González's point a...
Fifth, in your final conjectures we have a good example of what Richard Carrier has called the possibiliter, ergo probabiliter fallacy. Perhaps the crucifixion of three people by the Romans was purely...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Empedocles papyrus fragment reported
The Discovery of a New Empedocles Papyrus Fragment and Its SignificanceBy Dimitrios AristopoulosSeptember 4, 2024, Greek Reporterhttps://greekreporter.com/2024/09/04/di ... mpedocles/Statistics:...
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Academic Discussion • Henry Innes MacAdam: Studies in the History of the...
These are extracts from a book that goes into much detail on the region, known from literary references with terms such as Trachonitis, Batanaea, and Auranitis. The author received an MA in Ancient...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Was Jesus the Teacher of Righteousness?
Regarding Dio's statement about Sodom ("Moreover, somewhere in this book he praises the Essenes, a whole happy township in the midst of Palestine, beside the Dead Sea, lying at some point not far from...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Against All the Marcionite Scholars
Here is a specific analysis of Tertullian’s Adversus Marcionem Book Three. Evidence of Reusing Irenaeus's TreatiseChapter 1: Defense of the Creator’s Divinity in Christ's TeachingTertullian begins by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On Reconstructions of the Marcionite Gospel
Also seeBilby, M.G. (2021). Normalized Datasets of Klinghardt’s and Nicolotti’s Reconstructions of Marcion’s Gospel. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 7:32, pp.1–6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.70...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Greek Manuscript Heritage of the Book of Acts
FromElliott, 'The Greek Manuscript Heritage of the Book of Acts,' chapter 8 in New Testament Textual Criticism: The Application of Thoroughgoing Principles. Essays on Manuscripts and Textual...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A wonderful Mythicist book: I am talking...
Carrier's approach to the question involves Bayesian probability, which considers prior beliefs and evidence to determine posterior probability.True, but both "the question" and the "posterior...
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