Christian Texts and History • John the Baptist, redivivus of a 2015 article
My 2015 blog article on the passage regarding John the Baptist in the Antiquities is receiving attention recently in 2024. I'm taking this as a compliment. That article is...
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Not knowing if you have said anything or not, I have mentioned this thread for you:https://vridar.org/2024/01/12/where-doe ... ent-302877Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:14 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: John the Baptist, redivivus of a 2015 article
As I have written, this point is decisive:(2) has a response based on Rivka Nir that suggests that Origen was not referring to the passage on John in the 18th book of the Antiquities. I must agree...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • If John the Baptist never existed then the...
1) The Markan message in the incipit is entirely devoted to reveal that a very important event is going to happen in real History.2) per (1) at least a name should serve to reveal the "when" of this...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: If John the Baptist never existed then the...
No wonder that Kunigunde defends the authenticity of the Baptist Passage in Josephus. It is essential to reassure her that "Mark", considered as the oldest evangelist, was not insane.Think the effect...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Gospels, Epistles, Old Testament: the order...
i don't see how this rebuts him. it's also not really rhetoric it's his comments derived from his statistical analysis. one should really rebut the analysis if one doesn't agree with the comments....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Ebionaeans allege that they themselves...
The idea is found in Hippolytus (c170-c236)http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/050107.htmThe Ebionaeans,9 however, acknowledge that the world was made by Him Who is in reality God, but they propound...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Thread summary: Paul's letters all derived from...
This is a A BestOfThread from Paul's letters all derived from Marcion?. It was a lengthy discussion concludes that the Faulines were written by MarcionOrLater.1I think it'd be worth considering...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Proofs that John the Baptist Existed
Some Jews thought that Elijah would precede the Messiah because of Malachi's prophecy.Source? I would most appreciate it, but at present I have not found anything that is unambiguous until into the...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Everybody knew what the nomina sacra were
Oh, btw, 5 was originally hāʼ. Just fyi. Statistics: Posted by lclapshaw — Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:35 am
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Christian Texts and History • Second edition of "Jesus Hoax" by...
There are new portions in this espanded version, where the author compares his own "Antagonism Thesis" with others, and surely one is the following (p. 151-152):(16) "Paul believed in a 'celestial'...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Constantine as a gradualist?
Whether some books that were eventually classified as NT Apocrypha are Christian depends on whom you ask; certainly some known Christian authors cited some NT Apocrypha books approvingly.Treating all...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Making sense of the Pauline Epistles
but this early dating is internal from what the epistles themselves and Acts says alonethey smell laterwhat is the terminus ad quem? pretty latei think something around 100 thoughenough time to exist...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Secret Mark Rome and Alexandria
I'm still not sure what is going on with the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum but I've checked in Bonino Mombritius the oldest printed version of the Latin Martyrdom of Mark. (originally printed c 1480...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A Secret Mark Bibliography Has Reached Over...
And this is what Andrew and Goranson want us to believe. Mark never had the authority over Alexandria as this rival tradition to Rome. This Mark nonsense was all invented by Eusebius in the fourth...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: While She Sat on Her Ass, She Broke Wind...
Judges 1:14 uses a Hebrew word otherwise found only in Judges 4:21. We basically don't know what the word means. Andrew CriddleStatistics: Posted by andrewcriddle — Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:45 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Did Justin introduce gospels to Rome?
The earliest supposed source for the association of Mark's Gospel and Peter is Papias according to Eusebius And the presbyter said this. Mark having become the interpreter of Peter, wrote down...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: nothing is confirmed by 2inch scraps or...
Bryennius said he went back to the manuscript and found the Didache, which he had missed on pass one, this was about 10 years later. Definitely a quirky account."And, although the MS was discovered in...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Epiphanius on Ebion
Is there something you find interesting about the quote? I think I might be missing some context.This - might - be an allusion to member "ebion." DCHI think he likes him. Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Authenticity of Philemon
Please excuse me if I seem to come out of left field, but do not ancient personal letters often follow cliché norms that were considered "the way to do it?" Personal letters will tend to follow...
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