Christian Texts and History • Re: John Kloppenborg on History Valley: Q,...
Thanks for sharing this! Kloppenborg here is a good indicator of these ideas being mainstream.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Fri Oct 11, 2024 4:47 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What About the Acts of the Apostles Makes...
7. The Use of Literary TropesRichard Pervo and others have pointed out that Acts reads more like Hellenistic literature than history. The sea voyages, the trials—these are tropes borrowed from...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Does everyone here think the author of Acts...
Just wondering if anyone here has any doubt about this.If not, I'm wondering if people have given it thought beyond Steve Mason's influential summary on the subject. That is, what gives them the...
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Si.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Fri Oct 11, 2024 6:46 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: John 19:27b
And from that hour the disciple took her into his own (home).Here is the NASB:From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.The Greek: καὶ ἀπ' ἐκείνης τῆς ὥρας ἔλαβεν ὁ μαθητὴς αὐτὴν εἰς...
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Christian Texts and History • Someone just brought a book...
Funny thing.Gunther Zuntz's book Text of the Epistles has been regularly published and regularly commented on by SBL members since 1953.And nothing comes of it...Let us recall the graphic...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Tertullian's Unusual Interest in Matthew...
I never wanted to be a spokesman for Secret Mark. I was distracted from my original interest in Marcion by the complete mistreatment of Morton Smith and the text by scholars with ulterior (textual...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Tertullian's Unusual Interest in Matthew...
Tertullian’s Adversus Marcionem offers a layered critique of Marcion's theology, particularly the Antitheses, which contrasts the Law and the Gospel. In Book IV, he directly challenges Marcion’s...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: One simple factual question...
Finally someone who knows how to use Google.No one should have to waste their life googling conferences when you could just answer a simple question in ten seconds, instead of spending it bloviating...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Someone just brought a book...
What unites all the quarreling mythicists from the 19th century to the present day is the fatal and drawn-out genesis of Jesus from some cult of dying and rising gods, from the alleged cult of Joshua,...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: The Key Word is "Confirmed"
Did Colombus have Jewish parents? If not -- or even if he himself apostatized from Judaism -- how could a baptized & practicing Roman Catholic be "Jewish"? (Only with such racist...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Dreaming a proto-Mark purged from...
In red the portions compromised by influence by Marcion or polemic against Marcion:1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 1:2 Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet,...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Columbus Confirmed as a Jew
how could a baptized & practicing Roman Catholic be "Jewish"?Relatively common in the period. Like asking whether there were homosexuals in Nazi Germany.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Sun...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Ἐγώ εἰμι
I'll start by riffing off this post by Giuseppe on another thread... GJohn has 'I am' in the mouth of the Jesus walking on the waters. Is he YHWH? Probably so.Hence how can I explain it in *Ev?...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Ἐγώ εἰμι
The notion that there was only one God among the Jews in antiquity is an illusion sustained by modern religious orthodoxy, retrojected into history. The evidence suggests a more fluid, dynamic, and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Why I Think the Canonical Gospels Are Like...
viewtopic.php?p=172120&hilit=syndication#p172120Statistics: Posted by JarekS — Sun Oct 13, 2024 9:22 pm
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Just Received High Resolution Scans Morton...
The kai is written to fit the margin not the kinkle. Look at the bottom page one where the original wide margin is still present; Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Mon Oct 14, 2024 2:19 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Does everyone here think the author of Acts...
Luke 16:16 implies or suggests he is pre-gospel.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Mon Oct 14, 2024 3:06 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is even the excommunication of Marcion a...
If I was to describe Adversus Marcionem I'd say its a Commentary on Luke "against Marcion" often taken from a Matthew based attack on the Marcionite gospel. When it hits. When it lands punches it's...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Fragments of Euripides' Ino & Polyidus Found
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/ ... des-plays/For centuries, questions have loomed about two of Euripides’ lesser-known tragedies, “Ino” and “Polyidus,” with only a smattering of text...
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