Christian Texts and History • Re: John, Papias, Marcion: an early...
One more thought here:That is, that Mark was not written to be published openly (according to a tradition), it was shared with those who asked for it, but that some people plagiarized it anyway and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The earliest known attestation of the “Gospel...
The earliest known reader of the text we now call the “Gospel according to Mark” was not Papias (writing c. 110–140 c.e.), nor was it Justin Martyr (writing c. 150 c.e.)—it was, in fact, the compiler...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Real Story of How Smith's Photos Got to...
Ernest Lachman.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Mon Oct 21, 2024 3:38 pm
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Details of the Roman Book Trade
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=4051"Bookdealers, like many businessmen in Rome, tended to be freedmen, men of low social status. We come across a few names: the Sosii, for...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A cottage industry of correcting the...
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf20 ... xxiii.html12. The same writer [Dionysius of Corinth] also speaks as follows concerning his own epistles, alleging that they had been mutilated: As the...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Clauses Explaining Delayed Visits and their Importance...
Peter Arzt Grabner, in Jewish and Christian Scripture in Artifact and Canon, p. 223This article addresses a particular type of passage that is not found outside personal letters. To inform the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Texts about 'Simon Cephas'
There's apparently,A. 'The Teaching of Simon Cephas' [In the City of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The 'History of Simon Cephas'
B. 'History of Simon Cephas, Chief of the Apostles'Standard abbreviation: Hist. Sim. Ceph.https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christ ... -apostles/Related literature: Acts of Peter, Preaching of Simon...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: James and John as Protomartyrs
Also any traditions that identity James and John as protomartyrs dying together. ThanksAlthough it covers much of the same ground as above, there are these articles from 1899 and 1904 (F.P. Badham)...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Texts about 'Simon Cephas'
Interesting each one of these three works engages with or even rails against Simon Magus or Simon the Sorcerer.'The Teaching of Simon Cephas' refers to Simon the Galilaean who preaches Christ (who...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • John circulated independently
Because p22 has the Gospel of John written on a roll, we can know that John was copied and used as a text on its own, given the limitations of the roll format in terms of the amount of text it can...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Dave Allen is at it again
No one even considered whether X had robbed the artist or not. It had no significance.But this was happening in the environment of depraved scoundrels from show business.And the fact that Chrissy is...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Approaching Synoptic Gospel Problem with...
Scenario A:Gospel of Hebrews > Gospel of Marcion > Gospel of Mark > Gospel of Canon Luke > Gospel of Greek MatthewYou read in my mind. (Even if I would place Matthew before Canonical...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On the Christology in Mark's Gospel
For these people, Jesus was previously someone else and has now become a stranger. without offence but I would like to remember that you are writing this in a thread started by a *Ev prioritist in...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: An allusion to John 21 by Phlegon dated to...
This seems to be the reference of interest:https://www.attalus.org/armenian/euseb14.htmthe fourteen books of Phlegon, the freedman of [Hadrianus] Caesar, containing a summary of 229 Olympiads,Which...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: John circulated independently with an...
Papyrus 66 is a "near complete codex of the Gospel of John." It is fortunate to be "one of the oldest well-preserved New Testament manuscripts known to exist." The preserved parts begin with John 1:1...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Biblical Scholarship is Next
If you asked what's harder for computers building 100 miles of highway or making up bullshit...Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:33 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Didn't Papias Agree with Cerinthus the...
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf20 ... xviii.html1. We have understood that at this time Cerinthus, the author of another heresy, made his appearance. Caius, whose words we quoted above, in the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Didn't Papias Agree with Cerinthus the...
https://peterkirby.com/putting-papias-in-order.html(X) (4) The same writer gives also other accounts which he says came to him through unwritten tradition, certain strange parables and teachings of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Did Paul’s philosophical principles inform...
The paper by Stowers is another unusual one for such a book. It focuses on the use of philosophical terms and concepts by Paul of Tarsus of the New Testament, in particular those of Platonism and...
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