Christian Texts and History • Re: Mary Magdalene
Stevan Davies in The Revolt of the Widows argued that "widows" (in the world of the apocryphal Acts) often involved "widows because they left their husbands for the church."The story above involves...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Christian Texts and History • Would "Mark" have approved the...
According to J. Andrew Doole, the answer is a sound YES:The Gospel of Mark appears to have been an overnight success in earliest Christian circles, inspiring and influencing two later evangelists to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Would "Mark" have approved the...
The conclusion of the book:In producing a new edition he does not, as Luke and John, envisage his gospel as yet an other on the market. He wrote what he considered the definitive account of Jesus’...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: If in Antiquities, why not in War, also?
Above, spin, I did answer your questions 1 and 2: yes, Eusebius knew about both and had access to both. Your question 3 is, to borrow your word, unfalsifiable. But one could at least ask, if you allow...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Eusebius narrating the Gospel attributed to...
But even if that is the case, Eusebius says that "Clement in the eighth book of his Hypotyposes gives this account [the "they say" account],Way #4 (re Eusebious's account of the writing of Mark)And...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: About the Günther Zuntz's implication on...
The problem of reconstructing the process of creation of the Pauline Corpus is ignored by commentators of Zuntz's work. Everyone is afraid to touch it??? Is it too boring???What is more, subsequent...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: This is written in the gospel according to...
I almost forgot, musical compositions. Here’s a list of songs inspired by or derived from other songs, either through direct sampling, homage, remixing, or borrowing musical themes. Some of these...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Using ChatGPT
Sirach and Paul share a common foundation in Jewish wisdom traditions, leading to natural parallels in their exhortations on themes like wisdom, humility, and ethical conduct. Here are a few notable...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Clement's and Origen's citation practices
In a paper on the parallels and relationship between Ps.-Basil of Caesarea’s ep. 366 (aka De Continentia) and a quotation of Valentinus given in Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.7.59.3 (ep. 366/De...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: The name Caiaphas is from the...
jasonrollins wrote:PeterC wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2024 5:16 pm The difference from my position, however, is that was no extraordinary coincidence. This is because the author of Mark, or possibly some...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Clement's and Origen's citation practices
The author, Annewies Van Den Hoek, in Techniques of Quotation in Clement of Alexandria, asserts that Clement of Alexandria "varies" in his practices of citing sources. Although Clement frequently...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: ἀπομνημονεύω, ἀπομνημονεύμα and ὑπομνήματα...
Apparently,ἀπομνημονεύω (apomnēmoneúō) is a verb meaning “relate from memory, recount, remember”see https://lsj.gr/wiki/ἀπομνημονεύωAndἀπομνημόνευμα = ἀπομνημονεύω (minus ω) + -μα (-ma, of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • μνῆμα, μνάομαι and μιμνήσκω
I've add μνῆμα (mnéma) to the main table in the OPApparently μνῆμα comes from μνάομαι (mnáomai) + -μα (-ma)μνῆμα (mnéma) : neuter noun (genitive μνήμᾶτος); third declensionremembrance, record or...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Origen attesting to Cureton's 3 letter text of...
Jack Bull discusses this. It's in his Youtube videos, but because videos are a terrible format, I can't find which and where the timestamp is easily.Origen said:‘one of the saints, by name Ignatius,...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Ignatius: A Synopsis of Short and Middle Recensions
Lightfoot and Cureton, respectively.Ignatius To Polycarp0:0 Ignatius, who is also Theophorus, unto Polycarp who is bishop of the church of the Smyrnaeans or rather who hath for his bishop God the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Origen attesting to Cureton's 3 letter text...
https://www.academia.edu/28374396/Late_ ... rd_J_Watts Theodoret’s two surviving collections, which Adam Schor suggests were drawn from a larger archive that may have coalesced in...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Ignatius: A Synopsis of Short and Middle Recensions
My old brain gets a bit cloudy when I see so much text in need of analysis.These English Language translations from ANF series vol 1 with their ETs of Cureton's Syriac, the short Greek recension, and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Matthew circulated independently and...
Let's try to go over what some of the different interpretations are, to avoid misunderstandings.One hypothesis about Papias assumes that Papias was comparing (by speculation, tradition, or knowledge)...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: John, Papias, Marcion: an early...
Clement's Letter to Theodore supports the idea that there were two editions of Mark prior to his composition of Secret Mark in Alexandria.But when Peter died a martyr, Mark came over to Alexandria,...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: The Didache.
I've seen people debate academically the relationship between Barnabas and the Didache (which came first, etc...). Do we know if there was an opinion of the connection in the early church?Statistics:...
View Article