Christian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
I changed my mind. I'm abandoning this hypothesis and all first century hypotheses. Maybe I will make a new thread with my new preferred hypothesis.One of the reasons for this change is this passage...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Mary at the cross in the synoptics? (Mt 27:56,...
An interesting comment from Mark Goodacre:https://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2023/06/i ... s-and.htmlIs Mary, the Mother of Jesus at the cross and the tomb in Matthew?It is sometimes pointed out that Mary,...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Parallels between Apocryphon of James and John or 1 John
This comes from Pheme Perkins, "Johannine Traditions in Ap. Jas."https://www.jstor.org/stable/3260352Five hundred and fifty days after he had risen from the dead, we told him, “You went away and left...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Barnabas: Jesus is not the Son of David
12.9 λέγει οὖν Μωϋσῆς Ἰησοῦ, υἱῷ Ναυή, ἐπιθεὶς τοῦτο τὸ ὄνομα, ὁπότε ἔπεμψεν αὐτὸν κατάσκοπον τῆς γῆς· Λάβε βιβλίον εἰς τὰς χεῖράς σου καὶ γράψον, ἃ λέγει κύριος, ὅτι ἐκκόψει ἐκ ῥιζῶν τὸν οἶκον πάντα...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • How did Clement feel about Valentinus as a...
+1 Positive The Valentinians, who hold that the union of man and woman is derived from the divine emanation in heaven above, approve of marriage.+1 PositiveIf these people spoke of acts of spiritual...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: How did Clement feel about Valentinus as a...
This is the 'dirty Latin' book in the ANF edition:https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/ ... glish.htmlStatistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Thu Oct 31, 2024 6:42 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • There's Something About Mary/Herodias. A...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy47g4FtiSUSalome should be in the Herod story and the Disciples surrounding the Herod story should be at the Tomb (understand Dear KK).The primary theme. Jesus is not...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Was Matk the first who introduced Joseph as...
Obviously there is no explicit mention of Joseph. But I think that Mark wanted that the reader realized that implicitly "Joseph" is the name of the putative father of Jesus.Afterall, one of the first...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Parallels Between To Theodore and Letter 366
In Letter to Theodore, the phrase Καλῶς ἐποίησας ἐπιστομίσαι τὰς ἀῤῥήτους διδασκαλίας τῶν Καρποκρατιανῶν highlights the need to "silence the unspeakable teachings of the Carpocratians," echoing...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • What if the Gospel chronology points to 36 CE...
Unfortunately the Russell Gmirkin's paper is not available on academia.edu, but only the abstract, from which I quote the following:This revised chronology points to 36 CE as the year of the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Did Jesus Exist? Almost Certainly
Check out the NT Review's 4 minute video:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HNZDLacqu ... =1&pp=iAQBStatistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Fri Nov 01, 2024 10:46 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What if the Gospel chronology points to 36...
Giuseppe, this paper might be of interest re the 36 c.e. crucifixion dating by Nikos Kokkinos.Crucifixion in A.D. 36: The Keystone for Dating the Birth of Jesushttps://www.academia.edu/42949214/Cruci...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Did Jesus Exist? Almost Certainly
Where is the novelty? Two Catholic interpolations ("born by woman" and "brother of the Lord") would be the "evidence" for the 'scholars' of the video.Nothing of the complexity required in the best...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Does academic historicism exist?
The theory of evolution doesn't have to engage with, say, peer-reviewed works supporting intelligent design (they exist!)...Like Ehrman's non engagement with peer-reviewed works published by an...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: The Didache
Yes, DRP is helpful, although he does not give the history of each reference used.We are talking of chapter 7, which is short, and there are few variants. This discussion is extremely helpful for...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Chiasms in GMark by the Legendary Vorkosigan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4WeHY85-DMJW:The Legendary Vorkosigan on Markan chiasms:Excursus: An Additional Argument for Markan PriorityWhile the vast majority of scholars believe that Mark was...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Simon Peter is the successor to...
1 Clement also mentions both "Peter" and "Cephas" which I believe further indicates that they are different people. First referring to the death of Peter:But not to dwell upon ancient examples, let us...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • A Goodness-of-fit Test Analysis on Names in the...
This article was distributed on arxiv.org and published in Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.14883History can be understood as a field of fields, where many...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: The word μετὰ...
Let's assume the Acts 5:34-40 passage is fully historical and that it happened in the late 40s or early 50s CE:Let's not. The speeches given by the characters in Acts serve to explicate the plot of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Howard M. Teeple - know much about him?
I've been really impressed with the works of the late Howard Teeple. I'd say he's the best biblical scholar I've read, but I can't find out much about him. I did just order his book, "I Started to Be...
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