Christian Texts and History • Re: Prima facie observations on Gospels,...
I have sent this mp to mlinssen:As you know, I am intrigued by the curious coincidence of a Samaritan rebel slain by Pilate. It is a "coincidence" given the fact that you talk a lot about a Samaritan...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Making sense of the Pauline Epistles
Oops - I was about to change the dates and forgot when I was writing the Early Marcion theory bit. I'll rectify that now, thanks for pointing it out How do you get a date for Hebrews when you don't...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: History of the Bishops of Alexandria a new...
The new Ethiopic text provides support to the otherwise flimsy evidence that Arius founder of the Arian movement was previously involved in the Melitian schism. Andrew CriddleStatistics: Posted by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • the Greek source for Whiston's 1711 Apostolic...
The critical study by David Robert Palmer has in there a listing for the "Apostolic Constitutions" but he does not say whose version. So my question remains: what's the origin of Whiston's Greek text...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: nothing is confirmed by 2inch scraps or...
2 inch fragments can only be scraps of evidence. and scraps are not very important. It's not the difference Hoole points out; it's the additions that the Bryennios manuscript has, that just happen to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: HAramaic: the Hebrew and Aramaic roots in...
The four libraries in four different countries with portions of it accept to NOT test it with AMS C-14, or to spectral test the ink. They are however very quick to cancel testing that does get...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Using ChatGPT
Try a resurrection in the bible beltStatistics: Posted by Leucius Charinus — Sun Jan 21, 2024 8:55 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 'Hebrews' ie. the Epistle to the Hebrews
I went thru Hebrews in a series of posts three years agoStarting here viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7585 ... but perhaps see / start at this post viewtopic.php?p=117106#p117106 and following ie. the rest of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Did Justin know Polycarp?
This page says:But of all the losses, none affected Martyr more than the execution of Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna. A spiritual father to many and a man who had known the Apostle John personally, at...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Comparing Irenaeus and Eusebius
Irenaeus, undoubtedly using Hegesippus, tells us that there were Roman bishops and gives us there names. Eusebius writing a little over a century later (I think Irenaeus wrote around 190 CE) gives us...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • 'Christ Born of Mary' Inscription, at Megiddo
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/01/1 ... ael/150256Statistics: Posted by billd89 — Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:10 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 'Christ Born of Mary' Inscription, at Megiddo
It's not about believing. It's like trying to be a vegetarian meat connoisseur. Gematria is the ancient world.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:32 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: So, did Marcion just make everything?
And of course, I'd also do my utmost to include as much evidence as I can for both the fully traditional view, that all Pauline epistles (aside from the letters to Seneca) are legitimate, as well as...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Fayyumic / Mesokemic manuscripts?
Martijn replied. It appears that he doesn't know the answer about which manuscripts in Fayyumic or Mesokemic attest this word, i.e. ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ. He suggested that I contact the CDO.Here is his full...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Part 3 of The Paul Paradox by the late...
The author of this is Patterson Brown, the translator from Coptic of the Nag Hammadi Gospel of Philip and Gospel of Thomas and Gospel of Truth, from part 3 of www.metalog.org/files/paul_p1.html (see...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: KJV Tampering as a precursor to Sinaiaticus...
Though no translation, KJV or others, is perfect, given the manuscripts and scholarship available to them, the KJV was good, especially in some poetry. Not a "tampering."Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The X-Files: Chrestos / Christos / Χρειστος
From Clement, Stromata 2.4 (with Greek glosses, which could be disputed):ANF translation:In The Statesman he [Plato] says expressly, “So that the knowledge of the true king is kingly (ὥστε ἡ τοῦ...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Luke 3:23 son of Joseph...
Yes, but the question is, did someone take an original text that read, "Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son of Joseph," and then simply (and lazily)...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Jesus Traditions found only in Luke
This is from the Jesus Database I dug out from https://web.archive.org/web/20120318061 ... lLuke.html Although the Ebioneans clung to Matthew, I read somewhere that they also read Acts and Luke and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: the trail appears into recorded history
there's no such thing as there not being a historical movement, humans wrote the texts we have and there were adherents of the movement we can trace back to the 2nd century. then the trail disappears...
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