Christian Texts and History • Any evidence of an "ante-christ"?
Here is the issue: The term "antichrist" doesn't really make much sense. What was it supposed to mean? But "antechrist" would make sense. It would of course the one who comes before the christ. In...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: The Didache.
I feel silly for not thinking to check what wikipedia says. But thats still interesting, in the sense that it does seem to imply that both are known, and both seem to be thought of independently. So...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: This is written in the gospel according to...
Clement of Alexandria gives priority to Mark for this triple tradition passage (Mk 10:17-31) . . . There is also Clement of Alexandria's commentary on 1 Peter:“"Marcus, my son, saluteth you." Mark,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Legendary Ben Smith's TextExcavation Site
Hi Peter. I'm new to this forum but have been watching it (and others) for a while - like many others, I would like to see the TextExcavation site back online. Also, like you, I have been using...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Confusion regarding the Trimorphic Protennoia
Hi all. As I've been going through a positive deconstruction this past year, I've been reading through the apocryphal texts. I've found something interesting, I'm wondering if anyone might have an...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Any evidence of an "ante-christ"?
LSJC. IN COMPOS. it signifies,1. over against, opposite, as ἀντιβαίνω, ἀντίπορος.2. against, in opposition to, as ἀντιλέγω, ἀντίβιος.3. one against another, mutually, as ἀντιδεξιόομαι.4. in return, as...
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Academic Discussion • Re: Did Jesus threaten the Destruction of the Temple?
One way of thinking about this is presented by Anthony Le Donne (Historical Jesus, p. 87):“Each branch represents a pattern of memory refraction. Mark remembers Jesus differently than John. These...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Confusion regarding the Trimorphic Protennoia
This is a really good question and, IMO, a difficult one. Thank you for posing it.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Mon Nov 04, 2024 12:41 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Why can't Thomas supplement as a source on...
Apparently, God also knew that four was the right number of Gospels before Jesus even walked the earth—if you take the Church Fathers seriously, that is. Because, you know, there are four elements,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A re-reading of 1 John 4 "come in the...
The issue really is not so much the translation as the understanding.well, it's both, ie., they're inter-related.I agree here, ie., in this thread, that really the only word at issue is "in" or...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Simon Peter is the successor to...
I once heard Robert Price say that may have been a slip up by the proto orthodox redactor...Statistics: Posted by PraveenPaul — Mon Nov 04, 2024 7:32 pm
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • The Second Sophistic
The term 'Second Sophistic' is a literary-historical term referring to the Greek writers who flourished from the reign of Nero until c. 230 AD. It comes from Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Protevangelium of James
Two old threads that may be of interest regarding the John story in the Protoevangelium of James. A John story that is perhaps overlooked. John - and Jesus - born to be KIngs of Israel.John the...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: The Second Sophistic
.σοφίζω (sophízō)Verbto make wise, instruct (passive voice) to become wise, clever, skilled (middle voice) to teach oneself, learn(middle voice) to practice an art; to be subtle; to speculate (with...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is there in Christian tradition something...
A "fabricated" thing is not necessarily similar to an unwritten thing.Statistics: Posted by StephenGoranson — Tue Nov 05, 2024 9:38 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • John 8: Who is the Father of the Jews?
We've addressed this before, here but I'm still trying to get clarity on this. Here is what the interlinear has: https://biblehub.com/interlinear/john/8.htmJohn 8 in typical English translation (NASB)...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire
Yahwism under the Achaemenid EmpireProfessor Shaul Shaked in MemoriamEdited by: Gad Barnea and Reinhard G. KratzVolume 548 in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Luke-Acts used Wars, not Antiquities
I once wrote (Journal of Higher Criticism 16.2, p 106) that the reference to Herod Agrippa being "eaten by worms" at Acts 12:23 might be a conflating of the accounts of his death at Ant 19:343-53 (cf...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Paul as Bad Boy …
… and Debbie Does DamascusWhy did Paul brag to the skeptical Corinthians that he had been repeatedly and publicly punished as a criminal --- as if it was a good thing? I too above measure: more...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The TF and "absence of evidence is not...
Funny how Goldberg's work for 10 years was proof to me that TF was an interpolation. Then biblical scholars like Pervo and Mason convinced others that the wind was blowing in the opposite direction...
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