Christian Texts and History • Re: Why can't Thomas supplement as a source on...
a/ It is entirely plausible that the Gospel of Thomas contains at least a few otherwise unattested sayings from the earliest Jesus tradition but it is unclear that there are any specific cases in...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Epistle of Jude written against Cainites
A podcast episode of Born in the Second Century mentioned the same, even implicating Irenaeus in the school that produced ithttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2 ... 0558539747Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A Goodness-of-fit Test Analysis on Names in...
IIRC from an interview, Kamil Gregor had to do some data transform of Ilan both in the way Bauckham carelessly used him and in how the data are represented. Then again, as someone with an undergrad in...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
And the "head" of these kings doesn't necessarily have to be Nero, but any and all Roman emperors, from Augustus on.Interesting. So let's go back to the passage:The serpents are the kings of the...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • 'Commentarii de Bello Gallico'
aka "Bellum Gallicum" or "[De] Bello Gallico "Commentarii de Bello Gallico is said to be Julius Caesar's firsthand account1 of the Gallic Wars of 58 to 50 BCE,2 written as a third-person narrative. It...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Simon Peter is the successor to...
Because it is referring to 1 Corinthians, in which Paul mentions Cephas (and Apollos). But Peter and Cephas could still be different people (or viewed as being different people by 1 Clement).Yes this...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 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...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Say It Ain't So Joe
The saying "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" has been attributed to the late 19th-century Scottish geologist Dugald Bell. (Though I have not yet found it in his available publications;...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • The Epic of Sundiata and the Life of Alexander
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/li ... est-africaAccounts of the life of Alexander the Great exist in the literary and oral traditions of societies as far afield as Iceland, Ethiopia and...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Northern Traditions of Abraham as a King
Antiquities 1.7.2https://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-1.html#S7.2And Nicolaus of Damascus, in the fourth Book of his History says thus: “Abram reigned at Damascus; being a foreigner, who came...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Say It Ain't So Joe
Is the context of this Thread limited to what Origen wrote?With my mod hat on, most threads do wander a bit. Don't hold back.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Thu Nov 07, 2024 8:34 pm
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Did Josephus say that Jesus was called Chrēstos?
The manuscripts of Suetonius are divided on reading either Chresto or Christo. Margaret Williams, Early Classical Authors on Jesus (2022), p. 103, n. 28.On the powerful support supplied by the MSS for...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
Based on the discussion in Italian by Guarducci, a similar conclusion is reached by Alastair M. Small, "Urban, suburban and rural religion in the Roman period" (pp. 184-211) in The World of Pompeii...
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Academic Discussion • Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
A conference paper on this subject has been presented recently.CISSR Annual Meeting on Christian OriginsBertinoro, October 3 – 5, 2024https://cissr.net/wp-content/uploads/20 ... gramme.pdfStephan...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Origen attesting to Cureton's 3 letter text...
All my reading so far suggests that nobody has really controverted Lightfoot's assumption that the Syriac version had no doctrinal motivations.That is surprising to me, but that's what I see so far.It...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Suggestions? Reed (κάλαμος) in Mark 15:19, 36
You asked for suggestions. I have this crazy idea that Clement belonged to a mystical tradition dating back to Philo. It's hard to figure out what it means. So please be kind. The theory would be that...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Chai Carabbas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGCjqzB2jPA15Verse Key Word Pretending Physical Abuse16 Then the soldiers led him into the courtyard of the palace (that is, the governor’s headquarters), and they...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Wine/Vinegar Zeta/Eta
The tradition of the transformation of the Greek letter zeta (Ζ) to eta (Η) involves a complex interplay of philological, paleographical, and philosophical interpretations, primarily concerning...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • An example of isopsephia
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/encyclopa ... /nero.htmlSuetonius relates an example of isopsephia when he records that graffiti appeared in both Greek and Latin lampooning Nero after he had his mother...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Wine/Vinegar Zeta/Eta
The Markan use of numbers and letters to convey cosmic and spiritual truths could indeed have roots in the philosophical tradition of Democritus and Aristotle, who viewed atoms and letters as...
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