Christian Texts and History • Enslaved exiles as context for 1 Peter
Wars 3.10.10 says:Then came Vespasian, and ordered them all to stand in the stadium, and commanded them to kill the old men, together with the others that were useless, which were in number a thousand...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Origen, Josephus on James "against his...
----Important disclaimer: I don't know anything about ancient Greek.----I noticed that Origen uses the phrase "against his will" several times in Contra Celsus when referencing the views of earlier...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: The Second Sophistic
Atticism.... Atticism drew from Greece’s rich past and originated in its illustrious city of Athens .... .Attica was and, of course, still is the region around the famous Greek capital city, Athens,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
I see it as the head of the kings of Greece (let's say a Roman emperor) wreaking vengeance upon the kings of Greece (i.e., Hellenised Jewish kings, like the Herodians). And some have this as "who will...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Simon Peter is the successor to...
And out of curiosity, I looked up how many times the name "Peter" is used in the NT vs."Cephas" and got 156 for Peter and 9 for...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: If in Antiquities, why not in War, also?
spin: "....See the issue?"I guess not.I do not see that this proves that Josephus cannot have mentioned Jesus here, after all, following "outrage" involving Pilate. And before an account not involving...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Josephus on Persecutions during the First...
Wars 2.8.10They contemn the miseries of life, and are above pain, by the generosity of their mind. And as for death, if it will be for their glory, they esteem it better than living always; and indeed...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: This is written in the gospel according to...
And for what it's worthεἷς που = 765 = ἸουδαῖοςStatistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Sat Nov 09, 2024 8:47 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • What was a beloved disciple?
Janet Fairweather, "Fiction in the Biographies of Ancient Writers," Ancient Society (1974), vol. 5, p. 263.Associated with statements that x was the pupil of y, we frequently find, in Greek biography,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: What was a beloved disciple?
Very interesting references. I would add passages from apocryphal writings like this one from the Acts of John:...when I sat at meat he would take me upon his own breast; and sometimes his breast was...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire
For what it’s worth, Professor Barnea also holds that the Torah was written in the early Hellenistic Era, when (as he notes) the first traditions about Moses also appear, namely in the writings of...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Northern Traditions of Abraham as a King
1. And after the death of Abraham, Ishmael reigned twenty seven years.The legendary material could ultimately be related to the inscriptions of the 9th to 6th centuries, referring to a people that are...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Empty Room
There is a story in the Gospel of Nicodemus about how Joseph of Arimathea was locked up in a windowless room and mysteriously disappeared on the first day of the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: ὑπομνήματα (hypomnēmata), ἀπομνημονεύματα...
Ἀπομνημονεύματα - Apomnemoneumata - aka Memorabilia1 - is, of course, the title of Xenephon's collection of Socratic dialogues, essentially an apologia (ie., defence) of Socrates by Xenephon offering...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Testimonium Flavianum is at least 80%...
I previously commented on the context of the statement regarding "many of the Greeks."viewtopic.php?t=8537It started with an observation that this emphasis of the TF on the induction or leading...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • The development of Latinity
The following is modified from W. Martin Bloomer, 'Latinitas,' chapter 5 in The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic.Development of Latin prose and verse styles was in great part spurred on by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Testimonium Flavianum is at least 80%...
So the 'dog' barked after all and identified the murderer. Pilate, Rome's representative in Judaea, gave the order, gave permission, for the execution, crucifixion, murder, of Jesus. The core of the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: The name Caiaphas is from the...
I do detect some circular restatement in AdamKvanta’s posts. Let’s look at his central argument. Earlier, he has cited a number of examples in Rabbinical writings where there was an interchange...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Legendary Ben Smith's TextExcavation Site
Hello,Here is the link to a static archive on dropboxhttps://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sk02w4ll ... rlebg&dl=0and below, the content is posted on my private resources, however I cannot guarantee it...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: How many is many?
Since Luke 1:1 points to a non-canonized text prior to Luke, what was it?So far I have a few candidates. "Proto-Luke" - just a classic generic term from the history of the synoptic problem that takes...
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