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Christian Texts and History • Re: Josephus and Holy Men
There can't just be apologists and whack jobs.Which is your category then? Statistics: Posted by spin — Sat Nov 16, 2024 12:08 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: W. E Barnes, The Testimony of Josephus to...
Since we don't have autographs, anything is hypothetically possible.If we don't follow what looks likely, then we can do anything we want with the texts.So the interpolation of the TF into Josephus is...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is There Evidence that Irenaeus Read Celsus?
On the relation between Clement and Irenaeus. One possible use of Irenaeus by Clement is discussed here. I'm not sure how convincing is the link between Clement and Irenaeus on Epiphanes but if valid...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Expectancy
The Antiquities is a 20-volume work completely disconnected from 'the masses'.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Sat Nov 16, 2024 9:42 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Josephus on Persecutions during the First...
This fragment often traced back to Tacitus (found embedded in a later Latin work) would confirm such an attitude or policy during the war, on the part of Vespasian and/or...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Emperor's New Book: Volume 1: Political...
Congrats on the book!Thanks PK. About half a dozen footnotes (out of 487) link to your ECW website. Particularly the analyses within the book defer to ECW in regard to the mainstream chronology (date...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • That Last Hand Almost Killed Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4gdlfamoJW:Just for you spin. I wouldn't do this for anyone else:Description Character AnecdotesHoni (Onias) the Circle-DrawerAJ 14.22-25 (14.2.1-2)Now there was a...
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Academic Discussion • Re: Luke-Acts: A Historian Synopsis
Here's the rest of the Schonfield pages:The thing about Schonfield is that he can think outside the box, but his reconstructions (like Rome leasing Damascus to Aretas of Petra) and his proposed...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: W. E Barnes, The Testimony of Josephus to...
But to answer your question, let's start with what Eusebius says about the TF, rather than the TF quote itself. In Book III of Demonstration of the Gospel, Eusebius does not use the TF in Chapter 3...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: John the Baptist - festivities and...
Unless the birthday festivities were held in Machaerus, or nearby.A Commentary on St. Matthew's Gospel, etc (1866)Eustace Rogers Condorhttps://books.google.com/books?id=JUtVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA240Verne...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • "He was a murder from the beginning"
Obviously John 8:44 is a very controversial passage. There is much debate about how to interpret the beginning and ending of the verse, but what about the middle?44 You are of your father the devil...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Robert Spencer's Muhammad Agnosticism...
The unnamed Samaritan prophet slain by Pilate has three features that are expected under the hypothesis that he was the historical Jesus:Samaritanism: how many traces of Samaritanism are found in the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Thomas L. Brodie on Josephus and the TF
From what [Brodie] wrote, [quoted] above, I'd be surprised if Brodie would find any value in a whole cloth Eusebius TF interpolation.What is certain is that it is extremely risky to conclude that...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Stone Temple Pilates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm-po_FUmvMVerse What is where it's not supposed to be? Commentary1616 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Josephus and Holy Men
StephenGoranson, having trouble seeing the forest because of the trees.Statistics: Posted by spin — Mon Nov 18, 2024 7:12 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Didache
There is a good discussion of the Didache hereAndrew Criddle"Mack states on the provenance of the Didache (op. cit., pp. 241-242): "It is not unthinkable that both the Didache and the Gospel of...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: That Last Hand Almost Killed Me
Observations:1) The general style of the time was to provide anecdotes that supported the presented character of the subject. Lots of examples could be shown.2) More important is the individual style...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Dating the Gospel of Mark
This post uses three pieces of internal evidence to date the Gospel of Mark. There is special attention paid to the terminus ad quem of a dating range for Mark. The widely-accepted evidence that the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: "He was a murder from the beginning"
@Peter, perhaps you're proving the point. And I apologize for having two threads covering much of the same ground here, but it appears that Litwa makes much of the case I was poking at here, as...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: John 8: Who is the Father of the Jews?
I think he's saying that views about the Jewish deity among some 'non-orthodox' early Christian groups1 aligned with interpretations of this verse. essentially, I think he did infer 'arose,' but I'm...
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