Christian Texts and History • Re: Paul Had No Peter …
I think for the letter Galatians to have two contemporary persons from the same group, each with extremely rare personal names, one Greek and the other Aramaic, both of which, as a noun, mean rock or...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is There Evidence that Irenaeus Read Celsus?
Not sure that clarus isn't a misunderstanding or garbled reference to Epiphanes. Are you sure of the alternative?Irenaeus is generally thought to have written in Greek. The Greek text is generally...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Luke-Acts used Wars, not Antiquities
C) Luke 5.1 begins ‘in the days of Herod, king of Judea’ and introduces the story of the annunciation of John the Baptist’s birth to John’s father Zechariah. Luke 2.1-3 introduces the story of Jesus...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: John the Baptist - festivities and...
However, this idea only arises if there is a harmonious understanding of Josephus and Mark. One would have to assume that Mark's (/Matthew's) report is factually correct (and not just a literary...
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 • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
That's true, agreed, John2, you have not claimed that all Qumran scrolls are from the first century CE.But, in view of this thread, is it correct to say that you, John2, do claim that all Qumran texts...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • On the Neil Godfrey's criticism against Richard...
Neil Godfrey writes:A fundamental point on which I disagree with Carrier is the claim that the most a historian can say about any historical event is that it is “probably”...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Legendary Ben Smith's TextExcavation Site
In order to save textexcavation content on more reliable and stable site than my server, I decided to upload the content also into web.archive.web, so now the original website www.textexcavation.com...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On the Neil Godfrey's criticism against...
Godfrey insists again and again on the his absolute certainty that the WWII is a fact with probability.WWII was and is a fact with 100% certainty.But he ignores the equally probable fact that within...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is There Evidence that Irenaeus Read Celsus?
Not sure that clarus isn't a misunderstanding or garbled reference to Epiphanes. Are you sure of the alternative?Irenaeus is generally thought to have written in Greek. The Greek text is generally...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Does Suetonius refer to someone generally...
It may be worth mentioning what the earliest sources say about Simon the magician.Acts 8:9-11 A man named Simon used to practice magic in the city and astounded the people of Samaria, claiming to be...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Luke 12:54-55 from the perspective of...
This article provides examples of how Septuagint translators improved geographical accuracy by changing "east wind" to south wind (notus) in Egypt, given that the hot wind came from the south in...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • David Trobisch - Paul maybe is fabricated
Two days ago, Peter Kirby and I had an excellent discussion from my point of view, in which we touched on many topics, including the question of Paul's authenticity. We spoke publicly, so I will allow...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: David Trobisch - Paul maybe is fabricated
BTW..I encourage all my fans to review my discussion with Peter Kirby which has been very fruitful and will certainly bring progress to my work in the long term. You will also find there a new version...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Luke-Acts: A Historian Synopsis
There's a trio of geographical details about Jerusalem that are interesting, partly because the author is argued to have generally very little direct knowledge of Palestinian...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Josephus and Holy Men
I just clarified what the rules are and what the purpose of that area is (more respectful discussion).Deciding what is or is not academic content, post by post, would open a can of worms.Your advice...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Why aren't there more interpolations?
One possibility might be that the TF interpolation was done in the fourth century CE as a way to oppose Jewish arguments. The Christian counter-argument would be that the most prominent Jewish...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • the tertiary group of nomina sacra
There is a division of the nomina sacra into three groups, (and a few rare leftovers) where the third group is the latest or least likely.=========Pre-Constantinian nomina sacra in a Mosaic and Church...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Pauline letters on "rulers"
I think my question is about how to explain such fundamentally contradictory views. "there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God""rulers are not a cause of fear...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Temple Doors
This was an interesting teaching from Jonathan Cahn.The tapes were available at his Messianic meetings.This has nothing to do with his later celebrity “prophecy” stuff, like The Harbinger.Hmmm, Looks...
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