Christian Texts and History • Re: A response to Dan Mcclellan's video...
Wow, excellent post! The parallels are fascinating and it makes sense to me that the Gospel narratives were partly inspired by Egyptian (or Greek) lore.Statistics: Posted by AdamKvanta — Sat Nov 30,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Interpreting a Bilby's quote...
I would ask to experts in English language. Does the following Bilby's quote imply that he agrees with a date of death for Jesus in 36 CE? The Matthean narrative situating Jesus' birth in the last...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Interpreting a Bilby's quote...
Dilemma resolved. He means the birth in 5-15 CE. Curiously, Bilby attributes truth to the hearsay reported in Eusebius about Pilate committing suicide under the threat of a mob desiring to avenge the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: My recreation of the opening of the First...
Thanks Jair. I'm trying to really finish up by book now. I probably won't go into much more detail here at the moment, but can summarize things I've already posted here. I'll say that my recreation of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Tacitus witness of Jesus but not of the...
he remembered that Josephus talked aboutIs there good evidence that Tacitus had read Josephus at all?yes. For example the fact that Tacitus reports the vision of the gods who abandoned the temple....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Mark 7:31–35 and Mark 8:22–26
Does this - Vespasian applying to his 'eye-balls with his spittle' - suggest a common source of both in knowledge of practices from what is known as magic?I think so, yes. Magic is the invoking of a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Questions about "Nazareth" /...
Question about Aramaic linguistics. In English we say that a person from Florida is a Floridian. But Florida is a Spanish word meaning "place of flowers". How would a Spanish speaker say that a person...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • The Septuagint
The term Septuagint is derived from the Latin septuaginta, an abbreviation of interpretatio secundum septuaginta seniores, that is, ‘the interpretation of the seventy elders’ ...Contemporary...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • In defense of agnosticism
.I believe that most members have much more knowledge and understanding than I do on the question of HJ or MJ. I haven't even read Carrier's book. The question of HJ or MJ doesn't really interest me...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: In defense of agnosticism
Thanks for the post, Kunigunde! If I may summarize:(1) There is no clear access to an older layer behind the texts.(1) (a) There is no clear access to pre-interpolated or pre-rewritten texts.(1) (b)...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A Stromateis of What (Part 3)
From Enrico Tuccnardi who ran a preliminary stylometric program comparing the letter to the Stromateis last week: Hello Stephan,Over the past few weeks, I’ve been able to revisit the necessary...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Did the Samaritan false prophet threaten the...
In another thread Peter has listed good reasons to believe that the prophecy of the destruction of the temple is not post-70.In particular:DeConick's idea, on the other hand, simply is sound: Jesus...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Did the Samaritan false prophet threaten...
Note the just remark by StephenGoranson:The text "Qumran as a counter temple movement" is somewhat ambiguous. IMO, while some Qumran texts present the contemporary Jerusalem temple and its high...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Legendary Ben Smith's TextExcavation Site
Thanks very much for making that archive, @marcin. This is extremely useful.On a separate note: Does anyone know what the 'source(s)' is/are for the "on-site" texts that Ben has posted? (I have...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Simon, Simon Peter, Peter, Cephas ...
On the topic of stones: Mark 12, Matthew 21:42, Luke 20, Acts 4, 1 Peter 2, and Psalm 118. “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” Any relationship?Could the name have ever...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Was wondering if someone could look at the...
Wouldn't the chronological order of the Israelites marching forwards to destroy the Moabites after Yahweh's promise of victory be seen as a massive commitment to him?The author of 2 Kings 3 said that...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: The Septuagint
Cameron Boyd-Taylor's "What is the Septuagint?" continuedThe Alexandrian CanonThe idea of an Alexandrian canon arose amidst early modern confessional debate over the text of the Old Testament. At...
View ArticleOther Texts and History • The Seven Deadly Sins
Interesting essay here, regarding the genetic basis of 'the Seven Deadly Sins' (which I have been examining as an ancient Jewish cosmological system, hinted at in Philo Judaeus) and therefore -...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is the Samaritan False Prophet found in the...
Giuseppe, can you provide the Slavonic quote - i.e. that the Slavonic passage says Pilate died in Caesarea.I have the Italian translation of the Slavonic (in a file pdf that doesn't allow to make...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: My complete cracked out theory on the Life...
The deal was after the crucifix fake-out Jesus would bounce & so he did becoming St.Thomas/St.Jude traveling far & wide, converting about a billion more ppl to Christianity before dying in his...
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