Christian Texts and History • Re: What is the earliest evidence that Nazareth...
Above, Steven Avery » Mon Dec 02, 2024 7:12 pm, in part:"Hi Stephen,Whose itinerary was this?"As mentioned in the OP and repeated in the thread, it is the itinerary of "The Piacenza pilgrim."My...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Did Adamantius really use Marcion's Gospel?
In Adamantius' Dialogue on the True Faith in God he claims to quote from Marcion's Gospel multiple times. Does he really have Marcion's Gospel? Is he really proving accurate quotes from it? Do we have...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Giuseppe's stumbling block: Pilate
However, John lays a strong foundation for a negative answer in 4:9, where Jesus in Samaritan territory asks a Samaritan woman for a drink of water, and she responds "“You are a Jew and I am a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Blind Man at Jericho...
This one has me stumped. This is a very perplexing scene in terms of trying to understand how it may have developed. Here are the versions of it across the Gospels:Mark 10:46 Then they came to...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: Suetonius's 'The Twelve Caesars'
Smith, Clement Lawrence (1901) "A Preliminary Study of Certain Manuscripts of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars" Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 12: 19–58 (fully available here).. Kaster, Robert...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Blind Man at Jericho...
It was originally about Jesus NOT being the son of David. The Gospel of Barnabas as a similar idea.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Thu Dec 05, 2024 3:59 am
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Textual Criticism and Nazareth/Nazarene
Peter Kirby, above, in part:"Is Acts 24:5 based on anything? Was there a sect with a name like this?"Relevant to this question is the third-century Persian inscription of the Zoroastrian priest...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Nasaraeans (with sigma), Nasaraioi
Epiphanius had many sources. Though he did not always fully understand them or properly combine them, he preserved much, some of which would otherwise be lost.In his Panarion Epiphanius listed his...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A Stromateis of What (Part 3)
I don't want to reproduce my personal correspondences with the professor. But the last sentence is from one of those emails. He doesn't think that the Bishop of Alexandria had to be celibate....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Acts 24:5--in what sense "heresy"?
There has been much discussion here on Nazarenes. In my opinion it is important to consult not only the four canonical gospels, but other uses and cognates as well. Presuppositions can mislead; one...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • List of all town named by Josephus?
Does anyone have a listing of all the Jewish towns identified by Josephus?Statistics: Posted by rgprice — Fri Dec 06, 2024 5:49 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Any places named in Mark that are not named by...
Are there any places in the Gospel of Mark (other than Nazareth) that are not mentioned in the works of Josephus?Statistics: Posted by rgprice — Fri Dec 06, 2024 6:29 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: List of all town named by Josephus?
All proper nouns in Namenwörterbuch zu Flavius Josephus.Creator Main A:Schalit, AbrahamImprint Main A:Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1968 [1969]A complete concordance to Flavius Josephus, edited by Karl...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Acts 24:5--in what sense "heresy"?
Tertullus to Felix:5 "εὑρόντες γὰρ τὸν ἄνδρα τοῦτον λοιμὸν, καὶ κινοῦντα στάσεις πᾶσιν τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις τοῖς κατὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην; πρωτοστάτην1 τε τῆς τῶν Ναζωραίων αἱρέσεως ..."5 “for having found this...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Any places named in Mark that are not named...
An interesting potential resource for this: https://www.openbible.info/geo/preview/markStatistics: Posted by rgprice — Fri Dec 06, 2024 7:04 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Nazareth in the Caesarea Maritima inscription -...
The Caesarea Maritima Inscription with Nazareth as the 19th courseThe forgery concern involving Jerry Vardaman is worth careful analysis.Enrico Tuccinardi mentions it on BCHF here ( enricotuccinardi...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: R. Gmirkin on synoptic gospels
The article starts by noting the contradiction between the Synoptics:Thursday eveningNisan 14PassoverArrestFridayNisan 15High DayTrial(s) and CrucifixionSaturdayNisan 16In the TombSundayNisan...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Mutual Awareness in Early Christian...
As the shared scriptures appear chronologically in Stromateis 3: 3 1 § 1: Matthew 19:123 1 § 4: Matthew 19:123 2 § 1: 1 Corinthians 7:93 4 § 3: Matthew 19:123 4 § 3: 1 Corinthians 7:93 8 § 6: Romans...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On the Neil Godfrey's criticism against...
Godfrey InterpretedDifference between Godfrey and Earl Doherty:Earl DohertyGodfreyJack writes:My primary problem with attempts to prove or disprove the historicity of Jesus is that, even if we can...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
Here's a bigger issue for me regarding Onias though (and I think Wise brings this up). Thus far, you and I agree that the Kittim in the writings about the Teacher are the Romans. If the pesharim and...
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