Christian Texts and History • Re: Does Suetonius refer to someone generally...
Here is a poem by Martial (found in Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism, Vol.1 p.526, item 242):Nulli munera, Chreste, si remittis,nec nobis dederis remiserisque:credam te satis esse...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Nazareth in the Caesarea Maritima...
I agree that the 'microletters' claims made by the late Jerry Vardaman were nonsense (IMHO delusional) but that is weak grounds for suspecting him of deliberate forgery. Andrew CriddleStatistics:...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Sodom & Gemorrah: Meteor Strike?
You have to understand that these societies have to grapple with the fall of a city, and the ruins that existed that most likely made up these stories. After the marib dam collapsed in the 6th...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Legendary Ben Smith's TextExcavation Site
So, to (possibly) answer my own question: It appears that the text on Ben Smith's Text-Excavation site (at least, that for the Apostolic Fathers) follows the 1891 transcription by J.B. Lightfoot (the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Tertullian Says All the Apostles were...
The Lord Himself opens the kingdom of heaven to eunuchs, and the Apostle, looking to Him, preferred continence, being himself castrated.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Sat Dec 07, 2024 7:05 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: "Alas, a fly has landed on that...
A statement about "the best explanation for the literature that we have coming out of the early period of Christianity" like the above can be criticized as not providing nearly a complete enough...
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Christian Origins in three pages
The following diagram is offered regarding intellectual developments in the first few centuries CE.Randall Collins, The Sociology of Philosophies, p. 117With this key:162 Rutilius Rufus (Stoic)163...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Bar-Timaeus the blind - Marcion's interpretation
I've been studying the scene from Mark where Jesus heals a blind man on his way to Jerusalem. This scene is quite fascinating and very challenging to fully understand. It has a number of distinctive...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Question on MSS of Luke "Nazarene"
BeDuhn states: 4.34 Tertullian, Marc. 4.7.9, 12–14; 5.6.7. The Evangelion lacks “Nazarene” after Jesus, which is found in Luke and in the parallel episode in Mark. It also is missing the exclamation...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Question on MSS of Luke "Nazarene"
Is he saying that these manuscripts lack "ah!' or that they lack both "ah!" and "Nazarene"? D (Codex Bezae) is of course generally regarded as problematic.Bezae (6th and 5th line from the bottom)...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Mark.How Much Ironic...
Joseph W., do these cohere?:a) your puns and general mocking of religion(s), bolstered by your often quoting Ambrose Bierce, an anti-religionist, almost as revered scripture.b) your announcement here...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Opinions? Is Philo's Carabas story the source...
I'm currently studying Mark 15:16-20 a little more intensively and am thinking about whether Philo's Carabas story was Mark's inspiration. But I'm very worried about whether I'm falling victim to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Opinions? Is Philo's Carabas story the...
Believe it or not I wrote about this before and it became the basis for an awful book. Nonetheless the question remains, why is anti-Christian rhetoric being directed against someone named Mark?...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • zoom "Echoes of Egypt: Uncovering Lexical...
fwd:Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming Orion Center Greenfield Scholars’ Seminar: “Echoes of Egypt: Uncovering Lexical Traces in the Septuagint” Dr. Camilla RecalcatiThe...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Adler Method applied to Christian...
If Adler's method is applicable to the origins of Judaism, then it should also be applicable to the Origins of Christianity. If readers disagree speak up.25:40The method is actually quite simple and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Food for thought: Classical writers on Jews,...
According to the citations published in Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism, V.1 (Jerusalem 1976), edited by Menahem Stern, the following writers from the second half of the first century...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Food for thought: Classical writers on...
Secret society.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Tue Dec 10, 2024 5:52 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Is the Genre of the Gospels "apology"?
In order to be at least able to answer, I would need a list of works in Antiquity that can be defined "apologies" in genre;The next step is to know if the same strategy is shared by such works and by...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is the Genre of the Gospels...
For a thing, I see that by denying the genre "apology" to the Gospels, Ehrman digs their grave with his own hands:What’s your take on Mark’s Gospel as an apology instead… to defend who Jesus was and...
View ArticleGeneral Religious Discussion • Re: First thoughts on: Muhammad. A Critical...
Aren't both Robert Spencer and Jay Smith simply apologists with no academic backgrounds? I'm wondering why anyone would take anything they say seriously. Spencer already admits that the mainstream...
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