Christian Texts and History • Re: Nazareth in the Caesarea Maritima...
What that means is that noting that Jerry Vardaman (with possible support at times from Nikos Kokkinos and definite support even today from Ronald L. Conte) is generally considered delusional in his...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Nazareth in the Caesarea Maritima...
Jerry Vardaman could have become convinced of Nazareth in the priestly courses from:Samuel Klein and the liturgical hymnMichael Avi-Yonah, based on Klein, published in 1962, likely available earlier,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Adler Method applied to Christian...
So if we are talking about Adler's method, then Adler in his book is clear that he is:(1) Studying the social history of a distinctly identified people, the Judeans.(2) Studying the archaeological...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Hellenistic Judaism
A point can be made that certain of the Hasmoneans were both connected to Hellenistic Judaism and in conflict with Pharisees. As such, the anti-Pharisaic element to be found in the Hellenistic Judaism...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: The Septuagint
Volume 54 Issue 4-5 of the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Oct 2023, was a special Issue: The Septuagint within the History of Greek.IntroductionThe Septuagint within the History of Greek by Marieke...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Christian silver amulet with inscription...
The mention of Saint Titus mitigates towards the rise of the cult of the saints in the later 4th century. A specific and late (at least 4th century) text "The Acts of Titus" may also form part of the...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • 'Conversion to Judaism & Hostility toward Jews...
Katell Berthelot (2024) 'Conversion to Judaism and Hostility toward Jews in the Roman Empire: The Complementary Perspectives of Philo and Tacitus' Journal for the Study of Judaism 55(3): pp....
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • 'Early Configurations of Jewish Prayer:...
Bakker, Arjen (2024) 'Early Configurations of Jewish Prayer: Translating Sacrifice in the Second Temple Period' Journal for the Study of Judaism 55(4-5): 459-489AbstractThe argument of this article is...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Christian Origins in three pages
Collins then counts a third anti-rabbinic group, the Gnostics:A three-sided struggle took place in and around Judaism during the first two centuries C.E. Two of the wings were Christianity as an...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Gen. 14, Persian Era--B. Suchard
"A literary argument against Genesis 14’s lateness"by Benjamin SuchardDec. 12, 2024https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/2024/1 ... -lateness/Statistics: Posted by StephenGoranson — Thu Dec 12, 2024 6:13 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
Footnote 17: Hoehner, Herod Antipas pg. 138 n. 4, observes that there were several uncle-niece marriages in the Herodian family.Great source! Thank you. Here's the full quote (Hoehner, Herod Antipas...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: The Didache.
But thats still interesting, in the sense that it does seem to imply that both are known, and both seem to be thought of independently. So the relationship has to be extremely early.Indeed. The Codex...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Neil Godfrey:The Folly of Bayesian Probability...
The Folly of Bayesian Probability in “Doing History”https://vridar.org/2024/12/13/the-folly ... g-history/Reason #1: If our question is simply, Did Jesus Exist? then it is meaningless. What is of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Using ChatGPT
A Tale of Two Traditions: Comparing the Frankfurt Amulet and The Long Lost FriendThe Frankfurt silver amulet, newly discovered and dated to the mid-3rd century, and the Pennsylvania German book The...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On the Neil Godfrey's criticism against...
Godfrey continues to attack Carrier without reason:Reason #1: If our question is simply, Did Jesus Exist? then it is meaningless. What is of interest is the question of how Christianity originated....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Why Paul had to be from Tarsus
Tarsus is in modern day Turkey. Tarshish is in modern day Spain.Yes, but in ancient times it was thought that the biblical Tarshish (Hebrew Bible) was Tarsus in Cilicia (Turkey).Josephus Flavius, AJ...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Antitheses-Like References in Stromata 3
3.3.12.1 Now, if both Plato himself and the Pythagoreans had held, as indeed later also did those from Marcion, that creation is evil (though Plato was far from proposing the communal possession of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • noteworthy references
Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, Ancient Epistolary Fictions: The Letter in Greek Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature, eds. Patricia A....
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: The Second Sophistic
More recently, scholars have found the term “Second Sophistic” to be less helpful as an explanatory term. The term stems from Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists and envisions the circle of sophists...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 'The Letters of Paul in their Roman...
Pauline letters can be viewed alongside a well-known, popular, and contemporaneous literary genre. As Owen Hodkinson remarks, pseudonymous letters attributed to a known figure were by far “the most...
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