Christian Texts and History • Re: Neil Godfrey:The Folly of Bayesian...
Neil Godfrey has taken Richard Carrier's use of Bayes to task i.e. that Bayes is not a method for either estalishing or negating the assumed historicity of the gospel figure of Jesus. Years ago, when...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Reception of Harnack's work on Marcion?
I'm trying to get an understanding of how Harnack's book Marcion: The Gospel of an Alien God was received in its own time. Anyone know of good sources that address this?Statistics: Posted by rgprice —...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Bar-Timaeus the blind - Marcion's...
I think the name Bar-Timaeus is a reference to Plato. Bar-Timaeus is not a generic name like John, but a pretty unusual and specific one. Timaeus was basically the third most well known Greek book at...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Reception of Harnack's work on Marcion?
Read the reviews.E.g.,Marcion: das Evangelium vom fremden Gott: eine Monographie zur Geschichte der Grundlegung der katholischen KircheBy: Lagrange, Marie-Joseph. Source: Revue biblique, 30 no 4 1921,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: again: Did Josephus mention Jesus?
One of the proposals is that since Josephus mentioned the Baptist and James he likely also mentioned Jesus.Yes, since Josephus mentioned the Baptist and James he likely also mentioned Jesus — as he...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Jewish Origins without Paul versus Gnostic...
Richard Carrier has enumerated, about the (universally recognized) elements of background, the claim that the Origins of the Christianity are Jewish, i.e. Judean/Samaritan (or at most Diasporic...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Nazareth in the Caesarea Maritima...
Was the Frenchman who found the Rosetta Stone a good person, pure heart, clean hands? I don't know. Were the British who took it away from the French--and away from the Egyptians!--otherwise, nice...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 12 Reasons the Paulines are not Marcionite
if you assume the author or Revelation as addressing true Jews there, then you can't argue in the same time for Babylon being Rome but accordingly you have to conclude that Babylon is the earthly...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: An anti-demiurgical Paul == a post-70 Paul
because we have evidence of Pagans hating YHWH (not merely the Jews but YHWH) only in the second century.Can you prove that all anti-demiurgists were merely "Pagans hating YHWH" instead of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Paul is a composite of Philo and Marcus...
by maryhelena » Mon Dec 16, 2024 2:21 am"....the NT figure of Paul is, like the gospel Jesus figure, a composite literary figure. ........I would nominate two prominent historical figures - Philo and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Adler Method applied to Christian...
Adler, The Origins of Judaism, p. 7 (highlighting added)To reiterate a crucial point from above, the present study does not seek to explore the origins of the notion of a Mosaic “instruction” (tôrāh),...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • What are the earliest recorded Christian...
Do we have anything from the church fathers which amount to a prayer for enemies of the faith?Statistics: Posted by allegoria — Mon Dec 16, 2024 7:36 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Bar-Timaeus the blind - Marcion's...
Tertullian says that Marcion gave an interpretation of the scene in his Antithesis that is as follows: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/03124.htmFor (here is one of Marcion's Antitheses): whereas...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Reception of Harnack's work on Marcion?
You can leave it this way or that way. It doesn't matter.BTW. In Poland, no one cares about the term anti-Semite because it was used so often that it was discredited. If someone uses it against...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: “The Concept of Our Great Power” may...
You say that a Pagan wrote this text in polemic against Christianity. Hence in full knowledge of the Christian myth. Obviously the Detering's view quoted in this thread would make this text more...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Nazareth & Nazarenes and gentilics &...
According to the NT, there was a town called Nazareth, where Jesus was from. Various Naz- word uses were interpreted by some early Christians as related to that place name and folks from there, as...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • 5 Reasons the Paulines are Marcionite
(Assuming the epistles are already forgeries)1) the name, Paulus, seems the best choice Marcion himself could do.2) diffuse references to "God the Father". It makes more sense in reference to a new...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 5 Reasons the Paulines are Marcionite
They definitely aren't Marcionite, because the earliest witness to the Pauline letter collection is the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Mark pre-dates Marcion's Gospel. Marc + Paul comes before...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: zoom "Echoes of Egypt: Uncovering Lexical...
reminder, if interested: it's today.Statistics: Posted by StephenGoranson — Wed Dec 18, 2024 5:27 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Biggest reason to doubt that Paul existed
I go back and forth on whether I think Paul really existed, but I think there is one major reason to doubt that he did. The orthodox understanding of Paul and pretty much every aspect of the origins...
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