Christian Texts and History • Re: 'The Letters of Paul in their Roman...
Often in the form of “personal” addressee engagement, both Seneca and the authors of the Pauline letters exploit the genre's ready accommodation of occasional or ordinary discourse to advance their...
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Christian Texts and History • Ludwig Paul on the Gospels being all post-Justin
https://markusvinzent.blogspot.com/2024 ... -book.htmlIt would seem that Ludwig Paul at the end agrees with C.F. Baur about the first gospel (i.e. the one preceding Justin) being the Gospel of the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On Crossan's proposition that Mark ended at...
It's my understanding/belief that Mk at one time ended at 13:37 after the "little apocalypse" that concluded with the admonish to watch and wait for the signs of the gloom and doom. These are final...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Roman empire psy-ops?
Rome, by defeating the Jews in 70 CE, generated the myth of the Jewish martyrs and created a leadership void that it had to fill. The Herodians became a thing of the past, as did the Temple.The...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Was Detering wrong about Galatians being...
I am persuaded by Livesey that all the Pauline epistles postdate Acts, a position held in past by Loman but never by Detering. She mentions Detering with respect but never Bob Price. Evidently the...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • A gentilic does not come before a toponym
Typically a gentilic refers to a person of a specified place.In "Nazareth and the Evolving Synoptic Tradition, By doktor spin""An analysis of the various forms of toponym and gentilic for Jesus found...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: How Did Clement Get the Idea that Marcion...
Margaret Barker offers a context for the statements in Job 26: The Book of Job affords glimpses of this fulller account of thecreation, including the angels and many other details not included...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
Another way to put it is that the "kings of the peoples" walked in the ways...So are you saying that the phrase from the Damascus Document "their wine is the venom of serpents" means serpents [kings...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: κυριος revisited
1 Sameul 24:6 is interesting, both per se and in context of other verses in 1 Samuel 24.1 (24:2) Καὶ ἐγενήθη ὡς ἀνέστρεψεν Σαοὺλ ἀπὸ ὄπισθεν τῶν ἀλλοφύλων, καὶ ἀπηγγέλη αὐτῷ λεγόντων ὅτι Δαυεὶδ ἐν τῇ...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • List of Abraham Dirk Loman's works
My interest in Loman's view is increased given the fact that he was the only radical critic who postaded all the epistles after Acts.Here I collect all the links...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: List of Abraham Dirk Loman's works
https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_gid00118880 ... 1_0025.phpStatistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Sat Dec 28, 2024 12:59 pm
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: On Seneca's 'Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium'
... I follow the clear majority of scholars since Griffin in believing that the correspondence is essentially fictional.1111. cf. Inwood 2005, 346: “it is now widely accepted . . . that the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Does your interpretation of probability...
Peter, thanks again for your posts on this. I'd like to use the COVID example you provided to specify my concerns about Carrier's Rank-Raglan class.Before responding I'd like to highlight these...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
I don't know what else to say about this, so I will cite Baumgarten, who sees this section in CD the same way I do.The princes of Judah are denounced towards the end of the ideological section of the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Signs That Origen Was Reusing an Older...
Celsus and the Composition of Origen’s Contra CelsumMuch has been written about Celsus, the pagan critic of Christianity, who is generally believed to have composed his treatise sometime between 160...
View ArticleOther Texts and History • Re: Examples of Pseudo-Isidore forged letters from...
Thanks, this is a helpful thread.In the forged material we also have material ascribed to Hyginus (2nd century) and Pope John II (Mercurius, early 6th century).Are they called Ps-Isidore? Not sure....
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Was Detering wrong about Galatians being...
simplest, most primitive formIt is romantic. Isn't it? Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Mon Dec 30, 2024 4:29 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: κυριος revisited
While waiting in hope that someone might deal with the topic, I present the κυριος data from 1 Clement, using Ehrman's Loeb edition of The Apostolic Fathers, vol.1, 2003. It shows to me that the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • For TFophiles ...
Has it been argued that Origen's explicit testimony on Josephus not having the TF in Contra Celsum is contradicted elsewhere in his writings? I would like to say to Celsus, who represents the Jew as...
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Possibly of interest, this book next to be published.To cap it all, Schmidt argues that Josephus probably received information about Jesus from those who were at his trial. This book should be widely...
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