Christian Texts and History • Re: Mark 7:31–35 and Mark 8:22–26
My take is the spittle and mud are just typical Markan enhancements, which tend to be shallow and pedantic.By far the majority of unique words and phrases in found in Mark fall into the category of...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Trypho's Statements in Justin's Dialogue
Justin argues that if prophets had continued among the Jews after John the Baptist, one might reasonably doubt his claims; however, since John preached repentance and ceased prophesying when Jesus...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Gmirkin translation proposal is false
I’m not sure why Stephen Goranson prefers the research of Camilla Recalcati to that of Jan Joosten. Camilla Recalcati is a student who has only recently gotten her PhD and is currently engaged in the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Schmidt on the Testimonium Flavianum
I have not read the book--Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ 22 May 2025by T. C. Schmidt, Oxford U Press--but the five pre-publication reviews at amazon, some by reviewers that...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • StephenGoranson woo
Obviously, Josephus didn't write about Jesus. Origen practically tells us so, for Origen had no trouble referring to Josephus on John the Baptist, despite seeing Josephus as a hostile witness. There...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 'The Letters of Paul in their Roman...
https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/abstr ... x?id=46611The Inference of Situational Stability in Paul's LettersIn his 1968 article in Philosophy & Rhetoric, Lloyd Bitzer developed a theory of the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Does your interpretation of probability...
So if you want to get a different prior, you have to prove—and prove with empirical facts, not just gut “feelings” or unevidenced assertions—that Jesus belongs to a reference class whose members exist...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
I realize now that I've been confused. I've been taking you to mean that the princes of Judah were foreign kings, and I've been assuming that the "kings of the peoples" and "kings of Greece" referred...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • 'Letter and Communities'
Letters and Communities: Studies in the Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography, edited by Paola Ceccarelli, Lutz Doering, Thorsten Fögen, and Ingo Gildenhard, OUP, 2018DescriptionThe...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: On Seneca's 'Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium'
Soldo, Janja (2021) Seneca: Epistulae Morales Book 2: A Commentary with Text, Translation & Introduction, Oxford.Statistics: Posted by MrMacSon — Wed Jan 01, 2025 1:12 pm
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: A gentilic does not come before a toponym
Typically a gentilic refers to a person of a specified place.[...]Are there credible examples in which "the gentilic came before the toponym"?If we allow for a liberal interpretation of the term...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Oskar Goldberg, Die Wirklichkeit der Hebraeer...
Hello,Die Wirklichkeit der Hebraeer was translated to Polish (2012) and the fragment of chapter IX was translated to English - to be published by EOY 2025.Die Fuenf Buecher Moses - Ein Zahlengebaude...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: κυριος revisited
If I am correct about Paul's usage of κυριος, ie as a theonym for the Hebrew god and as a title for Jesus, who would then like to interpret Gal 1:19's "James the brother of the Lord"?To me it's easier...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Luke-Acts: A Historian Synopsis
One interesting thing about your table is there is only one case of an allusion between L-A and just War that doesn't appear in any other column.Statistics: Posted by perseusomega9 — Sat Jan 04, 2025...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Ancient Christianities..., by Paula Fredriksen
While awaiting, among others, books by Mark Goodacre on John as Synoptic (final edition), Thomas C. Schmidt on TF, and Daniel R. Schwartz on Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 8:...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Gmirkin translation proposal is false
Because the presentation by Dr. Camilla Recalcati was recorded, and we were told that it will be made available online, it consider it better for her speak in detail for herself.(Other recorded...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Hasmonean Coin hoard from ~80 BCE
This recent discover may be of interest to some members:Jerusalem PostArchaeologists discover rare hoard of Hasmonean coins in Jordan ValleyThe hoard includes coins exclusively from Alexander...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Hasmonean Coin hoard from ~80 BCE
Those coins are not rare. We found very many at Sepphoris.The Jannaeus coins that ARE rare are the ones that identify him as king and (high) priest, as discussed by Dan B. Barag, Alexander...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Mark 7:31–35 and Mark 8:22–26
Do these details come from magical practice, as Morton Smith suggested?If so, why are they in Mark?I've remembered a website on the magical acts of Jesus, based on the author's PhD dissertation (the...
View ArticleAcademic Discussion • Re: Dating the Gospel of Mark
Hi Peter,Do you have any compelling reason against an early Mark’s Gospel?E.g. AD 40s.Thanks!StevenOne compelling reason: only apologists believe that tripe.Statistics: Posted by perseusomega9 — Sun...
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