Christian Texts and History • Could the “goad” in Ecclesiastes 12:21 refer to...
12:11 The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. 12 My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Faking Mark - the most honest attempt ever...
JW:Well let's lookee at an actual Markan pericope and see what's reMarkable:I agree. That's why it's so difficult. Matthew couldn't even write a pericope in his own material with a typical tightening...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: R.I.P. Richard B. Hays (May 4, 1948 -...
He was also of the opinion that GMark represented a high Christology, which he did not see explicitly expressed but rather told in individual scenes, allusions and images.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleClassical Texts and History • Re: The Miraculous Birth of Mithras
see pp. 87-89 here, https://www.academia.edu/45008955/DEO_S ... TO_MITHRAE, especially p. 88.(from Peter Georgiev who seems to have published a lot in this field; see...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 'Ancient Christianities: The First Five...
The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman...
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Classical Texts and History • Mithra Iconography
see pp. 87-89 here, https://www.academia.edu/45008955/DEO_S ... TO_MITHRAE, especially p. 88. (from Peter Georgiev who seems to have published a lot in this field; see...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Role of the Letter-Carriers in 1 Clement
The early Christian text known as 1 Clement is, to focus attention on in its epistolary features, a rather unusual letter. Three features in particular mark it out as unusual within the epistolary...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • The Bar Kokhba Letters/Documents
Discerned from Klauck, (2006) Ancient Letters and the New Testament: A Guide to Context and Exegesis, pp. 289-96.In 1952 some texts were found in Wadi Murabbaat, on the western side of the Dead Sea,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Super Gospel
Someone's actually made The Super Gospel.https://scriptural-truth.com/PDF_Apocry ... NFANCY.pdfMaybe you can do something with this, SA.Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Sun Jan 05, 2025 9:19 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Super Gospel
That someone made a new song. Listen to This is It by Zuzu Acrobats on #SoundCloudhttps://on.soundcloud.com/Dw3Tmn3LWDNQf8GAA. I will look at this during the week. Thanks.Statistics: Posted by Secret...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Oskar Goldberg, Die Wirklichkeit der Hebraeer...
Dear Colleague,What is the basis for your claim that Goldberg was: "crank dilettante"? Just because Scholem, Benjamin and Mann had inferiority complex towards him and developed quite severe...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 'The Letters of Paul in their Roman...
More questions present themselves:(1) What is the minimum definition of a "school"?(2) What is the minimum required to consider a school "Pauline"? For example, if this "school" that was producing...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Who uses Mark 13:7 to date Mark?
13:7: When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.The best example of "rumor of wars" in my opinion is the hearsay about revolts...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Minor Discovery! The Thorapeutikum of...
Since 2018, I've been researching the scholarship of the Edelsteins (Ludwig & Emma) along this line: how did they (possibly) become interested in Philo's Therapeutae and (mystical Judaic)...
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Christian Texts and History • Implications if (a great IF) the Testimonium...
Godfrey writes:(A passage found in a work by the Jewish historian Josephus, even if only partially authentic, can tell us nothing more than what was being said about Jesus some sixty years after he...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Trypho's Statements in Justin's Dialogue
Celsus knows and uses Justin. While most of the material cited comes from 1 Apology, the facts are that Justin is unlikely to be an entirely fictitious personage. The debate with a Jew or Jews seems...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Schmidt on the Testimonium Flavianum
I judge positively the following claims and I would like to hear more along the same lines by Schmidt:The qualification ‘if indeed it is appropriate to call him a man’ is similar to the way Josephus...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Role of the Letter-Carriers in 1 Clement
DCHindley, above, in part:"....Same goes for Paul, or Clement or Origen or Irenaeus. They all probably had patrons (masters) and did their bidding, the religion part being their private gig. They were...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On the Neil Godfrey's criticism against...
Carrier has raised a criticism against Godfrey that is really cruel insofar talks a lot about how Godfrey is perceived my me:It is not logically possible to take the position that “we do not know...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A Play with Mirrors: The Parable of the Sower
Words should be scattered like seed; no matter how small the seed may be, if it once has found favorable ground, it unfolds its strength and from an insignificant thing spreads to its greatest growth....
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