Christian Texts and History • New online catalogue of translations of early...
I wanted to let everyone here know about a project I have been working on to catalogue and make more accessible translations of early Christian writings. The focus is on first and secondary century...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • "Prophets, Intrigue and Redemption at the...
"Recording of Dr. Gad Barnea's public lecture for the Penn State Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies on “Prophets, Intrigue and Redemption at the Achaemenid court: 4Q550 as...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 compelling for...
Watch my latest interaction with Godless Engineer, I abandoned my views on Marcion's Paul and reverted back to my original views on canonical Paul's priority, thus I believe all of 1 Thessalonians...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is Paul accused of being a "wolf"?
Hansert's view explains why Mark was loved by "Peter", despite of the fact that Mark has inherited partially the anti-Petrine trend from *Ev: 1 Peter 5:13 She who is in Babylon, chosen together with...
View ArticleGeneral Religious Discussion • Re: Studying early Christian writings to...
I grew up knowing very little about Jesus beyond his significance to contemporary Christians and the way his image echoes the familiar figure of Santa Claus. Over time, through reading early Christian...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Paul is a composite of Philo and Marcus...
....And if there is no historical NT figure of Paul ..?You can call the figure anything you like, but you'd have to explain why an ancient conspiracy Since I'm not arguing for any conspiracy regarding...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Irony, Irony. No Escaping Irony.
The parable seems to raise three questions, with the focus clearly on the latter question:- Who is the sower?- What is the seed?- What are the four different types of soil?4Again he began to teach...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • On the real intention of Mark: was he more...
In support of more anti-Marcionism:A better approach to John the Baptist;Jesus's family is now really there out;Herod is excluded from the Passion story."It is not fair to take the children's food and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On the real intention of Mark: was he more...
The blunt epilogue in 16:8 (insinuation that Peter was left to himself) sounds so blatantly ad hoc against Peter, that it is impossible that Mark didn't know about an alternative epilogue from a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Hypothesis: Wicked Priest = Herod Agrippa...
Rather than break up your well-written post, I thought I'd just mention some things that came to mind as I read it.As far as "builders of the wall" goes, I don't think it needs to exactly match the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On the Neil Godfrey's criticism against...
Greetings, NeilHappy New Year.Just to clarify something that may confuse some readers. Although the tag on your recent post shows a quote from me:On two points arising:...In fact, both of the interior...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: "Prophets, Intrigue and Redemption at the...
Abstract: “A newly restored small Aramaic scroll from Qumran called 4Q550 reveals an unexpected text: it contains an Achaemenid Persian court-tale set in the court of king Xerxes I. The narrative’s...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Anti-marcionism behind ἐκβάλλει in Mark 1:12 ?
Mark 1:12 The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.Adam and Eve also were "driven out" from the Garden of Eden, mere creatures. By effect of the baptism, Jesus is "driven out" into the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A Play with Mirrors: The Parable of the Sower
.Third peculiarity (the most important!)In the explanation of the parable (Mark 4:14-20) there is a change in interpreting the seed and the soil. At first the word is the seed and the hearers are the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Pseudepigraphic Paulines in the NT = Forgeries
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c2ad/9 ... ca6e6f.pdfThe author of this article contends that it wasn't acceptable to attribute letters falsely to an apostle but that, as we all know, some...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: 12 Reasons the Paulines are not Marcionite
Peter Kirby's list of 12 Reasons the Paulines are not MarcioniteMy objection to a such list(1) The Marcionite publication of Paul is not a clear and highly supportive brief for Marcionite...
View ArticleGeneral Religious Discussion • Re: Studying early Christian writings to...
Read the stuff about "Jesus Chrestos" in the Nag Hammadi LibraryStatistics: Posted by Leucius Charinus — Sat Jan 11, 2025 3:43 pm
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 compelling for...
Do you see 1 Thes 2 explicitly denying that the Jews won't eventually be redeemed one day?Yes. And I see you are too accommodating in your effort to fit this passage into Pauline theology. Earlier you...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • On the weight of the variants
The basic insight is therefore quite simple: If Mcn is older than Luke (that is the central claim), and if at the same time numerous Mcn readings appear as variants in the Luke manuscripts (that is...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Duke U. database on 4 Galilee synagogue excavations
fwdDuke University Galilee Database (DUG)Featuring four Synagogues of Upper Galilee: Meiron, Gush Halav, Khirbet Shema, and Nabrateinhttps://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam ... Fjo_Mgwvbw$The...
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