Christian Texts and History • Re: Schmidt on the Testimonium Flavianum
Two different statements, above, in this thread, I find, if I may say so, unhelpful."His work here is too trashy to cite. It's untrustworthy.""Isn't it obvious that Schmidt should be reading us and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: On the weight of the variants
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 undisputed), then these variants have a pre-New...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Paul is a composite of Philo and Marcus...
It always bothers me. People read Josephus like he literally preserves the history of Judaism in the Levant. Fucking morons. Really. My son has to deal with having a girlfriend. I told him today....
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: implications of the Mark's identity naked...
Even the question of the identity of the god who has to be adored as supreme god vanishes in the background, when compared to this Mark's obsession in denigrating the 12 and Peter.Statistics: Posted...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Who were heretics who hated the 12 and...
It seems that for you the fact that "the Apostle John wrote his gospel specifically to refute the teachings of Cerinthus" would represent a possible clue supporting my view that Mark "hated the 12"...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Paul's text in the context of the Marcionites
I am starting this thread in an attempt to better frame the question of the Pauline writings with respect to the Marcionites. Or perhaps more accurately to examine the text at the early time than our...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: is the letter to florinus authentic
A simikar question was posed on this forum a year ago, viewtopic.php?t=11392. It was unanswered.Statistics: Posted by MrMacSon — Tue Jan 14, 2025 11:51 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Paul's text in the context of the Marcionites
The Marcionite ten-letter Pauline Corpus was ordered as follows:Galatians, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Romans, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, Laodiceans (Ephesians), Colossians, Philippians,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Does your interpretation of probability...
Someone made an annotated list of contexts where we perceive chance:https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/R ... d/100.htmlImplicit in the list is that "we" usually think like Bayesians (even if the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Super Gospel
The super gospel. http://sweetgospelharmony.com/syro-latin2.pdfStatistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Wed Jan 15, 2025 7:45 am
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Implications of the equation: Abomination of...
Thanks to Ken Olson for this quote by Ernst Haenchen, Der Weg Jesu:Another example of the same thing is the way in which Rev. 13,17 ff.the name of the“ beast” is only given as a numerical value - to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Answering to a Stuart's question...
Since I don't like to dirty his thread with my posts, I answer here to:The question we will look at is does it represent Marcionite thought, or does it represent something else?I concede willingly...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Implications of the equation: Abomination...
So, there are no doubts: the "abomination of desolation" in Mark 13 is Hadrian.Perhaps ... But it could be that the phrase/term, "abomination of desolation," meant different things to different...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Using ChatGPT
Reminder:Best practice for using LLM output on the forum include:(1) Reading and curating those parts of the output that you can verify or be persuaded to believe, discarding those parts of the output...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Mark, Greek Philosophy, and Secret Tradition
A certain Warren Smith brings my attention to this quote in Plato’s Theaetetus:“In the name of the Graces, what an almighty wise man Protagoras must have been! He spoke these things in a parable to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Is 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 compelling for...
The fact that this passage which specifically blames the death of Jesus on the Jews - which Paul says nowhere else, nor hints at - is a surefire indicator of its post-Pauline nature. Paul does not...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Evidence that during the lifetime of Justin...
Haenchen says alsoThe Book of Revelation can give us a certain clue. It says in 13:12 that the “second beast” causes the inhabitants of the earth to make an image of the (first) beast, “and it was...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Does your interpretation of probability...
Thanks, Paul the Uncertain. I appreciate your background in describing different approaches as different ways of managing uncertainty. It is a perspective that seems to me to highlight the fact that...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Compressed chronologies of Marcion fans
The presence of all the evangelists in the same place (Rome), their knowing one the other, exposed all them to public knowledge. Not coincidentially, it is only by then that Tacitus came to know about...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: A Play with Mirrors: The Parable of the Sower
3 “Listen!Behold, the one sowing went out to sow. 4 And it came to pass as he sowed, some fell along the road, and the birds came and devoured it. 5 And other fell upon the rocky place where it had...
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