Christian Texts and History • The Demonstrably Non-Sexual Meaning of...
And even the people themselves stood ready with instruments of punishment, and in their midst were the victorious Martyrs—indeed, Apostles—being brought forward to be judged, becoming a spectacle to...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Why Matthew postdates *Ev
Essentially for three principal arguments:the birth story is anti-Marcionite;traces of rivalry between Jesus and John the Baptist are probably inherited by *Ev;Matthew is so strongly insistent on...
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Christian Texts and History • Jesus the Goat of God
Hi guys, don't know if this has been raised before. The talk is mainly on gospel priority and historicity. I find this interesting...In Matt 27:15-26 Jesus has a doppelganger Jesus Barabbas. In older...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Closest Example I Find of Something Like...
It's not exact but it's not entirely dissimilar either:Pay close attention to the exact wording of the Scriptures. It does not say, ‘His fullness,’ but ‘From his fullness we have all received.’ For...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Paul's Letters: Real History or Roman Fiction?
iframe A quote en passant:in a nutshell what I would take away is these [the letters] are polished and touched up and at least good reason to doubt what you're reading in your New Testament is what...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Examples of Side By Side Nominative Plural and...
Simeon the Stylite, Epistles:“For if you too were willing, you would become one of his members, and thus all the members of each one of us would become members of Christ—and Christ would become a...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Where and why did Mark expand *Ev? (...and the...
In another thread I had explained what are the reasons for Mark shortening *Ev.Now I mean to explain why Mark expanded *Ev on some points.The list of additions is the following:1) the baptism in the...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Anti-petrinism based on Galatians or on rock as...
If the anti-petrinism in a gospel is implied by the reading of Galatians...(You don't reject the card Peter unless you have already with you the card Paul)...then the anti-petrinism in Mark is a clear...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • What Roger Parvus said about the Justin's...
Yes, we all know that Roger Parvus has changed idea in whiletime, with the result that I don't know now what he thinks today about the relation Justin/Paul. And yet read what Roger Parvus wrote when...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Johannes Scholten against A. D. Loman makes me...
Scholten (denier only of the authenticity of Galatians, therefore not a radical critic) helps me to understand better what Loman thought about the relation between Justin and Paul:That Justin, in his...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Was Justin himself the first to catholicize Paul?
It is really unfortunate that this article:Hermann RASCHKE, Der Römerbrief des Marcion nach Epiphanius (Schriften der Bremer Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft I,8), Bremen 1926...is lost forever, since...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Where and why did Mark shorten *Ev?
I use the term 'shorten' but I am not sure that Mark was shorter than *Ev.The list of the things in *Ev removed by Mark is the following:the reference to 15° year of Tiberiusthe Beatitudesthe sinful...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Who is embarrassed by a "sword"? Only...
Luke 12:51. Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division*Ev 12:51. Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but a swordMatthew 10:34:Do not think that...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Genesis of the Jewish Concept of Martyrdom
Shepkaru, Shmuel, 'To Die For: The Evolution of Early Jewish Martyrdom', in Margo Kitts (ed.), Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation: Religious Perspectives on Suicide (New York; Oxford...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Mark and Marcion Have the Same Value in Syriac
Mark in Syriac: ܡܪܩܘܣ (Marqos)ܡ (Mem) = 40ܪ (Resh) = 200ܩ (Qoph) = 100ܘ (Waw) = 6ܣ (Samekh) = 60Total = 40 + 200 + 100 + 6 + 60 = 406Marcion in Syriac: ܡܪܩܝܘܢ (Marqiyon)ܡ (Mem) = 40ܪ (Resh) = 200ܩ...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Why do you introduce other gospels? A feature...
I see a common feature in the examples given by Ken and Kunigunde as presumed confutation of the *Ev's priority over Luke:the use of Markan priority over both *Ev and Luke in order to prove that Luke...
View ArticleGospel of Mark Studies • Does GMark Parallel Peter With Moses and James/John...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56hqrlQxMMIDoes GMark parallel Peter With Moses and James/John with Elijah/Elisha?JosephStatistics: Posted by JoeWallack — Wed Apr 30, 2025 9:47 am — Replies 0 — Views 3
View ArticleGospel of Mark Studies • Who were Simon of Cyrene, Alexander and Rufus?...
If I could ask for some research questions:- and who are Alexander and Rufus?I. Intro1) Think about it!Have you never wondered who Simon of Cyrene and his sons Alexander and Rufus were? Have you never...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Anti-marcionite statements in Marcion's Gospel
From another thread, I'd like to highlight a quote from the writings of Daniel A. Smith, 'The Sayings Gospel Q in Marcion's Edition of Luke', ETL 94/3 (2018) 481-503 p. 482-423... on the traditional...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The sequencing Nazareth/Capharnaum speaks more...
(3) I'm guessing this refers to the sequencing of Capernaum and Nazareth. I have previously discussed this issue on this forum and don't intend to repeat it here. I think it may be the best argument...
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