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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:38 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
- Replies: 75
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Re: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
I found your 2021 post describing your beliefs about Philo, and the influence of Hermetic literature on him: https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=123894#p123894 I'll look it over, as you cited numerous source and secondary literature. FWIW, and this is before I have had a chance to read y...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 589
Re: The Catamites of Tiberius?
I shall go and open my veins in a hot bath ... Or not. I will say that I do not buy into the mystical beliefs projected by romantic moderns, scholars or not, into Philo's work. Show me such an overarching symbolic understanding of human psychology in an Authority on Philo, such as Runia. I am not ta...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:09 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Who's death Jos. blamed for city's destruction
- Replies: 1
- Views: 80
Who's death Jos. blamed for city's destruction
It was not "James the just." It was Ananus, the former HP, who was the highest ranking aristocratic priest in charge of civil government at this time (about 66 CE). Since it came up in another thread, I would propose this segment of text (which contains a doublet even), and the speech that...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:10 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: John the Baptist, redivivus of a 2015 article
- Replies: 132
- Views: 6632
Re: John the Baptist, redivivus of a 2015 article
Peter Kirby—I have not followed all the discussions on the Ant 20 James passage but I wonder if the following explanation could be a possibility on the table. Assume Hegesippus draws from Papias on the real tradition of James the Just’s death actually occurring during the Revolt. ... Side comment t...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:36 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 589
Re: The Catamites of Tiberius?
What about Ant 18, 289+? [289] But king Agrippa, who now lived at Rome, was more and more in the favor of Caius; and when he had once made him a supper, and was careful to exceed all others, both in expenses and in such preparations as might contribute most to his pleasure; nay, it [Agrippa's abilit...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:17 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: How should the “rollercoaster” phrase in Romans 10:6-8 be understood?
- Replies: 7
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Re: How should the “rollercoaster” phrase in Romans 10:6-8 be understood?
Unfortunately I cannot help with the ascent and descent of Jesus as christ-savior. This particular section you cited is part of materials I have attributed to a later editor to an original letter of Paul, who added his own commentary. The original Paul did not know anything about Jesus, but relied o...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:17 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 589
Re: The Catamites of Tiberius?
I was referring to "Alexander the Alabarch" of Alexandria, which I had always thought to be a representative for the Judeans of the city. The Wikipedia entry for him says that his was a custom's position, and he was very wealthy. He apparently had connections in common with Hasmonean as we...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 589
Re: The Catamites of Tiberius?
Hmmm, It was Herod Agrippa who was a child "hostage" in Rome. Most if not all of Herod's children were shipped to Rome for their "education" but they were also pawns to be used if Herod was killed. These all lived quite different lives from one another, as temperament and ability...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 589
Re: The Catamites of Tiberius?
OOOOhhhh-Kay ... Are you saying that Philo's Therapeutae were running an escort service for pedophiles and hebephiles? Seriously? A while back I offered my amateurish literary analysis and segregated the narrative between Philo's personal(?) notebook entries while attending their meetings, hearing t...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:55 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Who translated The Diatessaron of Tatian into English?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 170
Re: Who translated The Diatessaron of Tatian into English?
Early Christian Writings has Roberts-Donaldson: https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/diatessaron.html Wikisource has Hope W. Hogg: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IX/The_Diatessaron_of_Tatian The original Ante Nicene Christian Library (ANCL), which stretched about 24 vol...