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allegoria, At one time there was an Ethiopic NT online with an English translation, but not sure if it is still up. Ethiopic does have a knack for saying simple things with quite complex wordplay. It may well differ. In the Greek, 3 against 2 and 2 against three, perhaps that just seemed odd enough ...

Hi Greg, Sorry to take so long to respond, am going through some work problems. Anyways, no I have not "published" anything on the subject of Hegesippus' "James the Just" other than posts here and apparently on FRDB that preceded it. On these lists I had told the tale of looking ...

The greatest enemies are the internal enemies in your own camp. The external enemy is the reason for our ennoblement and glory. The enemy within is the cause of our shame. Carrier probably does not know that he is offering and developing "communist mythicism", which was the official histo...

Thank you, Adam. As to the suggestion that MS intended to publish that 1958 "Manufactured" document, which was never published in that form till his death, nor now, according to its Preface, it was to prevent others from publishing. Now you're actually getting somewhere. Why would he have...

And "Everytime you hear a bell ring, an angel is getting its wings." There are a passage or two in the Clementine Homilies where "Peter" explains how his crowd can accurately identify corrupting additions, which "Simon" had used in the arguments put into his mouth. It w...

There is a relation to the NT: Matthew 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias , whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Interesting post. Btw, I saw this on Wikipedia : The Gospel...

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...

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...

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...

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...