Of course! What a fool I am!theomise wrote:pakeha - I think MacDonald is referring to that second passage (from Iliad 24) - viz., Hermes putting the guards to sleep.
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- Tue Jul 08, 2014 2:33 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
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Re: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
- Mon Jul 07, 2014 11:40 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
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Re: Carrier on Acts as Historical Fiction, part1
Gday, [ . . . ] Peter's escape from prison is constructed from Priam's escape from Achilles.9[ . . . ] The tiniest nit-pick in an admirable work, one which will be shortly on my bookshelf. I think the incident is Paris' escape from Menelaus, but I could be wrong, not for the first time. Once again,...
- Mon Jul 07, 2014 1:59 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
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Re: Carrier on Acts as Historical Fiction, part1
[ . . . ] Peter's escape from prison is constructed from Priam's escape from Achilles.9[ . . . ] The tiniest nit-pick in an admirable work, one which will be shortly on my bookshelf. I think the incident is Paris' escape from Menelaus, but I could be wrong, not for the first time. Once again, kudos...
- Mon Jul 07, 2014 1:15 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
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Re: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
Is this a sign my Sunday reading should include Tertullian? I think so. Might pay to try to determine to what extent writings attributed to Tertullian are considered authentic ... Thanks for the heads-up. Apparently 31 of his surviving works are considered authentic, so I think I have weeks of read...
- Sun Jul 06, 2014 3:28 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
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Re: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
Curiously enough, I leaned recently that Theophilus of Antioch, one of our earlier Christian writers, claimed the word Christian had an entirely different meaning: And about your laughing at me and calling me Christian, you know not what you are saying. First, because that which is anointed is swee...
- Sun Jul 06, 2014 2:48 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
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Re: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
Curiously enough, I leaned recently that Theophilus of Antioch, one of our earlier Christian writers, claimed the word Christian had an entirely different meaning: And about your laughing at me and calling me Christian, you know not what you are saying. First, because that which is anointed is swee...
- Sun Jul 06, 2014 2:32 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Real Bottom Line in the Mythicism Debate
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Re: The Real Bottom Line in the Mythicism Debate
Considerable, indeed. I have the impression scholars will be dissecting those texts for generations to come. And who knows what is still waiting to be discovered?
- Sun Jul 06, 2014 2:18 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
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Re: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
[ . . . ]Tacitus's account is information that begs questions: where did he get the information from? what does it mean? Carrier's speculation he got it from Pliny the Younger seems spurious; disingenuous, even. [ . . . ] Could you explain why you have this impression? Mine is quite different and t...
- Sun Jul 06, 2014 1:48 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Real Bottom Line in the Mythicism Debate
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Re: The Real Bottom Line in the Mythicism Debate
[ . . . ]The Dutch radicals and their ideas have but one inconvenience- they published long before the latest archeological findings . Please elaborate. No worries. The Dutch Radicals wrote long before the discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi texts. How would those texts have inf...
- Sun Jul 06, 2014 1:36 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
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Re: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
[ . . . ]Tacitus's account is information that begs questions: where did he get the information from? what does it mean? Carrier's speculation he got it from Pliny the Younger seems spurious; disingenuous, even. [ . . . ] Could you explain why you have this impression? Mine is quite different and t...