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by pakeha
Tue Jul 08, 2014 2:33 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
Replies: 887
Views: 601942

Re: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?

theomise wrote:pakeha - I think MacDonald is referring to that second passage (from Iliad 24) - viz., Hermes putting the guards to sleep.
Of course! What a fool I am!
by pakeha
Mon Jul 07, 2014 11:40 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
Replies: 887
Views: 601942

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,...
by pakeha
Mon Jul 07, 2014 1:59 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
Replies: 887
Views: 601942

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...
by pakeha
Mon Jul 07, 2014 1:15 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
Replies: 887
Views: 601942

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...
by pakeha
Sun Jul 06, 2014 3:28 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
Replies: 887
Views: 601942

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...
by pakeha
Sun Jul 06, 2014 2:48 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
Replies: 887
Views: 601942

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...
by pakeha
Sun Jul 06, 2014 2:32 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Real Bottom Line in the Mythicism Debate
Replies: 139
Views: 88011

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?
by pakeha
Sun Jul 06, 2014 2:18 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
Replies: 887
Views: 601942

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...
by pakeha
Sun Jul 06, 2014 1:48 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Real Bottom Line in the Mythicism Debate
Replies: 139
Views: 88011

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...
by pakeha
Sun Jul 06, 2014 1:36 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Does anyone have On the Historicity of Jesus yet?
Replies: 887
Views: 601942

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...