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by RandyHelzerman
Tue May 14, 2024 8:44 am
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
Replies: 160
Views: 28869

Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?

Peter Kirby wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 7:38 am The 3 images don't have any difference that should lead someone to a different identification of the character in the case of the different images.
Can you expatiate?
by RandyHelzerman
Tue May 14, 2024 7:18 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Excerpts from Volkmar, 'The Religion of Jesus,' 1857
Replies: 4
Views: 114

Re: Excerpts from Volkmar, 'The Religion of Jesus,' 1857

Both Jesus and Paul were Jews. I'm with Jason BeDuhn on this one....neither Jesus nor Paul was inventing a new religion, because the very concept of a religion--as being a system of worship and morality which is distinct from your ethnicity--wasn't invented until Mani. Here's a video of him elaborat...
by RandyHelzerman
Tue May 14, 2024 7:13 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The refusal of a sign as a Judaizing passage found in *Ev
Replies: 6
Views: 127

Re: The refusal of a sign as a Judaizing passage found in *Ev

I'm kinda mystified here at what you are trying to prove, and how you are trying to prove it.....I mean, I actually believe in Ev priority over Luke, but don't find these little snippets very convincing ;-) :-( Why not? Well, say its even true that asking for the sign was a very Jewish thang.....was...
by RandyHelzerman
Tue May 14, 2024 5:15 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The refusal of a sign as a Judaizing passage found in *Ev
Replies: 6
Views: 127

Re: The refusal of a sign as a Judaizing passage found in *Ev

even in that case, *Ev was condemned to destruction because its only sin was the association with the marcionite interpretation . [/quote] Weeellll.....that and the Marcionites discouraged making lots of marcionite babies. Same fate of an ancient indoeuropean solar symbol. *chukle* how much better ...
by RandyHelzerman
Tue May 14, 2024 5:10 am
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
Replies: 160
Views: 28869

Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?

And I am not convinced that image quality is a significant factor for the separate issue of the line 2 character. Are you saying we can't even achieve consensus about why we can't achieve consensus? :-) If it's not image quality, what is it? One factor on this separate issue is that there is a high...
by RandyHelzerman
Mon May 13, 2024 12:54 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The refusal of a sign as a Judaizing passage found in *Ev
Replies: 6
Views: 127

Re: The refusal of a sign as a Judaizing passage found in *Ev

This is the problem with the gospels. Even *Ev is a receptacle of different theologies, therefore Marcion was not so free from partial compromises with the ideology of the his own opponents. Well, assuming that he wrote the Evangelion. Alternately, he just received a text, like virtually everybody ...
by RandyHelzerman
Mon May 13, 2024 11:08 am
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
Replies: 160
Views: 28869

Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?

I think, for someone, the I.2 character could look prima facie as -αι. Do you guys have some better digitizations that we don't? Because the very fact that we cannot reach consensus on these issues proves to me that the photographs we've seen so far are too noisy to be of much use. What do you see ...
by RandyHelzerman
Sun May 12, 2024 1:03 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: What do we know about how early Christians construed “self-talk”, “inner speech”, “talking to oneself”?
Replies: 8
Views: 212

Re: What do we know about how early Christians construed “self-talk”, “inner speech”, “talking to oneself”?

Guys, I never said this was the first time in recorded history that anybody ever read something without taking aloud. But it is undeniable that it was the exception and not the rule until the late Middle Ages. This book connects the custom of putting a space between words with the rise of silent rea...
by RandyHelzerman
Sat May 11, 2024 10:00 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: What do we know about how early Christians construed “self-talk”, “inner speech”, “talking to oneself”?
Replies: 8
Views: 212

Re: What do we know about how early Christians construed “self-talk”, “inner speech”, “talking to oneself”?

Some who call Augustine the first psychologist, iirc, add, suggest, that ancient people earlier than him typically had less inner dialogue than he did. Are you a fan of Julian Jaynes? :-) Augustine remarks at how amazed he was that Ambrose didn't read texts aloud: Now, as {Ambrose] read, his eyes g...
by RandyHelzerman
Sat May 11, 2024 8:06 am
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
Replies: 160
Views: 28869

Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?

Tselikas[/url] also saw an iota in I.2 ἐπιστοµίσας / ἐπιστοµίσαι: This is why I'm carping about the picture quality so much. If we zoom in on that figure: zoomed.png Do you think Tselikas saw little blue rectangles everywhere??? If we zoom way in: way_zoomed.png We see a bunch of blue rectangles th...