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Do you realise that that link is to an online version of Cureton's ' The Antient (sic) Syriac Version of the Epistles of Saint Ignatius ' published in MDCCXLV [1745(?)]. Yes - I do (1845). The Cureton Gospels I refer to are much more modern: 1864. No (as far as I can tell).* They are free of them (...

Do you have a feel for if the shorter Syriac leters of Ignatius refer to the Pauline Epistles in a way that is above and beyond what could be a reference to Paul-in-Acts? Have a read: https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Antient_Syriac_Version_of_the_Epistl/3UEYAAAAYAAJ?hl=en Thank-you, but ...

Pauls "7 authentic" are (to my reading) real letters. I disagree and so does the whole Tubingen school: that's why we threw them out of the Ebionaen Canon . He introduces himself, says his sources, ends with greetings, writes passionate arguments. Most of rest of NT is either anonymous or...

Not necessarily so. 1) Reading and writing are different skills. I can read Greek, I can't compose text in it. 2) If you define literacy as reading-and-writing, if you assume (generously) a literacy rate of 10% among adult males in C1/C2 Palestine, in a largely bilingual society there will not nece...

To my untrained eye, the Syriac versions seem to be summaries of sections of the shorter Greek recension. I am not afraid of being shown the error of my ways, though. Do you have a feel for if the shorter Syriac leters of Ignatius refer to the Pauline Epistles in a way that is above and beyond what...

lclapshaw wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:05 pm But, are they actually letters? They seem to be artificial constructs to me.

I strongly agree - they seem to be artificial constructs to me.

I don't know if it answers your question but there are lots of reasons to think the gospels were originally written in Aramaic.

Some of the key ones of the KJV Howlers are of Jesus speaking in Matthew, so I would take that to mean Jesus spoke Aramaic in the Gospels.

The Short Recension of Three Letters - discovered and championed by Cureton - the Epistles to Polycarp, to the Ephesians and to the Romans - were almost certainly the first, original letters of Ignatius. They do not include references to Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection , the Eucharist , or to C...

Unloading Paul gives us a lot of room to see Christianity in a new light, without the Crowleyism of the Faulines. And I don't find the Paul-addled historians of much use. I'm more interested in looking into the Clementine Recognitions as apocrypha to see if they shed light on this, and examine &quo...

The importance here is that therefore James belongs in the Early Christian Ebionaen Canon. The point being made is about creating a reading list for a modern canon with supposedly ancient origins. I'm not sure of what supposedly ancient origins material you are referring to; in this thread we are d...