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- Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:56 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A strange anomaly in Mark 14:41
- Replies: 31
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Re: A strange anomaly in Mark 14:41 - Another Example
Josephus, War... , 6, 1, 7: "Now two days afterward twelve of those men that were on the forefront, and kept watch upon the banks, got together, and called to them the standard-bearer of the fifth legion, and two others of a troop of horsemen, and one trumpeter; these went without noise, about the ...
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 2:46 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A strange anomaly in Mark 14:41
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5934
Re: A strange anomaly in Mark 14:41 - Another Example
Josephus, War... , 6, 1, 7: "Now two days afterward twelve of those men that were on the forefront, and kept watch upon the banks, got together, and called to them the standard-bearer of the fifth legion, and two others of a troop of horsemen, and one trumpeter; these went without noise, about the n...
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:41 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A strange anomaly in Mark 14:41
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5934
Re: A strange anomaly in Mark 14:41
The Jewish Organization of Troops had THREE Watches at night. 1. Lamentations 2: 19 (RSV): [19] Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! 2. Judges 7: 19 (RSV): [19] So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle ...
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:29 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A strange anomaly in Mark 14:41
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5934
Re: A strange anomaly in Mark 14:41
Mark 15: 40 - 41 (RSV): [40] And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they did not know what to answer him. [41] And he came the third time, and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come; the Son of man is betray...
- Mon Feb 22, 2021 6:15 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did Papias exist?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 12021
Re: Did Papias exist?
All of this, however, begs the question as to what "The Proper Order" might mean. We are invited to accept a "Chronological" Definition here. Does this necessarily follow? "Cleansing the Temple" occurs late in the Synoptics yet early in John. What is the "Proper Order" for this? Examples multiply, e...
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:31 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did Papias exist?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 12021
Re: Did Papias exist?
Perhaps, then, "Papias" serves a simple purpose: To the Argument that the Gospels cannot be True because the order of the stories is so jumbled, there appears a "Papias" who was supposed to be within a generation of the original disciples. He could state with authority that the stories were remember...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 4:56 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: dating the birth stories?
- Replies: 138
- Views: 2209
Re: dating the birth stories?
I have the Matthean Genealogy as being taken from the Records of Josephus. Nicholas of Damascus concocted a phony Genealogy for Herod's father Antipater that would have allowed Herod to become High Priest. The Key is that Herod's forebears came through the Babylonian Exile. Matthew has "Shealtiel" c...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:27 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Any evidence of a source text for Acts?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 99
Re: Any evidence of a source text for Acts?
Tacitus. Suetonius. Josephus. Follow the 12th Legion and Mucianus. Syrtis. Tacitus, Histories Book 3: "...A sudden outbreak had been excited in Pontus by a barbarian slave, who had before commanded the royal fleet. This was Anicetus, a freedman of Polemon, once a very powerful personage, who, when t...
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:50 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Late dating of Mark: How far would you go? And what are your arguments?
- Replies: 89
- Views: 41152
Re: Late dating of Mark: How far would you go? And what are your arguments?
I don't know exactly when the Gospel of Mark was written, but I know that Mark 13 wasn't a real prophecy nor an attempt at a real prophecy. So what was it? What was the point of putting so many concrete predictions into what was not supposed to be a prediction? It was a story of Jannaeus losing to ...
- Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:06 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why the blind of Bethsaida had not go back to Bethsaida
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1687
Re: Why the blind of Bethsaida had not go back to Bethsaida
'N Therefore:
"Bethsaida" => "Bezetha"
"Bethsaida" => "Bezetha"