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by Charles Wilson
Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:33 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Was Paul Marcion (in part, at least)?
Replies: 27
Views: 388

Re: Was Paul Marcion (in part, at least)?

YES!!! No one, as far as I know, has mapped out the various Paths followed by Vespasian and especially Antonius Primus and Mucianus, to see if the Time Lines are even possible. "Hastily fitting out a fleet of Liburnian ships he pursued Anicetus..." Oh, RILLY!!! Mucianus went to the local B...
by Charles Wilson
Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:47 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Was Paul Marcion (in part, at least)?
Replies: 27
Views: 388

Re: Was Paul Marcion (in part, at least)?

MrMacSon -- A good suggestion. Some time ago, I speculated on something like this awhile back: Tacitus, Histories, Book 3: "All other nations were equally restless. A sudden outbreak had been excited in Pontus by a barbarian slave, who had before commanded the royal fleet. This was Anicetus, a ...
by Charles Wilson
Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:18 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: HISTORY AND THE GOSPEL JESUS
Replies: 11
Views: 327

Re: HISTORY AND THE GOSPEL JESUS

And just to keep history in mind in view of the OP ... Alexander Jannaeus did not bring down the Hasmonean dynasty.... That tragedy fell to Hyrancus and Antigonus. Keep Posting on this, maryhelena. Mebbe someday, someone here will realize that there was a History in the area before...before... JESU...
by Charles Wilson
Sun Mar 31, 2024 5:15 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Do any Church Fathers state or imply that Jesus spoke Aramaic during his ministry (ie in gospel)?
Replies: 19
Views: 504

Re: Do any Church Fathers state or imply that Jesus spoke Aramaic during his ministry (ie in gospel)?

Pettinato, Archives of Ebla , p. 277: "Gen. 10:8-1 1 reports that the first warrior on earth was named Nimrod. For this name no satisfactory explanation has been found, but current opinion tends to favor a Mesopotamian origin of the personal name. The study of the patterns of Eblaite and Ugarit...
by Charles Wilson
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:22 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: History trumps Theology
Replies: 69
Views: 1277

Re: History trumps Theology

Note: I always look for little Clues in the Text and there is one here: Luke 13: 16 (RSV, emph. added.): [16] And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" So we have "...a daughter of Abraham" paired...
by Charles Wilson
Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:26 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: History trumps Theology
Replies: 69
Views: 1277

Re: History trumps Theology

I left one out. Luke 13: 11 - 16 (RSV): [11] And there was a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. [12] And when Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity." [13] An...
by Charles Wilson
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:55 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: History trumps Theology
Replies: 69
Views: 1277

Re: History trumps Theology

To declare that gospel writers were secretly referring to the death (by which means is uncertain) of the last Hasmonean claimant, without evidence, is mere unsupported opinion, not history research. From a False Premise, anything follows. You know that SG. So it is here. There is plenty of Evidence...
by Charles Wilson
Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:52 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: History trumps Theology
Replies: 69
Views: 1277

Re: History trumps Theology

Peter Kirby wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:18 am If there's an intellectual graveyard, then there is also a history of it, and all theology is also part of history.
So I invite maryhelena to sing a Duet with me entitled, "Who were the Hasmoneans?"

CW
by Charles Wilson
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:48 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: History trumps Theology
Replies: 69
Views: 1277

Re: Any pre-325 CE writings where Jesus' historicity was doubted?

The core of the gospel Jesus story. - a Roman execution of a King of the Jews - the fundamental historical Christian claim... a claim that will symbolically be played out in some churches tomorrow, by thousands of believers in the historicity of the gospel Jesus figure.... *** A sacrifice of a huma...
by Charles Wilson
Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Mark.How Much Ironic Contrast,Transfer&Reversal Did He kraM?
Replies: 94
Views: 166614

Re: Mark.How Much Ironic Contrast,Transfer&Reversal Did He kraM?

JoeWallack wrote ( and neatly boxed): And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her. AND I'll never forget good ol what'sherface. The missing name Marker where there really should be one. Ahhh, but I believe we do know he...