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- Thu May 16, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Proposition: There are Three Major Classes of Christian Literature
- Replies: 44
- Views: 12753
Re: Proposition: There are Three Major Classes of Christian Literature
LC previously wrote, Thu Oct 19, 2023 6:49 pm, in part: "...how are we supposed to start looking at the historical evidence? It looks like a mess. Unless you have some better ideas I'm just trying to tidy it up a little." The mess is the result of various theories mixing up sources from v...
- Thu May 16, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Using ChatGPT
- Replies: 164
- Views: 139634
ChatGPT on the Classes of Christian Literature
What are the commonly used classes or categories of Christian literature from antiquity? ChatGPT Christian literature from antiquity, broadly defined as writings from the first several centuries of the Christian era, can be categorized into several key classes. These classes reflect the diversity o...
- Mon May 13, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Rome and early Christianity
- Replies: 8
- Views: 405
Re: Rome and early Christianity
ROMAN PROVENANCE THEORIES Antiquity * "The Acts of Titus" * "Against the Christians" - The last pagan Emperor Julian (362 CE) Middle Ages to the Modern Era Refer to the contents of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum Modern E...
- Mon May 13, 2024 6:12 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Most Manuscripts are not Primary Sources
- Replies: 165
- Views: 303421
Re: Manuscripts of the "Fathers" are not Primary Sources (they are Secondary Sources)
So supposing we are trying to write a history of Christian origins for the first two centuries. What does the history of Christianity (the NT writings and the "Universal Church") in the early centuries look like if we stay only with the primary sources of evidence as advised in the above ...
- Mon May 13, 2024 6:02 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Using ChatGPT
- Replies: 164
- Views: 139634
ChatGPT on the definition of primary sources in classical and biblical historical methodology
I just spent almost a week thinking about and then writing a seven page essay entitled "Primary and Secondary Sources & the History of Christian Literature". If anyone is interested here is a link to it: https://www.academia.edu/119008034/Primary_and_Secondary_Sources_and_the_History_o...
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:59 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Wide ranging study on Christian forgery?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4465
Re: Wide ranging study on Christian forgery?
This represents both an exhibit and a collection of essays on forgery. It is very wide ranging and very interesting. It does include a number of Christian forgeries including the Donation of Constantine and the proliferation of Holy Relics from the later 4th century for over a thousand years Fake fo...
- Tue May 07, 2024 4:32 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Proposition: There are Three Major Classes of Christian Literature
- Replies: 44
- Views: 12753
Re: Proposition: There are Three Major Classes of Christian Literature
Fundamental Key Field in any Relational (Factual) Database for Christian Origins are the extant texts themselves Forget Jesus, Marcion, Tertullian, Eusebius, Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Epiphanius, Origen and the host of hypothetical historical identities involved in the received tradition of ...
- Sun May 05, 2024 5:41 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: might help explain why there are no copies today
- Replies: 3
- Views: 165
Re: might help explain why there are no copies today
also quoted here: https://preachersinstitute.com/2017/08/17/discourse-theotokos/ With over 20 years experience teaching, preaching, and guiding souls to Christ, Fr. John offers classes, workshops, seminars, and articles about Christian teaching, preaching and practice. https://preachersinstitute.co...
- Sun May 05, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 711
Re: Invention of Macrina the Younger?
4. The epitaph 120 by Gregory of Nazianzus The fourth and last Ancient writing about Macrina is an epitaph by Gregory of Nazianzus. It suggests that Macrina had been hidden and unknown before VSM made her famous. The epitaph reads as follows: “ Me, the dust, I hold the radiant virgin, if you hear a...
- Fri May 03, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Niels Lemche, "272 BCE – A Terminus a Quo"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 553
Re: Niels Lemche, "272 BCE – A Terminus a Quo"
Niels P. Lemche (U. Copenhagen) wrote an essay, April, 2024 at https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/272-bce-terminus-quo I was not persuaded. Others? I am persuaded that Lemche and Gmirkin and others have developed sound cases for a Hellenistic era origin for the Hebrew writings. You were asked...