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Secret Alias wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 10, 2019 4:03 pm

I think I found my Latin translator.

Link?

If no one ever saw the Marcionite texts, did such ever truly exist?

Broken link for "found by Gandy and Freke" in the post above.

Megatron

This thread intrigues me greatly. It harkens back to what might be my first (and only substantive, if one can call it that) thread initiated within this forum, back in 2015. In it I eventually revealed my thought that Paul himself was once thought of as a god in his own right and that Christ was an ...

Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 05, 2019 6:12 am

Am I the only one who thinks that Metatron sounds like the name of a Saturday morning cartoon robot or some such?

No! The first time I heard it, I thought the exact same thing.

Evan Powell has a very good Ur-John. Read everything in bold print and skip everything that is underlined.

http://www.historical-jesus.com/ur-john-text.html

Giuseppe wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 24, 2019 5:20 am

Excuse me, but I don't know what you mean by the expression "presto-change-o-switch" .

Magical switch from Matthew to proto-Mark.

I think you are onto something with regard to interpolations here!

But if the interpolations are drawn from Matthew (as indicated by your first quote), how does the presto-change-o switch to a proto-Mark happen?

The phrase you highlighted and colorized seems to me to be a Christian interpolation. But I lean toward the earliest layer of Revelation potentially being pre-Christianity.