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Here is an example: Dwight J. Bingham Irenaeus' Use of Matthew's Gospel in Adversus Haereses Peeters (1997) What does appear to be attaining a high level of certainty, however, is the Latin translation of Irenaeus as an excellent representation of his Greek text. If I claim that x is “an excellent r...

Perhaps you'd just like the examples from this thread. Evidence-based criticism: theomise wrote:I haven't read this whole discussion yet, but would you regard early-dated papyri of Irenaeus' Adversus Haereses as evidence against your thesis? Thanks for this, I confess to having not read the whole t...

... the thumb is now an "error" and "oversight"??????? No, I explicitly wrote the contrary, that it was most probably the result of inattention, not an attempt to deliberately deceive, by obscuring the fact that "the Nazarene" isn't found in the original Greek text. Wh...

Completely and undeniably relevant, in this regard, is the text of the Codex Sinaiticus at Mark 16:6. I am in agreement with you here. Then, I wonder, though, what about the relevancy of the non-existence of text: τὸν Ναζαρηνὸν , in that same text? Does its absence merit discussion? Does the insert...

Thank you, Peter, for posting that image Unfortunately, your thumb is concealing an interesting portion of the text, something I had never observed before, and probably completely off topic (as usual?) Here is the Greek, from the Codex, including the important part you wish to signal, iesoun, and th...

Thank you, Peter, for the link to James Snapp's interesting article. Fascinating stuff.. two small, (microscopic) points of contention: 1. In Hebrew, this name consists of four Hebrew letters, and for this reason is known as the Sacred Tetragrammaton. In some of the Dead Sea Scrolls, when the Sacred...

The original word is Akkadian rab , meaning chief or overseer. The latest known text in cuneiform Babylonian is an astronomical text dated to 75 AD, according to Lesley Adkins It is interesting, perhaps, to note that in Middle Persian, “rad” = “master” . Single phoneme substitution. Looks like a wi...

And does it really take Bayes to lay all the assumptions bare? Interesting post. Well written. Informative, and stimulating. Had to look up Bayes. Can't write that I understand it. "work in progress", "didn't do all that well in 6th grade math", etc, you know all the excuses.......

I don't really have a dog in this fight (nor did I have any idea, until right now, that there was a fight to have a dog in here). Thank you Peter. Somehow I managed to derail this lovely thread, and for that I apologize. The Mithraeum is lovely and deserves a more thoughtful response. I am grateful...

Not sure what you were ranting about. Apologies, didn't mean to insult you, was instead attempting to convey sympathy for undergoing a painful procedure. In brief, I seek evidence for the urban legend that the earliest Christians met at Jewish synagogues. The revised version of E. Schuerer's (my um...