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- Fri May 17, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Possible Hebraisms in Hegesippus
- Replies: 2
- Views: 66
Re: Possible Hebraisms in Hegesippus
Whether there are possible Hebraisms in Hegesippus is an interesting question. For now I comment merely on one small portion of the OP. In "Ἐσσαῖοι (Essenes): Reflects Hebrew אִסִּיִּים (Isiyim)....." Isiyim is only a relatively modern Hebrew spelling of Essenes. It is, imo, as ancient his...
- Tue May 14, 2024 2:53 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Rome and early Christianity
- Replies: 8
- Views: 415
Re: Rome and early Christianity
From the OP:
"I won't attempt a summary version of those various [Rome] proposals because they do not, even remotely, agree with one another."
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Attributed to, translated from, Ernest Renan:
Christianity is an "Essenism which succeeded on a broad scale."
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"I won't attempt a summary version of those various [Rome] proposals because they do not, even remotely, agree with one another."
or
Attributed to, translated from, Ernest Renan:
Christianity is an "Essenism which succeeded on a broad scale."
or....
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:07 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Rome and early Christianity
- Replies: 8
- Views: 415
Re: Rome and early Christianity
Rome was good at building armies, roads, aqueducts, harbors.
Some other things, not so much.
Some other things, not so much.
- Mon May 13, 2024 4:51 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2495
Re: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
I considered other options, Joe.
- Sat May 11, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What do we know about how early Christians construed “self-talk”, “inner speech”, “talking to oneself”?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 242
Re: What do we know about how early Christians construed “self-talk”, “inner speech”, “talking to oneself”?
Some say Ambrose was not the first nor unusual to read silently. And maybe that he did so this time merely to prevent other hearers.
In either case, Augustine, from another place, was impressed.
In either case, Augustine, from another place, was impressed.
- Sat May 11, 2024 5:55 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What do we know about how early Christians construed “self-talk”, “inner speech”, “talking to oneself”?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 242
Re: What do we know about how early Christians construed “self-talk”, “inner speech”, “talking to oneself”?
Some who call Augustine the first psychologist, iirc, add, suggest, that ancient people earlier than him typically had less inner dialogue than he did.
- Fri May 10, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Rome and early Christianity
- Replies: 8
- Views: 415
Rome and early Christianity
Various posts here propose that Rome invented Christianity. I won't attempt a summary version of those various proposals because they do not, even remotely, agree with one another. Roman religion, early on, seems largely a warmed-over Greek religion, with new names. (Maybe with Etruscan and other in...
- Fri May 10, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Last nail on the Testimonium Flavianum. Again.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 299
Re: Last nail on the Testimonium Flavianum. Again.
Last nail...Again? No more "last nails" to come?
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:15 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2495
Re: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
The Smith-Scholem Correspondence book [published in 2008] is interesting, concerning Mark, concerning Sabbatai Sevi, and concerning paleography. Smith p. 23 wrote to Scholem that he (Smith) "shall have in any case to begin learning something about palaeography." Letter date: January, 6, 19...
- Fri May 10, 2024 6:49 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What do we know about how early Christians construed “self-talk”, “inner speech”, “talking to oneself”?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 242
Re: What do we know about how early Christians construed “self-talk”, “inner speech”, “talking to oneself”?
fwiw, Augustine, author of Confessions, is sometimes considered to be the first western psychologist.