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by davidmartin
Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:51 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
Replies: 450
Views: 13725

Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος

Frankenberg (1937) suggests a translation into Greek here of αγαθού (good one), which would change the interpretation a little, into something like a phrase for the kingdom of God. I don't necessarily agree with his suggestion, but I don't know of any better authority saying differently either. I h...
by davidmartin
Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:32 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: History trumps Theology
Replies: 52
Views: 349

Re: History trumps Theology

I don't do any history? Maybe check my posts over the last 10 years. he's yanking your chain.. imagine if you were the moderator of a forum. you'd do the same, don't worry about it my advice is to do the Indiana Jones thing, I mean if you feel you have a gun and he's just got a sword you can just s...
by davidmartin
Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:24 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?
Replies: 17
Views: 223

Re: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?

the best way to know who the gnostics were is from the gnostic texts i mean if you want to know what they are, just read their texts and go from there. problem solved ,right? why go off secondary sources when we have primary ones. what the church fathers thought of them is they are some screwballs t...
by davidmartin
Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:07 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?
Replies: 17
Views: 223

Re: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?

one problem is the gnostic texts in the NHL library fail to hat-tip Simon at all as their founder, and on the contrary some are seen to oppose him outright so far i've not seen anything that supports interpreting Simon as the founder of Gnosticism and that is not necessarily contra Irenaeus or the o...
by davidmartin
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:50 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is *Ev a source of the Gospel of the Ebionites?
Replies: 39
Views: 854

Re: Is *Ev a source of the Gospel of the Ebionites?

it cannot equally be known how these groups shaped the interreligious dynamics of early Christianity
why not?
by davidmartin
Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:49 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is *Ev a source of the Gospel of the Ebionites?
Replies: 39
Views: 854

Re: Is *Ev a source of the Gospel of the Ebionites?

In what way does Acts "judaize" Paul? Paul calls himself a Jew (Gal. 2:15: "We who are Jews by birth") and was willing to be Torah observant around Jews (1 Cor. 9:5: "To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law -t...
by davidmartin
Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:04 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Flaw with Marcion priority theory?
Replies: 17
Views: 553

Re: Flaw with Marcion priority theory?

Chrestus looks like a non-Jewish version of Wisdom I think the XS of the gospels is the power Jesus encounters and works with and the idea Jesus actually is XS was a slightly later development, and the epistles are located in this later stratum. The only problem is, it's utterly against the consensu...
by davidmartin
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:14 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is *Ev a source of the Gospel of the Ebionites?
Replies: 39
Views: 854

Re: Is *Ev a source of the Gospel of the Ebionites?

- Paul had a gospel that was judiazed
One can see this contrasting Acts with the Epistles
by davidmartin
Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:04 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is *Ev a source of the Gospel of the Ebionites?
Replies: 39
Views: 854

Re: Is *Ev a source of the Gospel of the Ebionites?

If so it's better to think of *Ev as a common gospel and not a Marcionite gospel, but one everyone made use of which fits the idea Marcion adopted it into his canon and didn't write it this is a general outline, we don't know exactly what was in it unfortunately i doubt its possible to know even bas...
by davidmartin
Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:41 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: "Q" comes form Marcion
Replies: 12
Views: 411

Re: "Q" comes form Marcion

TL;DR version: The Evangelion contains Double Tradition material. So what? It also contains Triple Tradition and Special Lukan material. which is what *ev prioritists see as the other gospels drawing from *ev you mention in a previous post the theory Marcion adopted a gospel that wasn't specificall...