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by Roger Pearse
Tue Sep 12, 2023 6:41 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Greek Text of Against Heresies Survived Until the 16th Century
Replies: 22
Views: 12795

Re: The Greek Text of Against Heresies Survived Until the 16th Century

https://www.tertullian.org/articles/zahn_irenaeus_eng.htm There are a number of lists of books, supposedly preserved in libraries in the early modern period. I faintly recall that all of these are fakes, again from that period. The theory is that they were produced by book dealers to entice western...
by Roger Pearse
Wed Oct 27, 2021 5:45 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Placement of the Gospels by the editor
Replies: 7
Views: 1934

Re: Placement of the Gospels by the editor

Thank you! I couldn't recall.
by Roger Pearse
Wed Oct 27, 2021 5:44 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Dave Allen: an analysis
Replies: 72
Views: 18198

Re: Dave Allen: an analysis

Hi Andrew,

I have no view on that - sorry. I merely didn't want to include Jerome in that general statement about later Greek versions.

Roger
by Roger Pearse
Wed Oct 27, 2021 5:42 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: New podcast advocating a 2nd century beginning for Christianity
Replies: 5
Views: 1278

Re: New podcast advocating a 2nd century beginning for Christianity

Will he also go with the idea that Jesus was not Jewish? After all, escaping from "Jesus the Jew" seems to be a strangely common outcome of much of the late 19th century German theories of this sort.
by Roger Pearse
Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:52 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Dave Allen: an analysis
Replies: 72
Views: 18198

Re: Dave Allen: an analysis

The webpage mentions an English translation of Meshchersky's study. What is the English title of this work? Translator? I have been unable to locate it by keyword searching in worldcat.org H. Leeming &c "Josephus' Jewish War and Its Slavonic Version: A Synoptic Comparison": 46 (Arbeit...
by Roger Pearse
Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:49 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Dave Allen: an analysis
Replies: 72
Views: 18198

Re: Dave Allen: an analysis

I am deeply dubious that any text of the TF survives that has *not* been influenced by the Eusebian version (with the obvious exception of Jerome's Latin version). All very flaky. Why do you make an exception of Jerome's Latin version of the Testimonium in De Viris Illustribus 13? Late Greek versio...
by Roger Pearse
Sat Oct 23, 2021 6:18 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Dave Allen: an analysis
Replies: 72
Views: 18198

Re: Dave Allen: an analysis

I will take the somewhat unusual step of agreeing with Roger on something to do with the Testimonium. In his mammoth study of the Slavonic Josephus, N.A. Meschersky's argued that work was composed by drawing out the material related to Josephus from the older and larger Slavonic Chronography, which...
by Roger Pearse
Sat Oct 23, 2021 5:15 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Dave Allen: an analysis
Replies: 72
Views: 18198

Re: Dave Allen: an analysis

I had thought the Old Slavonic "Josephus" was now definitely dead, as a source of truth about the TF, once the work was properly published and plainly an original medieval composition drawing on Malalas etc.
by Roger Pearse
Sat Oct 23, 2021 5:09 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Placement of the Gospels by the editor
Replies: 7
Views: 1934

Re: Placement of the Gospels by the editor

The high capacity parchment codex is invented perhaps around 300. Would a papyrus codex be large enough to contain all four gospels? I cannot recall if we have any examples.
by Roger Pearse
Wed Jan 01, 2020 3:34 pm
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: The Ploughman's Lunch fallacy.
Replies: 7
Views: 23003

Re: The Ploughman's Lunch fallacy.

I like the idea of calling this "the Ploughman's Lunch fallacy"! I had to point out to someone on twitter on the other day that some text was the first *surviving* gospel commentary; not necessarily or even probably the first one.