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by MrMacSon
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:45 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Ian Mills's "external evidence" that Luke preceded Marcion
Replies: 18
Views: 364

Re: Ian Mills's "external evidence" that Luke preceded Marcion

5.5.1 Basilides of Alexandria Basilides of Alexandria is the earliest, easily datable author who knew and used Luke . 50 Jerome’s Latin translation of Eusebius’ Chronicon reports that Basilides lingered ( commoratur ) in Alexandria until 132 CE. 51 Since the heresiologists agree that he was a prede...
by MrMacSon
Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:00 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Two Powers in Heaven
Replies: 19
Views: 450

Re: Two Powers in Heaven

5 The Son of Man–Enoch in the Similitudes of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch The next prominent focal point of the Son of Man concept that originates from Daniel is in the so-called Similitudes ... part of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch and are dated by most scholars at around the turn of the first century ...
by MrMacSon
Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:46 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Melchizedek 11Q13
Replies: 8
Views: 236

Re: Melchizedek 11Q13

The Wikipedia entry for Melchizedek 11Q13 appears to give its full, albeit partly-reconstructed text from the 2003 edition of The complete Dead Sea scrolls in English by Géza Vermès (originally published in 1997). The Wikipedia entry notes (slightly modified here): [11Q13] mentions Melchizedek as le...
by MrMacSon
Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:08 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: My recreation of the opening of the First Gospel
Replies: 41
Views: 1347

Re: My recreation of the opening of the First Gospel

I get the impression that there was an early tradition of a John - probably [mostly] John, son of Zebedee - telling of a revelation from/by a Saviour/Christ/Jesus and of this eventually being usurped by [perhaps new] narratives about this Saviour-Christ or a Saviour-Jesus* +/- the Christ descending ...
by MrMacSon
Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:06 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: My recreation of the opening of the First Gospel
Replies: 41
Views: 1347

Re: My recreation of the opening of the First Gospel

The opening of Luke [ chapter 3 ] reads: 3 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, 2 during the high priest...
by MrMacSon
Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:39 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Meaning of παραδοθῆναι?
Replies: 11
Views: 301

Re: Meaning of παραδοθῆναι?

There are arguments that the John the Baptist passage in Antiquities 18 is a Christian interpolation, but that doesn't negate dabber's proposed relationship between the narrative therein - Ant . 18.116-9* - and the narrative in Mark 1 * esp. Ant 18.119: Accordingly John was sent as a prisoner, out o...
by MrMacSon
Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:01 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Meaning of παραδοθῆναι?
Replies: 11
Views: 301

Re: Meaning of παραδοθῆναι?

(This prologue to the main post herein, below the double lines, has been added in light of your most recent post preceding this one) 1Cor 5 :5 - . 5 you are to hand this man over [παραδοῦναι] to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved .. notice that Paul says to hand ...
by MrMacSon
Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:27 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Meaning of παραδοθῆναι?
Replies: 11
Views: 301

Re: Meaning of παραδοθῆναι?

παρέδωκα - paredōka - is a variant-version of Strongs 3860 - παραδίδωμι - paradidómi - https://biblehub.com/greek/3860.htm [As are παρέδωκεν (paredōken) and παρέδωκαν (paredōkan)] I presume you have or will see my previous post - above yours - https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=168684#...
by MrMacSon
Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:12 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Meaning of παραδοθῆναι?
Replies: 11
Views: 301

Re: Meaning of παραδοθῆναι?

παραδοθῆναι - paradothēnai - is also in Luke 24:7 - https://biblehub.com/greek/paradothe_nai_3860.htm That webpage refers to Strongs 3860 - παραδίδωμι - paradidómi - https://biblehub.com/greek/3860.htm all uses of παραδίδωμι - paradidómi - seem to be in G. Matthew there are many other occurrences of...
by MrMacSon
Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:21 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Two Powers in Heaven
Replies: 19
Views: 450

Re: Two Powers in Heaven

In chapter 4 of Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity , Schäfer discusses the so-called Daniel Apocryphon in a fragment of an Aramaic scroll found at Qumran & dated to the late Herodian period—ie., the last third of the first century BCE . Schäfer discusses various details of t...