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by Kunigunde Kreuzerin
Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:19 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Bethany.
Replies: 5
Views: 3098

Re: Bethany.

. Because Ben has done such a nice OP about Bethany here, I would like to add that imho Bethany is the main argument why "Secret Mark" was not written by Mark. Jerusalem, Bethany, Bethphage.jpg ... With these possibilities in mind, let us read the gospel texts which mention Bethany: Mark ...
by Kunigunde Kreuzerin
Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:51 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Basic reason why the name of Pilate was absent in the Earliest Passion Story extrapolated from Mark
Replies: 206
Views: 4647

Re: Basic reason why the name of Pilate was absent in the Earliest Passion Story extrapolated from Mark

Is it a coincidence the repeated emphasis on the verb "to release" in Mark: My point is that the insiders would have realized easily the irony. If for 4 times the verb "to release" is repeated, then by induction it would occur with a good probability also a fifth time by reading...
by Kunigunde Kreuzerin
Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:29 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: No ekklēsia in Mark?
Replies: 26
Views: 772

Re: No ekklēsia in Mark?

The Marcionites also used the word synagogue for their place of worship. when even them were partially judaized. I mean: do you believe really that in the fourth century (!) the Marcionites hated the demiurge with the same intensity they hated him in the second century? It is typical (but probably ...
by Kunigunde Kreuzerin
Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:47 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: No ekklēsia in Mark?
Replies: 26
Views: 772

Re: No ekklēsia in Mark?

The word synagōgēn is not used in any epistle except James, where amusingly it is translated as assembly. James 2:1 My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. 2 Suppose a man comes into your assembly [synagogue] wearing a gold ring and fine clothe...
by Kunigunde Kreuzerin
Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:43 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Bethany.
Replies: 5
Views: 3098

Re: Bethany.

For example, see what William Benjamin Smith wrote about Bethany: This Bethany is in the Syriac and therefore in the Aramaic Beth "ania" and this latter word has been variously interpreted incorrectly. The corresponding Hebrew stem recurs continually in the Old Testament in the primary se...
by Kunigunde Kreuzerin
Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:51 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Markus Vinzent's claim about Marcion
Replies: 52
Views: 23570

Re: Markus Vinzent's claim about Marcion

However, of course, I'm now out on a limb myself and don't consider any known Gospel to be the first narrative and am forced to work at trying to reconstruct hypothetical Gospels. I would really like to stop you from doing that. That's way too hypothetical. Many scholars attempted to reconstruct th...
by Kunigunde Kreuzerin
Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:36 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Richard Carrier against Trobisch and against Vinzent
Replies: 7
Views: 384

Re: Richard Carrier against Trobisch and against Vinzent

It seems to me that Carrier has not understood fully the my comment, so I have posted another comment, where I make it more clear what is the strongest argument for marcionite priority: the secrecy is peculiar to *Ev, while it is broken inexcusably by Mark precisely where the latter is disturbed by...
by Kunigunde Kreuzerin
Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:29 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Markus Vinzent's claim about Marcion
Replies: 52
Views: 23570

Re: Markus Vinzent's claim about Marcion

Tomorrow I will encourage a few female scholars to put forward the thesis that Mary Magdalene wrote the first gospel. We will prove this and reconstruct her oppressed gospel. I expect a similar “success” of this thesis, if not an even bigger one. Isn't it obvious, though? Mark 14:9 is Mary's self-i...
by Kunigunde Kreuzerin
Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:58 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
Replies: 120
Views: 4833

Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio

Does it matter that the exact position of Golgotha is unknown ? Well, over the years Christians have tried their uppermost to identify it’s position - in order to, as it were, venerate their saviour. But is that enough for an historian? Obviously not. I'm really amazed at what they've found ;) http...
by Kunigunde Kreuzerin
Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:39 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: No ekklēsia in Mark?
Replies: 26
Views: 772

Re: No ekklēsia in Mark?

It looks like Mark uses συναγωγὴν. I find this interesting because Paul never uses συναγωγὴν and Mark apparently never uses ἐκκλησίᾳ. I'm not sure what to think about that. Evidence that [the extant] G.Mark reflects "Judaising" ? Well, the only gospel that uses ἐκ κλησία ("the one ca...