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by andrewcriddle
Sat Nov 26, 2016 2:25 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Paul’s Jesus --- Man or Myth ?
Replies: 22
Views: 12079

Re: Paul’s Jesus --- Man or Myth ?

a question, please: are you sure that, in the passage of Clement quoted by you, the words ''before Jerusalem was founded'' are alluding to ''his resurrection and assumption'' etc (actions of Jesus ) and not instead to the finding of prophecies in the old books ? Thanks in advance. FWIW there is a d...
by andrewcriddle
Wed Nov 23, 2016 12:30 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Mark, memory and an empty tomb
Replies: 28
Views: 12631

Re: Mark, memory and an empty tomb

Another brief sideline note. The connections between the young man and Christian baptism are tantalizing insofar as they would seem to answer some pressing questions but also to raise more questions, especially regarding the subtlety of some of the connections: how could the average ancient reader,...
by andrewcriddle
Thu Nov 17, 2016 10:57 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Did Epiphanius Identify James as the Naked from Hegesippus?
Replies: 21
Views: 9181

Re: Did Epiphanius Identify James as the Naked from Hegesipp

Andrew, I don't think Epiphanius is saying the naked youth is like James. Epiphanius is saying the naked youth is James. The words used by Epiphanius could mean either. However, since the second option seems to contradict other views held by Epiphanius, (i.e. the age of James), we should probably p...
by andrewcriddle
Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:40 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Did Epiphanius Identify James as the Naked from Hegesippus?
Replies: 21
Views: 9181

Re: Did Epiphanius Identify James as the Naked from Hegesipp

From Eusebius: And so he suffered martyrdom; and they buried him on the spot, and the pillar erected to his memory still remains, close by the temple. This man was a true witness to both Jews and Greeks that Jesus is the Christ. And shortly after Vespasian besieged Judaea, taking them captive. It h...
by andrewcriddle
Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:22 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Did Epiphanius Identify James as the Naked from Hegesippus?
Replies: 21
Views: 9181

Re: Did Epiphanius Identify James as the Naked from Hegesipp

I don't think Epiphanius is identifying James with the young man in Mark 14:51-52. (Epiphanius believes James died at 96 which would make him too old to be a young man when Jesus was arrested.) I think Epiphanius just means that James was generally dressed as scantily as the young man in Mark. Andre...
by andrewcriddle
Tue Nov 08, 2016 12:01 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: More Proof that Tertullian Was Copying Irenaeus
Replies: 103
Views: 45944

Re: More Proof that Tertullian Was Copying Irenaeus

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 1.21: Flavius Josephus the Jew, who composed the history of the Jews, computing the periods, says that from Moses to David were five hundred and eighty-five years; from David to the second year of Vespasian, a thousand one hundred and seventy-nine; then from that to ...
by andrewcriddle
Tue Nov 08, 2016 11:22 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Against Paul as the Name of the Apostle
Replies: 44
Views: 11945

Re: Against Paul as the Name of the Apostle

Yes, watching Harry Potter. Ignore that. This is perplexing too: Even Genesis long ago promised Paul to me. Among those figures and prophetical blessings over his sons, when Jacob had got to Benjamin he said, Benjamin is a ravening wolf: until morning he will still devour, and in the evening will d...
by andrewcriddle
Fri Nov 04, 2016 12:03 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Bible's relation to earlier Pagan traditions
Replies: 7
Views: 5631

Re: The Bible's relation to earlier Pagan traditions

By careful selection one can generate a composite picture of the ancient dying-and-rising god which seems to have striking resemblances to Christianity. It is much more difficult to do this by comparing a specific example, (e.g. Attis and Cybele in the 1st century CE), to Christianity. Andrew Criddle
by andrewcriddle
Thu Nov 03, 2016 12:17 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Bible's relation to earlier Pagan traditions
Replies: 7
Views: 5631

Re: The Bible's relation to earlier Pagan traditions

One issue is that some of the allegedly parallel Pagan traditions are not clearly pre-Christian.

Do you wish to discuss any specific potential parallel ?

Andrew Criddle
by andrewcriddle
Tue Nov 01, 2016 1:03 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Replies: 39
Views: 32868

Re: Church of the Holy Sepulchre

I'm interested in how far back the tradition goes so if it goes no further back than Helena's claims, that would be significant to me. If it goes further back than I see those claims as largely if not completely irrelevant. Our earliest account is Eusebius Life of Constantine it appears to imply th...