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- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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
- 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
Do you wish to discuss any specific potential parallel ?
Andrew Criddle
- 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...