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DC, Here's another one for you: "Serenity now!" (It's busy at work tonight.) On another note, regarding the son of man = Michael idea, I was reading Schafer's review of Boyarin's The Jewish Gospels and noticed this statement: Boyarin dismisses the possibility that the Son of Man is a coll...

The Apocalypse of Peter exists partly in Greek in the "Ahmim fragment", and there is a later Arabic copy and an even later Ethiopic copy of the Arabic one. The Early Writings site has the Ahmim fragment and quotes from the relevant portions of the Ethiopic one. The editor, M. James, wrote...

Larry Hurtado's reading does seem clearly possible, which indicates how deeply ambiguous the ending of Mark at 16:8 is. It seems, from your words, that you are doing the following implication: the LH's reading is possible --> the ending at 16:8 is ambiguous. I agree and accept personally the premis...

The text in translation (Agapius Pseudo-Hegesippus) seems particularly uncontrolled. It might be better to limit the discussion to Greek sources only.

Andrew Criddle

Larry Hurtado's reading does seem clearly possible, which indicates how deeply ambiguous the ending of Mark at 16:8 is.

Andrew Criddle

FWIW Clement of Alexandria refers several times to κανὼν τῆς ἀληθείας See https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jxxNCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT444&lpg=PT444&dq=%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%BD%E1%BD%BC%CE%BD+%CF%84%E1%BF%86%CF%82+%E1%BC%80%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82+clement&source=bl&ots=VfUEV...

There's some interesting commentary/discussion by Lightfoot either side of the page that link goes to. On p.850 Lightfoot discusses Papias's mention of a Hebrew version of Matthew, and "the fact that St Matthew's Gospel is not an original but a translation." He then goes on to discuss how...

One of the most remarkable (and perhaps one of the most overlooked) things about this passage is the description of the five books of Papias as the "exoteric" books, which confirms a distinction between the "esoteric" and "exoteric" Christian teaching, for Papias, some...

After noting that science was not a high priority for early Xian theologians, RC pointed out that that can easily explain the decline of science and science education after the 4th cy., when Xianity was made the Roman Empire's official religion. It also did not help that not many people learned Gre...

I'm currently reading Images of Rebirth by Hugo Lundhaug. (About the Gospel of Philip and the Exegesis of the Soul ) I still don't find the post-baptismal chrismation in Philip stromg evidence in itself for a late date, but cumulatively I am convinced that the Gospel of Philip in its present form is...