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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:08 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: back to the drawing board? the missing sondergut Marcion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 625
Re: back to the drawing board? the missing sondergut Marcion
Marcion thought Paul wrote a gospel which began with Mark 1:1. That's interesting. I'm down for the idea that Marcion thought Paul wrote a gospel, although I might introduce the variant here that Marcion considered Mark to be Paul's amenuensis for the gospel. But did it start with "the beginni...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
- Replies: 28
- Views: 701
Re: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
The methodology of biblical research cannot answer solely on the basis of the text whether the tradition described therein is historical or invented. This is exactly as historical methodology cannot exclude the existence of a person about whom there is written testimony. The insurmountable limit of...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:32 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: back to the drawing board? the missing sondergut Marcion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 625
Re: back to the drawing board? the missing sondergut Marcion
Maybe Marcion's gospel really is just a mashup of synoptic verses, almost nothing original, and that's that.
Any objections?
Any objections?
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A Comment on Daniel McClellan's On Going Social Media Efforts
- Replies: 17
- Views: 285
Re: A Comment on Daniel McClellan's On Going Social Media Efforts
You may be rediscovering a widely accepted idea here?
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A Comment on Daniel McClellan's On Going Social Media Efforts
- Replies: 17
- Views: 285
Re: A Comment on Daniel McClellan's On Going Social Media Efforts
Sure, ok, the hints on Paul's "opponents" can suggest diversity.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:09 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A Comment on Daniel McClellan's On Going Social Media Efforts
- Replies: 17
- Views: 285
Re: A Comment on Daniel McClellan's On Going Social Media Efforts
Okay I might have missed the argument then.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:06 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A Comment on Daniel McClellan's On Going Social Media Efforts
- Replies: 17
- Views: 285
Re: A Comment on Daniel McClellan's On Going Social Media Efforts
Well, I never heard of someone losing their faith because of how much effort they put into celebrating at worship, how much time they spent praying, or how much they gave to the poor. So maybe you have a point?
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
- Replies: 28
- Views: 701
Re: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
So how are you 'helping' here?
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
- Replies: 28
- Views: 701
Re: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
A common issue is making inferences without any controls. So are the letters of Paul too incoherent to have one author? Okay, that might be an argument. Which authors were used as controls to test the hypothesis of coherence? And have those authors been put through the same wringer to try to produce...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
- Replies: 28
- Views: 701
Re: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
Put this together with the suspiciously round number of 7 epistles in the earliest collections, and perhaps we can conclude that making up fake letters by Paul has been a thing since the earliest collections we know anything about. I can suggest that Ephesians, when added to the archetype (= from w...