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by andrewcriddle
Sat Apr 16, 2016 3:09 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: How Did Paul Know Jesus Was Resurrected?
Replies: 265
Views: 87379

Re: How Did Paul Know Jesus Was Resurrected?

The Marcionites understood another perfect world existed 'above the third heaven': After all, or, if you like, before all, since you have said that he has a creation of his own, and his own world, and his own sky; we shall see,185 indeed, about that third heaven, when we come to discuss even your o...
by andrewcriddle
Thu Apr 14, 2016 10:26 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Clement on the Dating of Paul's Ministry
Replies: 62
Views: 23242

Re: Clement on the Dating of Paul's Ministry

But isn't that just moving the goal posts to keep Clement within the fold? I don't think the ascension was dated forty days after originally. Acts is ignorable. The Marcionites didn't use Acts and Clement likely held views more in keep with Marcionism - i.e. a heavenly ascent immediately following ...
by andrewcriddle
Thu Apr 14, 2016 9:30 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Clement on the Dating of Paul's Ministry
Replies: 62
Views: 23242

Re: Clement on the Dating of Paul's Ministry

Another possibility is that Clement has a tradition in which the ascension is not dated forty days after the resurrection but considerably later.

Andrew Criddle
by andrewcriddle
Thu Apr 14, 2016 9:12 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Basilides
Replies: 12
Views: 20403

Re: Basilides

He appeared on earth as a man and performed miracles. Thus he himself did not suffer. Rather, a certain Simon of Cyrene was compelled to carry his cross for him. It was he who was ignorantly and erroneously crucified, being transfigured by him, so that he might be thought to be Jesus. Moreover, Jes...
by andrewcriddle
Mon Apr 11, 2016 9:37 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Clement on the Dating of Paul's Ministry
Replies: 62
Views: 23242

Re: Clement on the Dating of Paul's Ministry

We must know, then, that if Paul is' young in respect to time -- having flourished immediately after the Lord's ascension -- yet his writings depend on the Old Testament, breathing and speaking of them. For faith in Christ and the knowledge of the Gospel are the explanation and fulfilment of the la...
by andrewcriddle
Sat Apr 09, 2016 1:17 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Pseudo-Hegesippus and the TF
Replies: 46
Views: 36362

Re: Pseudo-Hegesippus and the TF

Andrew Criddle wrote There is no mention or allusion in the paraphrase of Josephus to the clause about Jesus he was the Christ You cut off your quotation one sentence too early. The next sentence reads: In quo Christi Iesu claruit aeterna potentia, quod eum etiam principes synagogae quem ad mortem ...
by andrewcriddle
Sat Apr 09, 2016 12:46 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Irenaeus Thought Clement was a Heretic
Replies: 17
Views: 11882

Re: Irenaeus Thought Clement was a Heretic

I don't think Irenaeus is flat out hostile to oral tradition as such, he is more concerned with arguing that the alleged traditions of his opponents are bogus. 1. When, however, they are confuted from the Scriptures, they turn round and accuse these same Scriptures, as if they were not correct, nor ...
by andrewcriddle
Thu Apr 07, 2016 9:46 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Pseudo-Hegesippus and the TF
Replies: 46
Views: 36362

Pseudo-Hegesippus and the TF

I feel like I should apologise for yet another thread on the TF but here goes anyway. Pseudo-Hegesippus writing about 370 CE is the earliest post-Eusebian witness to Josephus' supposed account of Jesus (the TF). . They indeed paid the punishments of their crimes, who after they had crucified Jesus t...
by andrewcriddle
Mon Apr 04, 2016 9:15 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The calming of the sea.
Replies: 52
Views: 23982

Re: The calming of the sea.

Do we really want to take Philostratus at his word? I noticed an article by Wannes Gyseunck & Kristoffel Demoen, 'Author and Narrator: Fiction and Metafiction in Philostratus’ Vita Apollonii' (in Theios Sophistes-Essays on Flavius Philostratus' Vita Apollonii, ed by Kristoffel Demoen & Dann...
by andrewcriddle
Mon Apr 04, 2016 9:05 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Those who swear by Yahweh and by their king.
Replies: 5
Views: 5392

Re: Those who swear by Yahweh and by their king.

Could the king-of-them mean the king of the host of heaven ?

Andrew Criddle