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by DCHindley
Mon May 18, 2015 5:54 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A lengthy note on Hebrews 7.14 (sprung from Judah).
Replies: 56
Views: 45439

Re: A lengthy note on Hebrews 7.14 (sprung from Judah).

When I reread sections of it recently, I wondered. It seems easier to square the text with a still-standing, still-functioning temple than to suppose it written soon after the temple's destruction. Obviously, an argument from silence, but still ... On the other hand, could it be some time after the...
by DCHindley
Mon May 18, 2015 5:42 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Origen 1, Scholars 0
Replies: 63
Views: 52683

Re: Origen 1, Scholars 0

Eusebius cites Hegesippus, but it is hard to tell when he is quoting verbatim (if he is), or paraphrasing Heg's actual words, or adding his own opinion to the words he does cite/paraphrase. In Eusebius' day, most folks didn't want Jesus to have physical relatives, just half brothers & sisters, i...
by DCHindley
Mon May 18, 2015 5:18 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Christianty's Syncretism
Replies: 9
Views: 4851

Re: Christianty's Syncretism

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DCH
by DCHindley
Mon May 18, 2015 5:02 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: early CE Dream-World
Replies: 22
Views: 12988

Re: early CE Dream-World

I get the impression it was a serious pursuit in those days. There are suggestions that some mystics, even in the 1st century CE, may have had "ascent" visions in which they would rise through the various heavens (or between defensive perimeters of a super sized castle encased by wall aft...
by DCHindley
Sun May 17, 2015 11:31 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: What do we know about EC writers?
Replies: 2
Views: 2762

Re: What do we know about EC writers?

Yo, Skipster, You could at least establish your own secret alias instead of using my avatar and membership. If it's good for Stephan Huller If it's good for Stephen Huller, If it's good for Stephen Huller, then its good enough for meeeeeee! But speaking of the likely source for Origen's idea that Jo...
by DCHindley
Sun May 17, 2015 11:08 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: What do we know about EC writers?
Replies: 2
Views: 2762

Re: What do we know about EC writers?

DCH (you ignorant dog), Why didn't you mention the other things Eusebius reports about Hegesippus? Is it because you are ignorant, or a dog? Hegesippus [/b] via Eusebius, Church History , 3.11.1-12.1 [/b] (CF-E EH3 11:1) 11:1 After the martyrdom of James and the conquest of Jerusalem which immediate...
by DCHindley
Sat May 16, 2015 7:04 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: What do we know about EC writers?
Replies: 2
Views: 2762

What do we know about EC writers?

I've been trying to keep up with the discussions about the TF, which rely heavily on conjectures about what early Christian writer Hegesippus, Origen and maybe Clement of Alexandria may have written. In the process, I have collected English translations of what fragments exist, and matched them with...
by DCHindley
Sat May 16, 2015 4:39 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Origen 1, Scholars 0
Replies: 63
Views: 52683

Re: Origen 1, Scholars 0

I would go beyond Painter here and suggest that the theological justification for the delay in punishing Jerusalem for killing the Christ of God is already there in the story Hegesippus relates, and even that it is very plausibly the reason that James came to be called “the Righteous One” in the se...
by DCHindley
Wed May 13, 2015 2:15 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Does anyone have access to Taylor & Francis articles?
Replies: 7
Views: 3528

Re: Does anyone have access to Taylor & Francis articles?

Yes, it's fine. I didn't turn up this article, but I did find this. http://www.academia.edu/2542254/Jesus_Refusal_To_Produce_a_Sign_Mk_8.11-13_ Peter, Jeffrey Gibson has written a whole book on the subject, drawing frequently from Linton's essay: Temptations of Jesus in Early Christianity (1995, th...
by DCHindley
Mon May 11, 2015 6:58 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: James ...
Replies: 34
Views: 16911

Re: James ...

[No, obviously he [SA/H] is right about that. I thought that was obvious enough, anyway, but I should have spelled it out. What's completely un-obvious is the idea that a name with a meaning, or with the meanings mentioned, " isn't a proper name ." The argument would then run: (1) If a 'n...