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by DCHindley
Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:46 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Mark's use of Philo
Replies: 43
Views: 1234

Re: Mark's use of Philo

Understanding narrative criticism was something I took a stab at over 10 years ago. The following is based mainly on Stephen D Moore 's Post Structuralism and the New Testament (1994). "in its more ambitious forms, [a Post Structuralist approach] attempts to analyze biblical texts as products o...
by DCHindley
Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:30 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
Replies: 109
Views: 4236

Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio

With the image of this coin on the left in mind, and if she was an actress, what CNN anchor has the perfect look to play Cleopatra in a film? Probably Erin Burnett, by far the sharpest pencil there, female or male.* DCH *Before starting on CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront (2011–present), she had worked ...
by DCHindley
Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:16 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Can We At Least Agree that the Marcionites Did Not Call Jesus "Christ"?
Replies: 25
Views: 580

Re: Can We At Least Agree that the Marcionites Did Not Call Jesus "Christ"?

Joseph, this is really ridiculous. Every day several Marcion threads are opened in this forum, the starting point of which is exactly the opposite. This forum has now become the Marcionite Speculations Forum. Sinouhe is right: some people here are really obsessed with Marcion. Not for StephenGorans...
by DCHindley
Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:55 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Did the ancient prophet Ezekiel tell the truth about Russ
Replies: 13
Views: 14666

Re: Did the ancient prophet Ezekiel tell the truth about Russ

In a full-scale nuclear exchange, approximately 91 mln people would be dead in a day or so. Ho-hum. Nobody wants that, even though it seems we continue to be stuck at 1 minute before midnight on the nuclear "clock" since the 1960s. Its one thing if serious reasonable leaders are in charge...
by DCHindley
Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:00 am
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Did the ancient prophet Ezekiel tell the truth about Russ
Replies: 13
Views: 14666

Re: The AntiChrist, Armageddon

oyVJsg0XIIk More nuclear war chatter from The Beast. Old news, how it ends https://www.icanw.org/new_study_on_us_russia_nuclear_war Used to pluck tracts from the brochure racks of this Fundamentalist church near my Jr college in 74/75, full of crazy interpretations of "end times prophecy,"...
by DCHindley
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:58 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Claudius was Jewish?
Replies: 10
Views: 537

Re: Salome

Salome, the Quintessential Jewish Whore Workbook, on the popularity of S. as Jewish name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(disciple)#:~:text=In%20John%2C%20three%2C%20or%20perhaps,thus%20making%20her%20Jesus%27%20aunt. You do know, of course (aaarrrrgggghhh!!!), that the popularity of the name ...
by DCHindley
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:39 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: What did Paul mean by brother(s) of the Lord?
Replies: 79
Views: 86430

Re: What did Paul mean by brother(s) of the Lord?

More generally, if some hypothetical anonymous scribe could think of the possible connection with the text in front of him to make this note, why couldn't Origen make the same connection working from memory? The note maker (if s/he existed) would have been honestly perplexed how the two passages co...
by DCHindley
Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:36 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Jesus’ Deification & Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Replies: 4
Views: 371

Re: Jesus’ Deification & Cognitive Dissonance Theory

Interestingly, I was surprised to learn that a significant article on Cognitive Dissonance and the development of early Christian belief was written by David Aune, "Christian Beginnings and Cognitive Dissonance Theory," in Gospel-Tradition-and-Paul-in-the-context-of-Jewish-and-Greco-Roman-...
by DCHindley
Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:12 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Who are scholars doubting the Historicity of Paul, and are any of them non-mythicists?
Replies: 3
Views: 211

Re: Who are scholars doubting the Historicity of Paul, and are any of them non-mythicists?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Detering is/was one of the most influential writers "sceptical of Paul's authorship of the Pauline epistles," but that isn't quite the same thing as "doubting the Historicity of Paul." Schweitzer discusses Dutch Radicals who thought all the ...
by DCHindley
Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:24 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
Replies: 72
Views: 134611

Re: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline

Your academic gung-fu is very good, Let me digest what you have there. It is nice to see at least one other member here who takes the time to slice and dice sources, including modern ones. You seem to like the tertiary works (like textbooks and academic publications) while I tend to favor the source...