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by MrMacSon
Fri May 06, 2016 3:31 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Josephus’ Account of John the Baptist: Xian Interpolation?
Replies: 11
Views: 12021

Josephus’ Account of John the Baptist: Xian Interpolation?

. Rivka Nir (2012) 'Josephus’ Account of John the Baptist: A Christian Interpolation?' Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 10 ; pp.32–62 Abstract This essay provides fresh insight into the possibility that the passage in Josephus about John the Baptist ( Jewish Antiquitie s, 18.116-119) w...
by MrMacSon
Fri May 06, 2016 3:14 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: John the Baptist as a Foil for Jesus?
Replies: 36
Views: 16213

John the Baptist as a Foil for Jesus?

Does anyone have knowledge of this article? or commentary about it? - Fernando Bermejo-Rubio (2013) 'Why is John the Baptist Used as a Foil for Jesus? Leaps of Faith and Oblique Anti-Judaism in Contemporary Scholarship' Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Vol. 11, Issue 2; pp. 170–196. Abs...
by MrMacSon
Fri May 06, 2016 2:48 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Anti-Judaism and the Priority of John.
Replies: 23
Views: 9325

Re: Anti-Judaism and the Priority of John.

The Passion Narrative (best seen in the source underlying John) was written down immediately as a diary entry by John Mark. What information do you use to substantiate this assertion? The Signs Source was written in Greek shortly after 44 A. D. These were edited and added to by the Apostle John whi...
by MrMacSon
Fri May 06, 2016 2:47 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Anti-Judaism and the Priority of John.
Replies: 23
Views: 9325

Re: Anti-Judaism and the Priority of John.

outhouse wrote: Traditions regarding jesus, regardless of historicity, contradict each other.
Yes, b/c those traditions were developed over a long period of time in a soup of many different and competing traditions
by MrMacSon
Fri May 06, 2016 2:08 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Anti-Judaism and the Priority of John.
Replies: 23
Views: 9325

Re: Anti-Judaism and the Priority of John.

in John - We see outright contradictions, as this theological piece came from communities who had a long history of tradition in their community, that were vastly different from the few who shared gospel traditions. The traditions in John existed before the gospels were even written. Yes, gnostic o...
by MrMacSon
Fri May 06, 2016 2:02 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: the Christian Church Fathers with texts to 155 AD/CE
Replies: 72
Views: 27510

Re: the Christian Church Fathers with texts to 155 AD/CE

So, funny enough, you could probably just cut out the period from the [First] Jewish War to the Bar Kokhba revolt from Christian history and not lose much, although this is the period where the NT texts were most probably written according to mainstream scholarship. We know a few events form the Fi...
by MrMacSon
Thu May 05, 2016 11:48 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: An Early 2nd Century Txt Ignores Peter and Paul in Jerusalem
Replies: 13
Views: 5511

Re: Paul and Peter Collated the Written Gospel Together in J

An ignored testimony from the Preaching of Paul 1 (mentioned in the Anonymous Treatise on Baptism 2 ) understands Galatians "gospel" in chapters 1 and 2 to be a written gospel: Also, that when He was baptized, fire was seen to be upon the water, which is written in neither of the Gospels....
by MrMacSon
Thu May 05, 2016 8:59 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Ascension of Isaiah revisited
Replies: 8
Views: 3546

Re: Ascension of Isaiah revisited

At Vridar.org - In this post and the next I am going to discuss the possibility that Simon/Paul derived his gospel initially from the Vision of Isaiah and that in its original form it possessed a Son of God who descended to Judaea for only a few hours. I suspect the Vision depicted a Son who, having...
by MrMacSon
Thu May 05, 2016 8:39 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: the Christian Church Fathers with texts to 155 AD/CE
Replies: 72
Views: 27510

Re: the Christian Church Fathers with texts to 155 AD/CE

I believe hardly any - if any - Christian documents were written before near the end of the 1st century not even the extant Pauline epistles not even extant gMark All Christian narratives are likely to just be set in the early 1st century: they borrow from mid 1st-century events, or later events an...
by MrMacSon
Thu May 05, 2016 12:13 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is Acts the 1st Entirely Spurious Historical Pseudepigrapha?
Replies: 80
Views: 30474

Re: Is Acts the 1st Entirely Spurious Historical Pseudepigra

One problem with regarding Apocalypse of Peter as prior to the Synoptics here is that it seems to have closer parallels with Matthew than with Mark or Luke. Influence of Matthew Perhaps Matthew (and Luke) used the Apocalypse of Peter(?), and Massaux distinguishes between the Greek and Ethiopic vers...