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by andrewcriddle
Mon May 01, 2017 4:10 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The ending of Mark (for Kunigunde).
Replies: 79
Views: 66122

Re: The ending of Mark (for Kunigunde).

c/ I have problems with an ending of Mark known to Luke and to the Johannine redactor and to the author of the Gospel of Peter but unknown to Matthew and lost from all surviving copies of Mark. Isn't this rather a strength of the proposal? I assume that our surviving text of gMark is closer to the ...
by andrewcriddle
Mon May 01, 2017 1:46 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The ending of Mark (for Kunigunde).
Replies: 79
Views: 66122

Re: The ending of Mark (for Kunigunde).

Hi Ben A few comments as I promised. The advantage of your idea is that as you say it resolves at one stroke various problems in the Gospel narratives as we have them. One issue that I don't think you specifically mentioned is that it gives the last words of Mark 16:8 They said nothing to anyone, be...
by andrewcriddle
Mon May 01, 2017 12:57 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Some unanswered questions from the gospels
Replies: 25
Views: 12000

Re: Some unanswered questions from the gospels

The well-known Creed-like resurrection narrative from 1 Corinthians 15 says: 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and...
by andrewcriddle
Sat Apr 29, 2017 5:26 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Eusebius Corrupted the Writings of Clement
Replies: 25
Views: 9466

Re: Eusebius Corrupted the Writings of Clement

Another interesting stretch of text is that section we have been examining is the portion later cited by Eusebius in his Preparation for the Gospel Book Ten which reads: 'THE subject has indeed been carefully discussed by Tatian in his Discourse to the Greeks, and by Cassian in the first book of hi...
by andrewcriddle
Sat Apr 29, 2017 5:16 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The ending of Mark (for Kunigunde).
Replies: 79
Views: 66122

Re: The ending of Mark (for Kunigunde).

Hi Ben IIUC you are proposing a scenario in which: a/ Mark originally had an ending similar to John 21. b/ Luke and the final redactor of John knew a version of Mark with this ending. c/ This ending had already been lost in the version of Mark known to Matthew. Am I right ? (If I am right I'll proba...
by andrewcriddle
Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:57 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Early to mid 2nd c. works on Christianity missing from our forum's website
Replies: 55
Views: 82161

Re: 101-150 AD works on Christianity listed by theme

rakovsky wrote:
andrewcriddle wrote:I noted you don't have the Nag Hammadi Gospel of Thomas on your list.

Andrew Criddle
Yes. It's in the 1st century list:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2786
Thanks
Andrew Criddle
by andrewcriddle
Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:46 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Early to mid 2nd c. works on Christianity missing from our forum's website
Replies: 55
Views: 82161

Re: 101-150 AD works on Christianity listed by theme

I noted you don't have the Nag Hammadi Gospel of Thomas on your list.

Andrew Criddle
by andrewcriddle
Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:43 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: What makes a writing "Fiction" versus "History"?
Replies: 299
Views: 168928

Re: What makes a writing "Fiction" versus "History"?

TRYING to return to the original post.

A few ancient works like Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius do seem to be fictional in our sense. They are clearly intended to be read as pure invention. However these works seem unusual and marginal in the ancient world.

Andrew Criddle
by andrewcriddle
Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:26 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: a possibility so remote that it deserves a little reflection
Replies: 129
Views: 110169

Re: a possibility so remote that it deserves a little reflec

The Christian material seems related to the (earlier) Stoic material Well of course. SOMEONE attempted to "riff" in Christian variations to the original material. That much is obvious. But why would it be Clement? Why in God's name would Clement have decided to falsify or "add Christ...
by andrewcriddle
Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:14 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: a possibility so remote that it deserves a little reflection
Replies: 129
Views: 110169

Re: a possibility so remote that it deserves a little reflec

But do you think that Clement scribbled additions between sections of Musonius? The authors have actually noticed what anyone can plainly see from the text - ie there is a patchwork of material some from a Stoic, some from a Christian. I think it's up to the rest of us to figure out how it got like...