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Martin Hengel's Crucifixion in the Ancient World , which is available online, pretty much shows that we don't know anything about the exact manner a crucifixion might take. All those different styles of crucifix with those fancy-schmancy Latin names are not attested in ancient documents at all, not ...

Peter, is your pasted-in link to a JW bible? The Empathic Diaglott (that peculiar spelling is intentional) was a Greek-English Interlinear NT based on J J Griesbach's edition of the Greek NT (which was based on Vatican ms 1209 = Codex Vaticanus), published by Benjamin Wilson in 1864/1865. Wilson wa...

Paul Steven Dixon THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ANARTHROUS PREDICATE NOMINATIVE IN JOHN. A Thesis - PDF Wow, Dallas Theological Seminary (think Dan Wallace's "Evangelical Textual Criticism" website)! The author's a bit snarky, which is just fine with those types, since they know the only valid ...

The JW interpretation really shouldn't work even for them, because it implies polytheism. Then you must not know the JWs very well. An analogy might be to compare them to Arians. Arians had no trouble imagining the Father god created a son "out of nothing" to serve a special function for ...

You, sir, are a cad and a bounder! When you have time later today, perhaps you can fill out the list of translations each book contains, and provide the name of the translator, and while you're at it, dufus, why not also list the publication date for individual books? Regards, Your evil twin, Skippy...

I find the T shape the most plausible, more so then the X. the t, not so much. I prefer the I shape. Elegant in its simplicity. Anyone for a tree-like Y? It seems to me that an X or a † poses exactly the same problem, lap-notches would have to be cut into both posts to allow them to interface at th...

I have the CCEL version of Hendrickson reprints of the Ante Nicene Fathers and the Nicene & Post Nicene Fathers series of volumes, which captures most all early Christian Fathers through about 400 CE or so, in Bibleworks (ver 8) software, which is difficult to search (it's buggy). While CCEL doe...

KK, This story line kind of reminds me of the "palace revolt" of several eunuchs in Diocletian's household after he had published an edict that everyone had to offer sacrifice as a symbol of loyalty or face serious sanctions and penalties. The "revolt" was a fire at Diocletian's ...

Why do these scholars propose 250-350 as the earliest period for Coptic versions of the New Testament, then? Coptic is actually the alphabetic writing used by Egyptians to write their language (the most common dialects are Sahidic or Bohairic) starting about then. Up to the end of the 1st and into ...

I wonder if the codex might have been more durable [than a roll?], and particularly the vellum codex, made from animal skins (as might be suggested from the long life of some particular ancient vellum codices that are quite famous). WRT rolls, I would think that the repeated physical act of unrolli...