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That does make sense, and I agree that "there is no prima facie expectation" that Yahwism would necessarily have to have the same mythos, particularly if this part is sound: This involves describing the departing of Ba'al and the response of the other gods in ways deliberately modeled on ...

Andrew, how do you reconcile the "great city" here being (apparently) Jerusalem when elsewhere in the book it is (apparently) Rome? I would distinguish Babylon the great city (Rome see for comparison 1 Peter 5:13) and Sodom the great city (Jerusalem see Isaiah 1:9-10 Jeremiah 23:10 ...). ...

I've been reading Drijvers on the Odes of Solomon He translates the passage in Ode 19 The Holy Spirit opened Her bosom, and mixed the milk of the two breasts of the Father. as The Holy Spirit opened Her womb, and mixed the milk of the two breasts of the Father. (The Syriac can mean either) and sees ...

in this case the Ode would be referring to the destruction of the Temple. Andrew Criddle But the context supports the former reading: 1) the destination of ''everything'' overwhelmed by the river is the temple as final place of worship of the One God. 2) Moreover, someone named Solomon, builder of ...

Rylands mentions this particular Ode: Ode 6 As the wind glides through the harp and the strings speak, So the Spirit of the Lord speaks through my members, and I speak through His love. For He destroys whatever is alien, and everything is of the Lord. For thus it was from the beginning, and will be...

I've been reading the primary texts (in translation) e.g. Hittite Myths by Hoffner. The basic argument that Mark Smith is making goes something like this. a/ In Bronze Age Syria Anatolia and Palestine there is a widespread myth in which a leading god typically the storm-god disappears, (sometimes af...

Revelation 11:8

and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.

Andrew Criddle

I can remember Carrier mentioning a possibility of the 500 in Corinthians being a textual corruption from something to do with Christ's appearance at the pentecost, because the words are somewhat similar and IIRC they show up at similar places in the order of resurrection appearances. Just wonderin...

Is it possible that Papias regarded Matthew as excessively paraphrastic (due to dodgy translation) but in chronological order ?
In that case Mark would be disordered due to having a different order to Matthew (regarded by Papias as chronologically sound).

Andrew Criddle

Some of the allusions in Justin Martyr are potentially linked to baptism or the eucharist.
Maybe Justin's church used a liturgy based (partly) on John's Gospel but Justin himself did not use the Gospel of John as scripture.

Andrew Criddle