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by Irish1975
Sat Aug 19, 2023 7:39 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: 📣 Introducing a New Bible Conference Coordinated by Bart Ehrman
Replies: 11
Views: 14233

Re: 📣 Introducing a New Bible Conference Coordinated by Bart Ehrman

I can’t believe we’re so lucky to live in an age when the most brilliant and truthful scholars are so generous with their time, at such reasonable prices.

But as much as I love The Truth about Jesus, think I’ll hold out for the inevitable Caribbean Cruise.
by Irish1975
Sat Aug 19, 2023 7:32 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Using ChatGPT
Replies: 162
Views: 116662

Re: ChatGPT Did Irenaeus Write Adversus Marcionem?

The author Tertullian knew the writings of « Irenaeus, » and aped them.

So what? That’s how Christianity has always worked.
by Irish1975
Sat Aug 19, 2023 7:22 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
Replies: 14
Views: 27255

Re: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare

Here is one of the book reviews: https://slate.com/culture/2023/05/shakespeare-woman-authorship-question-truthers.html The reviewer’s hostility, distortions, and arrogance speaks for itself. He starts with a bang: « here’s what we KNOW about Shakespeare… » which instantly demonstrates that we don’t...
by Irish1975
Fri Aug 18, 2023 3:43 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Modern False Gnostic
Replies: 5
Views: 397

Re: Modern False Gnostic

They were in a backhanded way making an entirely different argument than modern scholarship understands it to be. They were only arguing for the primacy of the orthodox canon. Each Marcionite reading may or may not have been reflected in what Tertullian preserves. It's the primacy of the orthodox c...
by Irish1975
Wed Aug 16, 2023 3:37 pm
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
Replies: 14
Views: 27255

Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare

I am about 80% through this fascinating book— Elizabeth Winkler Shakespeare Was a Woman & Other Heresies Simon and Schuster, 2023 The blurb— The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English literatur...
by Irish1975
Tue Aug 15, 2023 3:43 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: BeDuhn's Greek Evangelion edition publicly archived
Replies: 61
Views: 4367

Re: BeDuhn's Greek Evangelion edition publicly archived

Epiphanius alleges numerous times that Marcion « added » this or that to the text of Luke . [/highlight] One has to wonder if the Marcionite Evangelion(s) in Epiphanius's time was/were different to the version(s) in the Irenaeus-Tertullian period Yes, it would be strange if their scriptures hadn’t ...
by Irish1975
Tue Aug 15, 2023 2:57 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: BeDuhn's Greek Evangelion edition publicly archived
Replies: 61
Views: 4367

Re: BeDuhn's Greek Evangelion edition publicly archived

BeDuhn is taking a consistent position. He means there aren't any peculiarly Marcionite pericopes in the way there are peculiarly Matthean and peculiarly Lukan pericopes among the synoptic gospels. The example of 'and destroying the law and the prophets' in Evangelion/Luke 23.2 is not actually an e...
by Irish1975
Sun Aug 13, 2023 5:46 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: BeDuhn's Greek Evangelion edition publicly archived
Replies: 61
Views: 4367

Re: BeDuhn's Greek Evangelion edition publicly archived

This work has been accepted for consideration at JOHD and is now going through the peer-review process. While their metadata will filter into catalogs eventually via OA indices, I thought members of this forum might like to know how to access and catalog the pre-prints in advance. By way of making ...
by Irish1975
Sat Aug 05, 2023 3:42 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: the spirit 2.0
Replies: 0
Views: 349

the spirit 2.0

In spite of great variety and imprecision with which the term pneuma is used in the NT, one cannot miss the stark contrast between spirit-as-against-flesh in Romans 8 and Galatians 5, on the one hand, and the narrative that we get in gJohn and Acts of “The Holy Spirit” as a subsequent emissary and m...
by Irish1975
Sat Aug 05, 2023 1:01 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: All christianity is “fundamentalism”
Replies: 5
Views: 12218

Re: All christianity is “fundamentalism”

A useful definition of christian fundamentalism would connect it with the rejection of Darwinian biology. Everything else is secondary.