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Thanks guys. I'll look into those recommendations.

I have basic knowledge of Justin Martyr picked up here and there but would like to have a good through understanding of this subject. A good solid book on him by a respected scholar would be nice.

Any suggestions?

Lane

It is the only verse among all where there is the word: O Lord. "My God, my God, why, O Lord , have you forsaken me?" (Mk 15:34). It was on the cross that he said these words, for he had departed from that place . http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gop.html What is then the function of "O Lor...

I'm saving him like a roll of bog paper for later in case of emergency.

Thanks for the heads up on jstor Ben!

You know... It occurres to me to wonder. Usually it is supposed that "Mark" was writing to groups of Christians, but what if s/he was just writing to one person? A patron perhaps, who was a fellow Christian follower of Paul's letters and had a library that included the LXX, works of Homer,...

I find myself wondering, Mark seems to have been added to as well as John and Luke. But what about Matthew? What is the general consensus concerning that text? If Matthew was written as a correction of Mark, then what would it matter if at some later date Matthew was additionally corrected? And if ...

I find myself wondering, Mark seems to have been added to as well as John and Luke. But what about Matthew? What is the general consensus concerning that text?

trying too hard to make sense of the apologetics and polemic ravings of Tertullian and his ilk. But what else is there? Is Acts really a superior source of information? Let me give you an example. I've read in various sources that one explanation for the Galatians-first canon in Irenaeus and Tertul...

Very interesting SA. I always wondered why that letter had no city named in it.

Yes, the districts existed, but the full thought originated with Andrew Criddle many moons ago, and it focuses on the way in which Paul refers to Achaea and Macedonia as distinct regions, with Corinth as a prominent place in Achaea in particular (refer to 2 Corinthians 9.1-2, for example), suggesti...