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by spin
Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:24 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: book of enoch
Replies: 16
Views: 39367

Re: book of enoch

This o.p. for all intents and purposes seems like spam. richard allan ritter joined the forum a few minutes before posting to mention his own work. He doesn't even indicate why anyone should read it, let alone a link to it. Well, if anyone is interested in richard allan ritter's effort, try here . T...
by spin
Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:01 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: C.S. Lewis on anthropomorphic language
Replies: 27
Views: 58072

Re: C.S. Lewis on anthropomorphic language

You're the one asserting that it doesn't interest me Oh, so the subject does interest you then? You've already told me three times it does not. And of course you should know. I don't know why you feel you can assume it is of interest that someone in the 1940s made such an assertion or what relevanc...
by spin
Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:12 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Barbara Thiering's work
Replies: 6
Views: 10091

Re: Barbara Thiering's work

To sum Barbie in one word: eisegesis. (In another word for any Italians: cavolata.)
by spin
Wed Oct 09, 2013 2:42 am
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: C.S. Lewis on anthropomorphic language
Replies: 27
Views: 58072

Re: C.S. Lewis on anthropomorphic language

It's a bit hard, you know. One has to read it to find out where you were going. When you have read enough to know you aren't interested, then you can ignore it. It's really not that difficult... You published the stuff here. Live with the consequences. Right, you come into threads to say that the t...
by spin
Tue Oct 08, 2013 3:24 am
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: C.S. Lewis on anthropomorphic language
Replies: 27
Views: 58072

Re: C.S. Lewis on anthropomorphic language

It's a bit hard, you know. One has to read it to find out where you were going. When you have read enough to know you aren't interested, then you can ignore it. It's really not that difficult... You published the stuff here. Live with the consequences. So, even though you closed quotes which normal...
by spin
Tue Oct 08, 2013 12:40 am
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: C.S. Lewis on anthropomorphic language
Replies: 27
Views: 58072

Re: C.S. Lewis on anthropomorphic language

I don't know why you feel you can assume it is of interest that someone in the 1940s made such an assertion or what relevance it would have to anyone here. If you aren't interested in the thread, then just ignore it! Simples! :D It's a bit hard, you know. One has to read it to find out where you we...
by spin
Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:38 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Jesus' prediction of the destruction of the temple
Replies: 24
Views: 53591

Re: Jesus' prediction of the destruction of the temple

Well, it's also in Thomas 71 in a much more primitive form ("I will destroy this house and nobody will be able to rebuild it"), so that's a triple independent attestation. A guy was hiking in the hills with a hiking companion, when the companion, who'd gone off to have a piss, got bitten ...
by spin
Mon Oct 07, 2013 7:57 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: C.S. Lewis on anthropomorphic language
Replies: 27
Views: 58072

Re: C.S. Lewis on anthropomorphic language

I don't know why you are rehearsing ideas from a christian children's writer of the 1940s, perhaps other than he inspired a lot of nonsense in the minds of Britain's young and so remained in the imagination for a few generations. I don't know why you feel you can assume it is of interest that someon...
by spin
Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:09 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Are there examples of verbs being treated as nomina sacra?
Replies: 5
Views: 16392

Re: Are there examples of verbs being treated as nomina sacr

If you remember the crudful thread about the Dura Europos fragment, there is a nomen sacrum in that text ΣΤΑ which Kraeling argues was a verbal nomen sacrum, based on the existence of different verbal forms of σταυροω from Codex Bezae. He says on page 9 of his monograph: But it should be noted that ...
by spin
Sun Oct 06, 2013 11:56 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Christianity in Jewish literature
Replies: 20
Views: 31612

Christianity in Jewish literature

The presence of Jesus in Jewish literature--principally in the Babylonian Talmud under the name Yeshu ha-Notzri --is frequently mentioned in efforts to sustain the notion of the historicity of Jesus. It's a rather strange idea considering there are no references to Jesus in the Jerusalem Talmud, whe...