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- Wed Oct 30, 2013 11:51 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception (full text)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 31330
Re: The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception (full text)
Sadly, the book is utterly in competent. Well, I know you have worked at Qumran, so you are light years ahead of me, but, in my view, traveling in my one oared rowboat, their claims of Catholic interference ring true, when comparing, as they have pointed out, the prompt release of the Nag Hammadi m...
- Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:01 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Volunteer needed for proofreading the Latin of Irenaeus
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62836
Re: Volunteer needed for proofreading the Latin of Irenaeus
That sounds like fun. I had Latin in high school, a long long time ago. Yes, me too. However, unlike you, I remember nothing but the first half dozen words of J.Caesar concerning Gaul. Dementia is a terrible thing. I scanned the Latin text of both volumes of W. Wigan Harvey's SANCTI IRENAEI EPISCOP...
- Wed Oct 30, 2013 2:43 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: hypothesis about John the elder
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8346
Re: hypothesis about John the elder
Thanks for this link to your blog. I had not known of Polycrates, before reading the material at your link. You have provided some text from Ben Smith's site, but it is unclear to me, whether or not this Greek text is properly attributed to Polycrates, or instead represents Eusebius' description of ...
- Wed Oct 30, 2013 2:17 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception (full text)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 31330
Re: The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception (full text)
Thank you Joseph, for this link to a valuable resource. I find it both instructive, and interesting. Well done! 8 - The Dilemma for Christian Orthodoxy There is virtually unanimous agreement among all the concerned parties - apart, of course, from the international team themselves and the Ecole Bibl...
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:03 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Facts, Fiction, and Wishful thinking....
- Replies: 21
- Views: 37200
Re: Facts, Fiction, and Wishful thinking....
If we assume this parchment is a proto-Matthew writing, it means that this fact was deliberately cut out by later editors. Thank you Jay, well done, excellent work. I regret that I failed to consider the possibility that parchment 24 was not a fragment of Diatessaron, despite having read, yesterday...
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:11 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Facts, Fiction, and Wishful thinking....
- Replies: 21
- Views: 37200
Re: Facts, Fiction, and Wishful thinking....
In the middle of the third century Dura could bear witness only to the beliefs of Syria and, with the discovery at Dura of a fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron, probably only to Tatian's interpretation of the Gospels. Why? Why shouldn't they have had access to Paul's epistles? Why shouldn't they have...
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 5:39 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Propaganda War Against Mythicism [Vridar]
- Replies: 52
- Views: 87482
Re: The Propaganda War Against Mythicism [Vridar]
a real presence in this world, but his earthly body was an illusion. Very interesting misunderstanding of the word "real". We detect "reality", by means of sensory information, reaching the neocortex. If an object, "earthly body", or automobile, or diploma, or anything...
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:33 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Facts, Fiction, and Wishful thinking....
- Replies: 21
- Views: 37200
Facts, Fiction, and Wishful thinking....
The fact that a scrap of a gospel was found under a massive pile of debris at Dura Europos makes any further discussion... Most forum members, I am sure, both true believers, and skeptics alike, accept as accurate, and reliable, the above assertion, concerning Parchment 24 , a presumptive fragment ...
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 11:59 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A Study in 1 Clement
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16002
Re: A Study in 1 Clement
Thank you Peter. This is an important, and interesting topic, very appropriate for your new forum, and MANY thanks again, for giving us this precious gift. Roger Pearse has an excellent collection of manuscripts, and a great list identifying specific dates, by century, with "original" text...
- Thu Oct 24, 2013 2:22 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Is Jesus birth backdated 70 years from the Temple destructio
- Replies: 25
- Views: 45883
Re: Is Jesus birth backdated 70 years from the Temple destru
Thank you dewitness for a lucid, succinct, scholarly explanation of why Christianity is rooted in Judaism. I appreciate your effort to instruct me. Well done. My point is too simple, too elementary, too juvenile. I reduce the whole of Christianity, the entire "bible", i.e. new testament, t...