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- Tue Mar 15, 2016 5:07 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Barbara Thiering's work
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10083
Re: Barbara Thiering's work
. Barbara Thiering died 4 months ago, in November 2015, aged 85 - http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/academic-and-iconoclast-barbara-thiering-exemplified-tumultuous-1960s-ethos-20151203-glf9mk.html From wikipedia - ... she propounded a theory arguing that the miracles, including turning water...
- Tue Mar 15, 2016 4:47 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why Mark and Luke?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 17649
Re: Why Mark and Luke?
. According to Barbara Thiering - " ...when people were initiated as Christians their name was changed, to express the fact that they were now “born again” into a new symbolic family." https://www.peshertechnique.infinitesoulutions.com/index9.html That might account for Saul -> Paul (?) -...
- Tue Mar 15, 2016 3:57 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio, sedition, and Mark.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 31929
Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio, sedition, and Mark.
Some interesting commentary on "the flight to Pella" - http://www.preteristarchive.com/StudyAr ... light.html
- Tue Mar 15, 2016 3:52 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio, sedition, and Mark.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 31929
Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio, sedition, and Mark.
Do these things have to be a reference to the first Jewish-Roman war? Can they be a reference to other conflicts?Kunigunde Kreuzerin wrote: Personally I tend to think that the „flight to Pella“ is a late pious legend. If the church of Jerusalem took an active part in the first Jewish-Roman war, it would explain a lot.
- Mon Mar 14, 2016 2:07 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio, sedition, and Mark.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 31929
Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio, sedition, and Mark.
seditious elements were a fact of life under Roman occupation. The gospel writers could hardly ignore this fact setting, as they do, their story under Roman occupation. Yes, sedition would have been a part of life in many time periods. Some Gospel or some pericope writers could well have been remov...
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 4:19 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio, sedition, and Mark.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 31929
Re: Fernando Bermejo-Rubio, sedition, and Mark.
... must (at least some of) the material antedate the gospels ? From my perspective, if these materials do in fact run counter to authorial tendencies, then the author probably did not make them up; he or she probably inherited them in some form and did what he or she could with them. If, however, ...
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 2:01 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Matthean Priority or Markan Priority?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 22205
Re: Matthean Priority or Markan Priority?
I would probably belong to that group in a general way if, by "Ur-Gospel", one does not have to intend a single, unified text. I tend to think that gospel materials of some kind preceded our earliest extant gospel, which I take to be Mark. But I am still investigating all of that, and I a...
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 11:48 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Top suspects that could have invented the historical Jesus?
- Replies: 127
- Views: 107687
Re: Top suspects that could have invented the historical Jes
... I think anyone in any amount of academic study on Jesus historicity gets the jest of the appointed label in the core of its context. What core??! There are no criteria that meet suitable criteria for evidence for the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth - the only information is the books of the NT...
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 11:37 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Top suspects that could have invented the historical Jesus?
- Replies: 127
- Views: 107687
Re: Top suspects that could have invented the historical Jes
This is what is so unfortunate about the term 'mythicism.' Atheists want to stick the knife into religion. That's what prompts the preference for speaking in terms of 'myths' (= untruths). Yet many 'anti-mythicism-ists' seem to be atheist (or claim to be). This is unnecessary super-waffle - But 'my...
- Sat Mar 12, 2016 6:13 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Bernard's website: my answer to comments
- Replies: 179
- Views: 62466
Re: Bernard's website: my answer to comments
'Parallelomania' seems to be used to disparage propositions that various Christian texts or practices are similar to texts or practices in non-Christian scenarios. It has become a scholarly equivalent of a four letter word. It is used to insult, to dismiss, to ostracize, to avoid engagement. I agre...