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by nightshadetwine
Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:57 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Common themes found in the New Testament texts and other Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern stories
Replies: 14
Views: 443

Re: Common themes found in the New Testament texts and other Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern stories

Aristophanes' Frogs (Oxford University Press, 2013), Mark Griffith: Frogs is about art and politics: about good vs. bad tragedy, old vs. new, the value of the arts in general, the city of Athens and anxieties about its future. But it is also about the possibilities and nature of the afterlife; about...
by nightshadetwine
Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:56 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Common themes found in the New Testament texts and other Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern stories
Replies: 14
Views: 443

Re: Common themes found in the New Testament texts and other Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern stories

Dionysos (Routledge, 2006), Richard seaford: In Bacchae the opponent of the Dionysiac thiasos is an autocrat. Teiresias tries to persuade Pentheus to accept the new god by saying ‘you rejoice when a throng stands at the gates, and the polis magnifies the name of Pentheus; he too (i.e. Dionysos), I t...
by nightshadetwine
Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:55 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Common themes found in the New Testament texts and other Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern stories
Replies: 14
Views: 443

Re: Common themes found in the New Testament texts and other Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern stories

"The Baptismal Raising of Lazarus: A New Interpretation of John 11", Bernhard Lang, Novum Testamentum 58 (2016): Though well hidden, the theme of baptism informs the whole story of the raising of Lazarus (John 11). The note about Jesus’ sojourn at the very place where John the Baptist had ...
by nightshadetwine
Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:53 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Common themes found in the New Testament texts and other Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern stories
Replies: 14
Views: 443

Re: Common themes found in the New Testament texts and other Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern stories

"Mythical Repertoire and Its Functions in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses" by Maaike Zimmerman in Intende, Lector - Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel (Walter de Gruyter, 2013): Like the Greek Love Romances, Apuleius’ novel, too, is a tale in which an absence, a desire, is sp...
by nightshadetwine
Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:51 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Common themes found in the New Testament texts and other Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern stories
Replies: 14
Views: 443

Re: Common themes found in the New Testament texts and other Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern stories

The Formal Education of the Author of Luke-Acts (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Steve Reece: When I came to Paul’s speech to the Athenians on the Areopagus, I was surprised to discover him quoting a verse from the Phaenomena by the third-century BCE Cilician astronomer and poet Aratus... I found it utt...
by nightshadetwine
Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:50 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Common themes found in the New Testament texts and other Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern stories
Replies: 14
Views: 443

Common themes found in the New Testament texts and other Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern stories

As many of you already know, the texts of the New Testament contain common tropes and themes that are found in other Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern texts. I think it's important to be familiar with these texts in order to completely understand Christianity. Of course, the Hebrew scriptures are...
by nightshadetwine
Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:39 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Could the nomina sacra denote the presence of Jesus?
Replies: 10
Views: 289

Re: Could the nomina sacra denote the presence of Jesus?

Thank you for your vote of confidence. I have been out of this game for a few years and am trying to get back into it. Your posts are always a fun read just by how much information you drop in them. If you're not Boswell himself you sure pack a similar punch. lol I don't know what it is in modern b...
by nightshadetwine
Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:32 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Could the nomina sacra denote the presence of Jesus?
Replies: 10
Views: 289

Re: Could the nomina sacra denote the presence of Jesus?

Not sure if anyone here has this book https://www.amazon.com/YHWHs-Divine-Images-Cognitive-Approach/dp/162837439X the author did an interview with Mythvision podcast a couple years ago which I recently rewatched, and with all the talk around the nomina sacra I wanted to put up a thought for conside...
by nightshadetwine
Sun Dec 17, 2023 5:44 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The women watching at the crucifixion of Jesus in Mark 15:40-41
Replies: 47
Views: 73464

Re: The women watching at the crucifixion of Jesus in Mark 15:40-41

It is more likely that the original followers of Jesus believed that Jesus was resurrected and was the first of a universal resurrection that would end time. Yes, that is part of it. They were interacting with both Jewish and Greco-Roman concepts. Jews weren't expecting an individual to be the firs...
by nightshadetwine
Tue Nov 28, 2023 2:09 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The women watching at the crucifixion of Jesus in Mark 15:40-41
Replies: 47
Views: 73464

Re: The women watching at the crucifixion of Jesus in Mark 15:40-41

N.B. the imperial practice of seating statutes of reigning monarchs in the temples of greater gods, indeed at the right hand of the larger statue of that temple’s god. Esp. when the cult was taken to new levels with Hadrian. Right! I recently read some stuff by D. Clint Burnett. This idea of the ki...