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Another point of contact between the Pauline letters and the pre-70 AD period occurs in 2 Cor 12:31-33, which has the passage about Paul being let down in a basket through a window in the wall to escape the "ethnarch under King Aretas," the last known Nabatean king by this name having die...

You've reminded me of a scene from Fellini's Satyricon, close to the beginning where the protagonist is walking along an internal colonnade that passed rooms in a huge building and in each room there is a separate scene, a sort of tableau of life in the space, prostitutes, families, all sorts of oth...

Beside the common misunderstanding of Gal 1:19 (which certainly does not say that James was the brother of Jesus), you are outlining Paul's ontology, which in itself says nothing about the historicity of Jesus.. How can you be so sure its 100% ontology? The statement you respond to and the answer t...

With an outlook as depressing as the one you've expressed here, Stephan, you make me wonder why you chose to thrust your genes forward. In what era before the present could you have had both the contemplative life and the family life? The contemplative life requires a certain education, not obtainab...

In which ways do you consider christianity influences society today, from the smallest influences to the biggest? As a small example, for various reasons it is the norm in modern scholarly works of ancient history and biblical studies to use BCE (before the common era) and CE (common era) rather tha...

The word θυσιαστηριον can be found in Jdg 2:2 for the altars of the inhabitants of the land. In Jdg 6:28, 30-32 it's an altar of Baal, also in 1 Kgs 16:32, 18:26, 2 Kgs 11:18. In 2 Kgs 21:5 it's an altar to all the powers of heaven. I noted in my reply to Jay that θυσιαστηριον is occasionally used ...

But I was so fond of the anagram! ("General Religious Discussion") Pretty good... and I certainly didn't notice it. Maybe if you called it "General Religious Discussion" and use "or, for the perverse, General Soul-Sung Idiocies, Sir. Talk about religious issues here." ...

Peter Kirby wrote:Παύλου

Interesting that the Greek lost the doubling here. Obviously the name is Paullus, as it appears in Latin.

Is it true that Paulus is a previously unknown name ? Mea culpa. Please forgive me. I have found examples in Plutarch. Paul is not a previously unknown name. :tombstone: It appears in Plutarch as a Latin "gens" name; presumably as a regular name elsewhere, I am not sure. I made the mistak...

I realize this is a benevolent dictatorship and the power that be has decided on the name of this forum, but if I grovel for a few moments can I appeal to the power that be for a more intellectually neutral forum name? "General Soul-Sung Idiocies, Sir" is not going to get a lot of likes on...