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by Secret Alias
Thu Sep 01, 2016 8:11 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The 'Disarrangement' of Ancient Christian Texts
Replies: 10
Views: 9912

The 'Disarrangement' of Ancient Christian Texts

I have an emerging hypothesis which I think is more nuanced that a number of other 'conspiracy' type theories. I've brought it up in a number of threads. But I'd like to revisit the theory with a new discovery. 1. Someone or some people 'disarranged' not only the gospel but the Commentary on the gos...
by Secret Alias
Thu Sep 01, 2016 2:54 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A Critical Reconstruction of the Marcionite Gospel (Part 1)
Replies: 32
Views: 12679

Re: A Critical Reconstruction of the Marcionite Gospel (Part

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VO4R5IYGuZc/TeqGSigHpDI/AAAAAAAAMNU/-M94IstNotU/s1600/gerome%2Bsinai%2Bno%2B2.PNG And I know I obsess over this, but there really is nothing else to think about if you are into this stuff. Who was the god of the Jews? That guy on the mountain? Who was Jesus supposed to be ...
by Secret Alias
Thu Sep 01, 2016 1:17 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A Critical Reconstruction of the Marcionite Gospel (Part 1)
Replies: 32
Views: 12679

Re: A Critical Reconstruction of the Marcionite Gospel (Part

You are really stuck on monarchist and monotheist. That is not what I said. You don't have to say it. The implicit assumption is that (a) the Jews/orthodox Christians had one god and (b) the Marcionites 'reacted' against that 'one god' positing their own. But if (a) isn't true then (b) doesn't/can'...
by Secret Alias
Sun Aug 28, 2016 5:16 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17466

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

The diminutime ion is used in the gospel especially in the Syro-Phoenician woman story (= θυγάτριον, κυναρίοις).
by Secret Alias
Sat Aug 27, 2016 6:58 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17466

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

The author of the Shepherd - Hermas - was probably Hermogenes
by Secret Alias
Sat Aug 27, 2016 6:55 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17466

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

Hypocorism in Acts Priscilla (Acts 18:2, 18, 26); Prisca (1 Cor 16:19; Rom 16:3; 2 Tim 4:19) Sopater (Acts 20:4); Sosipater (Rom 16:21) Apollos (Acts 18:24; 19:1; 1 Cor 1:12; 3:4, 5, 6, 22; 4:6; 16:12; Tit 3:13); Apollonios Stephanas? (1 Cor 1:16; 16:15, 17) Epaphras (Philemon 23; Col 4:12); Epaphro...
by Secret Alias
Sat Aug 27, 2016 12:24 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17466

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

Nomion est un sobriquet en -ιων (de -iwon), dérivé de νομός le pâturage ou l' hypocoristique d'un nom composé comme Δημόνομος. Νομίων est attesté dans l'anthroponymie111 https://books.google.com/books?id=kZL1At2TMksC&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=%22Le+c%C3%B4t%C3%A9+caricatural+de+la+pr%C3%A9s...
by Secret Alias
Sat Aug 27, 2016 8:47 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17466

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

Mani as a hypocorism (probably derived from the title Menachem (paraclete) THE NAME “MANI” An almost exhaustive collection of the onomastic forms of the prophet’s name is given in Klíma (1962, pp. 260-70). Mani’s name is attested in Manichean Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, and Old Turkish texts ...
by Secret Alias
Sat Aug 27, 2016 8:31 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names
Replies: 46
Views: 17466

Re: Marcion and the Use of Diminutives With Saint Names

Hypocorisms in Jesus's description of his followers If, now, we ask why and with what meaning our Lord designated His disciples ‘these little ones,’ a twofold answer seems indicated. It is on the one side His chief Messianic designation of His followers: it is on the other side the chief of His hypo...